China Clipper (NC14716) was the first of three Martin M-130 four-engine flying boats built for Pan American Airways and was used to inaugurate the first...
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Java. The boom years of the clipper era began in 1843 in response to a growing demand for faster delivery of tea from China and continued with the demand...
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Martin M-130 (redirect from Martin China Clipper)
Pan American Airways. Three were built: the China Clipper, the Philippine Clipper and the Hawaii Clipper. All three had crashed by 1945. A similar flying...
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China Clipper is a 1936 American drama film directed by Ray Enright, written by Frank Wead and starring Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander, Beverly Roberts,...
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China Clipper was the first of three Martin M-130 four-engine flying boats. China Clipper may also refer to: China clipper (ship), a class of clipper...
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Pan Am (redirect from Pan Am Clipper)
Mechanics. June 1935. "Clipper Conquers Pacific on Hawaiian Hops". Popular Mechanics. July 1935. Gandt, Robert (2010). China Clipper: The Age of the Great...
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Edwin Musick (section Trans-Pacific Clipper flights)
the Pacific Ocean, ultimately reaching the Philippine Islands, on the China Clipper. Musick was born on August 13, 1894, in St. Louis, Missouri, where his...
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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 China Clipper flight departure site is listed as California Historical Landmark number 968. It is the site from which Pan American World Airways (Pan...
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small fleet of three Martin M-130 "Flying Clippers". On October 11, the China Clipper landed at Wake on a press flight with ten journalists on board. A week...
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Hawaii Clipper was one of three Pan American Airways Martin M-130 flying boats. It disappeared with six passengers and nine crew en route from Guam to...
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The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is a biennial sailing race that takes paying amateur crews on one or more legs of a circumnavigation of the globe...
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The Wahl Clipper Corporation is an American manufacturer of grooming products. It is headquartered in Sterling, Illinois. Wahl Clipper Corporation was...
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married actress Anne Nagel, with whom he had appeared in the films China Clipper and Here Comes Carter (both 1936). Alexander always had problems with...
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harbor as the California terminal for China Clipper trans-Pacific flights beginning in 1935. The China Clipper terminal is designated California Historical...
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Pan Am Flight 1104 (redirect from Philippine Clipper)
shortly afterwards. During World War II, the Philippine Clipper and sister ship China Clipper were pressed into service for the Navy, though they remained...
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Pan Am became the first airline to cross the Pacific Ocean with the China Clipper. Trippe served as the chairman of the board of directors of the airline...
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airfield in November 1985 on a transpacific tour to commemorate the first China Clipper flight. Japan Airlines (JAL) used both Wake Island and Honolulu as stops...
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35 seasons later as the NHL's all-time leader in goals and points. "China Clipper" Larry Kwong becomes the first non-white player in the league, breaking...
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Norman Kwong (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
retirement in 1960. Nicknamed the "China Clipper" (a reference to the speedy clipper ships), Kwong was the first Chinese Canadian to play on a professional...
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Retrieved July 24, 2015. "China Clipper Lands at Wake; 3d Base Station". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 26, 1935. p. 1. "Clipper to Spend Holiday at Guam;...
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starring parts: I Married a Doctor (1936), Public Enemy's Wife (1936), China Clipper (1936), The Great O'Malley (1937), and Slim (1937) with Henry Fonda...
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Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved September 21, 2016. "China Clipper". Turner Classic Movies. Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner)...
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board. January 8, 1945 Flight 161, operated by Martin M-130 (NC14716) China Clipper, crashed short of its landing site at Port of Spain due to pilot error...
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through his work at the Pasadena Playhouse. His film debut came in China Clipper (1936). He played the title character of Kid Galahad (1937), a story...
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Airways establishing a seaplane base at Sumay for its trans-Pacific China Clipper route.: 15 On December 10, 1914, the SMS Cormoran (or SMS Cormoran...
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World Airways (Pan Am), where he established most of the company's China Clipper seaplane routes across the Pacific. Noonan had also been responsible...
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The period of clipper ships lasted from the early 1840s to the early 1890s, and over time features such as the hull evolved from wooden to composite....
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drama Hearts in Bondage. He was gravely ill during his final film, China Clipper. Frank Capra wanted Walthall to portray the High Lama in his 1937 film...
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unveiled a historical marker at the yacht club, honoring the arrival of China Clipper to the Philippines in 1935. The aircraft took off from San Francisco...
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