Pan American Clippers

Author: James Trautman
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 9780228102304
Category : TRANSPORTATION
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Illustrated with rare period photographs, vintage travel posters, magazine ads and colorful company brochures, Pan American Clippers covers every aspect of the era of flying boats, from 1931-1946. Trautman explains PanAm's founding and growth, their wartime activities, and the design choices that made the company a symbol of luxury. "--

Wings to the Orient

Author: Stan Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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China Clipper

Author: Robert Gandt
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612514243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an instant celebrity. This lively history by Robert Gandt traces the development of the great flying boats as both a triumph of technology and a stirring human drama. He examines the political, military, and economic forces that drove its development and explains the aeronautical advances that made the aircraft possible. To fully document the story he includes interviews with flying boat pioneers and a dynamic collection of photographs, charts, and cutaway illustrations.

China Clipper

Author: Ronald W. Jackson
Publisher: W. Clement Stone
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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The China Clipper, Pan American Airways and Popular Culture

Author: Larry Weirather
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
"The book discusses strategies used to represent the clipper as a paragon of U.S. interests, values and beliefs. The main focus of the work is the variety of ways this iconographic status manifested itself through toys, movies, pulp fiction, comic books and music. An appendix explains different models of the clipper flying boats"--Provided by publisher.

Night over Water

Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110112668X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes to the skies in this classic novel of international suspense. Set in the early days of World War II, Night over Water captures the daring and desperation of ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances—in prose as compelling as history itself. . . . September 1939. England is at war with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world's most luxurious airliner—the legendary Pan Am Clipper—takes off for its final flight to neutral America. Aboard are the cream of society and the dregs of humanity, all fleeing the war for reasons of their own . . . shadowed by a danger they do not know exists . . . and heading straight into a storm of violence, intrigue, and betrayal. . . .

The Long Way Home - Revised Edition

Author: MR Ed Dover
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615214726
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
"...the story of the Pacific Clipper, a B-314 caught between Noumea, New Caledonia and Auckland, New Zealand at the outbreak of World War II and ordered to return home by flying west around the world in radio silence to avoid capture or destruction by enemy forces."--P. [4] of cover.

The Pan Am Clipper

Author: Roy Allen
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
ISBN: 1782747834
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
The Pan Am Clippers were probably the most romantic planes ever built. The experience of flying in them was intended to rival the great ocean liners. Illustrated with more than 100 archive photographs, this impressive book is a tribute to a technical wonder that continues to fascinate and captivate many people today.

Pacific Clipper

Author: Albert S. J. Tucker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970965806
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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The Pan Am Clipper

Author: Roy Allen
Publisher: Amber Books
ISBN: 9781782746355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The history of Pan American Airways is, to a great degree, the story of international air transport and, within that, the flying-boat is one of the airliner's most recognizable aircraft. The Pan Am Clippers, as the Boeing B-314s, Sikorskys and Martin M-130s were known, were probably the most romantic planes ever built. The experience of flying in them was intended to rival the great ocean liners that had previously been the only way for passengers to cross the globe. Sleeping berths, lounges, silver goblets and meals on real china served by white-coated stewards were all part of the Clipper experience. The Pan Am Clipper covers one of aviation history's most inspiring and magical periods. Illustrated with more than 100 archive photographs, this impressive book is a tribute to a technical wonder that continues to fascinate and captivate many people today.