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Martin M-130 Flying Boat
The Martin M-130 was a flying boat designed in 1935 for Pan American Airways. Also known as the China Clipper, the M-130 opened up long range transoceanic airline flight over the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco via Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam to Hong Kong.
Across the Pacific (2020) is a three-hour documentary series about one of the great milestones in aviation history: the 1935 crossing of the Pacific Ocean by a Pan American Airways flying boat know as the China Clipper. Originally seen on public television stations, the entire series is on this DVD.
Pan Am clippers were critical to long range transportation and when WWII broke out with Japan, the USN joined forces with Pan Am to implement the Clippers for war. Because land runways were scarce in those days, flying boats solved that issue.
The Pan Am Flying Boat Collection is two DVDs that cover Pan Am flying boats from the 1920s to the World War II years. See the conquest of the Pacific using flying boats. After WWII begins, see how Pan Am flying boats were used for military transport of supplies and Navy personnel trained to navigate vast oceans.