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 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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Pan Am (redirect from Pan Am Clipper)
Dulles, DC, U.S. At the outbreak of the war in the Pacific in December 1941, the Pacific Clipper was en route to New Zealand from San Francisco. Rather...
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the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean. Although its inaugural flight plan called for the China Clipper to fly over the San Francisco–Oakland...
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Edwin Musick (section Trans-Pacific Clipper flights)
including the famous route across the Pacific Ocean, ultimately reaching the Philippine Islands, on the China Clipper. Musick was born on August 13, 1894...
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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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World Airways (Pan Am) initiated trans-Pacific airmail service on November 22, 1935. A flying boat named China Clipper made the first trip, and the publicity...
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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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(1998) Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Airframe Combat! Escape of The Pacific Clipper Pilgrim Rainbow Six Superman "William Wisher Interview; Exclusive and...
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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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MS Formosa Queen (redirect from M/V Clipper Pacific)
MS Song of Norway (later Sundream, Dream Princess, Dream, Clipper Pearl, Clipper Pacific, Festival, Ocean Pearl, Formosa Queen) was one of the first ships...
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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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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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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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Circumnavigation of the Globe: And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Magellan to the Death of Cook. Harper & brothers...
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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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The Packard Clipper is an automobile that was built by the Packard Motor Car Company (and by the later Studebaker-Packard Corporation) for model years...
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last 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...
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encourage a feeling of Skagway as a center of bustling business activity. Pacific Clipper Line Office. Broadway near 3rd Avenue. First serving the considerable...
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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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1957 and 1958 Packards (redirect from 1957 Packard Clipper)
Packard Front Bumper. The Packard Clipper emblem was used in the grill to replicate the styling of the 56 Clipper. The designers also changed the quarter...
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Canton Island (category Pacific islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act)
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 the...
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David J. Ritchie) DNA/DOA (Shadowrun module 1) (1989) The Case of the Pacific Clipper (1991) The Haunted Lighthouse (Dungeon Crawl Classics Module #3.5)...
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Association of the Pacific Coast: 706. Retrieved 24 September 2014. Matthews, F. C. (1921). "The Clipper Ship Great Republic". Pacific Marine Review. Consolidated...
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Pan Am Flight 1104 (redirect from Philippine Clipper)
Philippine Clipper was one of three M-130 flying boats designed for Pan Am by the Glenn L. Martin Company. It was built as a trans-Pacific airliner and...
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variously as the "Russian Clipper", "Moscow Clipper", or "Soviet Clipper" was a very large flying boat aircraft intended for trans-Pacific service. The single...
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An Alberta clipper, also known as an Alberta low, Alberta cyclone, Alberta lee cyclone, Canadian clipper, or simply clipper, is a fast-moving low-pressure...
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M-130 flying boat named the Flying Luna Clipper. Departing from Honolulu, they embark on a journey across the Pacific Ocean and watch short films on a 200-inch...
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board survived. November 4, 1945 Honolulu Clipper, the prototype Boeing 314 Clipper, force-landed in the Pacific, 625 miles off Hawaii following double engine...
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Thermopylae was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen, to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London. Designed...
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