around-the-world flight in December 1941 and January 1942 as the California Clipper. Aviation experts called the flight the first commercial circumnavigation of...
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The Boeing C-40 Clipper is a military version of the Boeing 737 Next Generation used to transport cargo and passengers. It is used by the United States...
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(Metro-North station) Yankee Clipper (Harbor Cruise), a special-event NY Waterway service American Aviation AA-1 Yankee Clipper, a light aircraft in the Grumman...
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Pan Am Flight 526A (redirect from Clipper Endeavor)
sunny day with a gentle breeze, Pan Am Flight 526A, a Douglas DC-4 named Clipper Endeavor, took off from San Juan Airport at 12:11 PM on Good Friday of...
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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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Pan Am (redirect from Pan Am Clipper)
China Clipper route, from San Francisco, leading to Manila, Hong Kong, Shanghai. On August 6, 1937, Juan Trippe accepted United States aviation's highest...
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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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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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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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List of Pan Am accidents and incidents (category Lists of aviation accidents and incidents)
remains the deadliest in commercial aviation history. July 9, 1982 Flight 759, operated by Boeing 727-235 Clipper Defiance, crashed on climbout from New...
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Collection from Aviation's Golden Age. New York: BCL Press, 2003. ISBN 1-932302-03-4. China Clipper at IMDb China Clipper at AllMovie China Clipper at the TCM...
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Pan Am Flight 1104 (redirect from Philippine Clipper)
the accident site. 1943 in aviation China Clipper, the first of three Martin M-130 flying boats built for Pan Am Hawaii Clipper, lost in 1938 List of accidents...
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established ten world records for payload-to-height. The "Flying Clipper" and the "Pan Am Clipper" were other names for the S-42. During the inaugural flight...
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Pan Am Flight 214 (redirect from Clipper Tradewind)
exploded. The pilots transmitted a final message: "MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY. Clipper 214 out of control. Here we go." Seconds later, the first officer of National...
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The clipper route was derived from the Brouwer Route and was sailed by clipper ships between Europe and the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. The route...
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Samoan Clipper was one of ten Pan American Airways Sikorsky S-42 flying boats. It exploded near Pago Pago, American Samoa, on January 11, 1938, while...
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in command Second Officer Third mate Lowery, John. "Flying the World in Clipper Ships". FlightJournal.com. Archived from the original on 9 February 2007...
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Tenerife airport disaster (redirect from Clipper Victor)
Airport (JFK). The aircraft was a Boeing 747-121, registration N736PA, named Clipper Victor. It was the first 747 to be delivered to an airline. Of the 380...
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Grumman American AA-1 (redirect from American Aviation AA-1 Yankee Clipper)
American Aviation built 459 examples of the AA-1 Yankee Clipper between 1969 and 1971 at their factory in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1971, American Aviation modified...
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Pan Am Flight 843 (redirect from Clipper Friendship)
Francisco, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii. On Monday, June 28, 1965, Clipper Friendship, the Boeing 707-321B operating this route, experienced an uncontained...
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transoceanic routes, expanding on the precedent set by their Boeing 314 Clipper with Pan American World Airways. Despite a recession in late 1945, Allen...
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N747GE (redirect from Clipper Ocean Spray)
by Pan Am and registered N744PA. It was named Clipper Star of the Union between 1970 and 1982 and Clipper Ocean Spray between 1982 and 1992. The Boeing...
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The Piper PA-16 Clipper is an extended fuselage model of the PA-15 Vagabond. Both models were designed in 1947 for the same reason – Piper Aircraft found...
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success of the AA-1 Yankee Clipper American Aviation turned their attention to developing a four-seat aircraft. The American Aviation engineers started with...
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Juan Trippe (category American aviation businesspeople)
Terry Trippe (June 27, 1899 – April 3, 1981) was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan American World Airways, one...
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List of active United States naval aircraft (category Lists of naval aviation aircraft)
2006 A C-40A Clipper from VR-59, August 2015 A V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft at an airshow in 2012 United States Marine Corps Aviation#Current inventory...
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Pan Am Flight 845 (category Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States in 1971)
Francisco. The flight was operated by a Boeing 747 registered N747PA and named Clipper America. On July 30, 1971, at 15:29 PDT, while it was taking off from San...
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Pan Am Flight 103 (redirect from Clipper Maid of the Seas)
another in New York City. The transatlantic leg of the route was operated by Clipper Maid of the Seas, a Boeing 747 registered N739PA. Shortly after 19:00 on...
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In aviation, the first officer (FO), also called co-pilot, is a pilot in addition to the captain, who is the legal commander. In the event of incapacitation...
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Pan Am Flight 830 (redirect from Clipper Ocean Rover)
On August 11, 1982, the Boeing 747-121 serving the flight, nicknamed Clipper Ocean Rover, was en route to Hawaii when the airplane was damaged by a...
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