The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a large long-range airliner developed from the C-97 Stratofreighter military transport, itself a derivative of the B-29...
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Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, a transoceanic airliner that could be fitted with sleeper cabins and featured a lower deck lounge. The first Stratocruiser flew...
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codes were used by Boeing Commercial Airplanes to denote the original customer for airframes produced as part of Boeing's 377 Stratocruiser and later 7x7 families...
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Corporation Boeing 377 Stratocruiser crashed on landing at Prestwick Airport, Scotland; 28 of the 36 on board were killed. The Stratocruiser was on a flight...
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piston-engined Boeing 377 Stratocruisers in favor of the newer jet-engined airliners. Aircraft broker Leo Mansdorf was stockpiling surplus Stratocruisers at Van...
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Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy (category Boeing B-29 Superfortress)
ceiling: 20,000 ft (6,100 m) Related development Boeing B-29 Superfortress Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy Aero Spacelines Super...
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Aero Spacelines Super Guppy (category Boeing B-29 Superfortress)
Power/mass: 0.11 hp/lb (0.18 kW/kg) Related development Boeing B-29 Superfortress Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy Aero Spacelines Mini...
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Pan Am Flight 202 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 377)
Pan American World Airways Flight 202 was a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser aircraft that crashed in the Amazon Basin about 281 nautical miles (320 mi; 520 km)...
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people lost their jobs at Boeing.[citation needed] The company aimed to recover quickly by selling its Stratocruiser (the Model 377), a luxurious four-engine...
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Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy – Outsize cargo conversion of the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Aero Spacelines Super Guppy – Turboprop conversion and enlarged...
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Pan Am Flight 6 (redirect from Pan American Stratocruiser Flight 943)
trip. On the evening of October 15 the flight left Honolulu on a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Clipper named Sovereign Of The Skies (Pan Am fleet number 943,...
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the Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser. This bomber-to-airliner derivation was similar to the B-17/Model 307 evolution. In 1948, Boeing introduced the KB-29...
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In the 1960s, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) opted to utilize its Boeing 377 Stratocruiser cargo transports, which were capable of long-range flights, to...
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Pan Am Flight 7 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 377)
operated by Pan American World Airways. On November 8, 1957, the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-29 serving the flight, named Clipper Romance of the Skies, crashed...
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Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 377)
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2 was a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser aircraft that was ditched into Puget Sound, just off Maury Island at the Point Robinson...
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from Boeing through April 2023 Boeing 7x7 series Boeing 707 Boeing 717 Boeing 727 Boeing 737 Boeing 747 Boeing 757 Boeing 767 Boeing 777 Boeing 787 Dreamliner...
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Boeing 737-700 Boeing 737-800 Boeing 737-900 Boeing 737-900ER Boeing 737 MAX 8 Boeing 737 MAX 9 Boeing 757-200 Boeing 757-300 Boeing 767-300ER Boeing...
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failure; 52 of 69 on board die. April 29 – Pan Am Flight 202, a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, broke up in mid-air and crashed after a possible engine separation...
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World Airways (Pan Am) was operating weekly nonstop Boeing 377 Stratocruiser service from Boeing Field nonstop to Honolulu with this flight continuing...
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Constellations were supplemented and then largely replaced by Boeing 377 Stratocruisers, the first AOA service by the type being on 17 August that year...
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(1946–51) Avro York (1944–57) Boeing 314A Clipper (1941–48) Boeing 377 Stratocruiser (1949–60) Boeing 707-300 & -400 (1960–74) Boeing 747-100 (1969–74) Bristol...
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Retrieved 16 February 2021. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-26 N1032V Oregon, USA". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 11 August...
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25 lb/hp (6.23 kg/kW) cruise Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Renard R.35 (first airliner with a pressurized cabin) Related development Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Aircraft...
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000 ft (9,100 m) Related development Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Boeing B-50 Superfortress Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy Aero...
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Anak – conversions done to several ex-Pan American World Airways Boeing 377 Stratocruiser airliners into heavy lift military cargo aircraft after the United...
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transported upon long range pressurized propliners such as the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation and Lockheed L-1649 Starliner...
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weapons. Aerial refueling Related development Boeing B-29 Superfortress Boeing B-54 Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Tupolev Tu-4 Aircraft...
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continuing through the 1990s, twin engine narrow-body aircraft, such as the Boeing 737 Classic, McDonnell-Douglas MD-80 and Airbus A320 were primarily employed...
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such as the B-50 Superfortress, the KC-97 Stratofreighter, the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, the Lockheed Constellation, and the C-124 Globemaster II. In the...
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the local radio station KIBS. By 1956, Pan Am was operating a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser service into the airport from Los Angeles and San Francisco, via...
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