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    The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941. One of the largest aircraft of its time, it had the...
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    The Pacific Clipper (civil registration NC18602) was an American Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat, famous for having completed an unplanned nearly around-the-world...
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  • The Dixie Clipper (civil registration NC18605) was an American Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat, best known for in June 1939 beginning the first scheduled...
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  • Clipper, now named AQUAMAN Splashdown, a hydroflume amusement park ride at Six Flags Great America Yankee Clipper, a Pan American Airways Boeing 314 Clipper...
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  • ice hockey team Boeing 314 Clipper, a Pan Am and BOAC (British Airways) flying boat Boeing C-40 Clipper, a military version of the Boeing 737-700C airline...
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    The Yankee Clipper (civil registration NC18603) was an American Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat, best known for on 20 May 1939 beginning the first scheduled...
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    Pan Am President Juan Trippe's high regard for Boeing after their success with the Boeing 314 Clipper, Pan Am was confident in ordering the expensive...
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    Honolulu Clipper was the prototype Boeing 314 flying boat designed for Pan American Airways. It entered service in 1939 flying trans-Pacific routes. Like...
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    third deck for cargo. Many early flying boat airliners, such as the Boeing 314 Clipper and Short Sandringham, had two decks. Following World War II, the...
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    Clipper (NC-14716) October 1935 Philippine Clipper (NC-14715) November 1935 Hawaii Clipper (NC-14714) March 1936 Later the larger Boeing 314 Clipper flying...
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    river, lake or coastal stations to refuel and resupply. The Pan Am Boeing 314 "Clipper" flying boats brought new exotic destinations like the Far East within...
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  • Airport; all 12 on board survived. November 4, 1945 Honolulu Clipper, the prototype Boeing 314 Clipper, force-landed in the Pacific, 625 miles off Hawaii following...
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  • 1935, Boeing drafted several configurations of aircraft loosely based on both the Boeing XB-15 research and experience with the Boeing 314 Clipper aircraft...
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    carry passengers on transoceanic routes. The first flight of the Boeing 314 Clipper was in June 1938. It was the largest civil aircraft of its time, with...
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    model produced and assembled at the Boeing Plant 1 site was the 314 Clipper. Through its production run the 314, a large seaplane, was assembled on the...
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    Pan Am (redirect from Pan Am Clipper)
    Six large, long-range Boeing 314 flying boats were delivered to Pan Am in early 1939. On March 30, 1939, the Yankee Clipper, piloted by Harold E. Gray...
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    Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme. On 12 July 1940, Pan Am Airways' American Clipper landed at Canton Island for the first time during a flight from Honolulu...
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  • 314 may refer to: The year 314 or year 314 BC 314 (number) Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing. 314 Rosalia is...
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    in length and weighed in at 57,500 lb (26,100 kg) for takeoff. The Boeing 314 Clipper was larger and had more powerful Wright Twin Cyclones of 1,600 horsepower...
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    navigator aboard China Clipper during the initial airmail flight. Boeing 314 flying boats Honolulu Clipper (NC18601) and California Clipper (NC18602) joined...
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  • fighter Boeing PB Flying Fortress - Heavy bomber Boeing P2B Superfortress - Heavy bomber Boeing 314 Clipper - Impressed flying boat transport Boeing XF8B...
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    commercial transatlantic passenger service: Pan American Boeing 314 Clipper Yankee Clipper flying boats made the first scheduled commercial flight between...
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    were flown as the China Clipper, Philippine Clipper and Hawaii Clipper. Pan Am rejected the M-156 in preference to the Boeing 314 for its replacement. Pan...
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    Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Blohm & Voss BV 222 Boeing 314 Clipper Consolidated PB2Y Coronado Martin PBM Mariner Short Sunderland Short...
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    commenced on 12 July 1940 with the Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat aircraft. On 4 December 1941, the Pacific Clipper departed Kanton for New Caledonia as...
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    GR-2600-A71 - 1,300 hp (969 kW) GR-2600-C14 - 1,750 hp (1,304 kW) Boeing 314 Clipper Brewster SB2A Buccaneer Curtiss SB2C Helldiver Douglas A-20 Havoc...
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    The terminal was built to handle Pan Am's fleet of flying boats, the Boeing 314 Clippers, which landed on the nearby Bowery Bay. Technological advances...
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    L-049 equipment between Bermuda and New York, replacing the slower Boeing 314 Clipper that flew before it. AOA, BOAC, and Air France all started L-049 operations...
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    commercial seaplanes like the Sikorsky S-42, Martin M-130 and the Boeing 314 Clipper, the FE's role was referred to as an "engineer" (much like a ship's...
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  • Puerto Nueva, a disparate group of individuals await a Boeing 314 Clipper, the Caribbean Clipper that will take them to Miami. Tony Bronson is the new...
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