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Boeing B-314 Flying Boat
The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat for transoceanic airliner use produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941. Designed at a time when there were land airports with long paved runways in existence internationally, the B-314 was able to takeoff and land on ocean water.
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.