Pan Am Flying Boats & Clippers - China Clipper: Pan Am's Conquest of the Pacific is an exceptional documentary covering Pan Am's ten-year reign of the Pacific Ocean in the 1930s. All prior footage of earlier Pan Am flying Clippers (Sikorsky S-42, Martin M-130) is in black-and-white but this China Clipper DVD shows never before seen *color* footage of Pan Am flying boats and Clippers.
China Clipper DVD highlights: Overnight sleeping berths on the B-314 and on-board luxury dining - if only they still served food like that! Breathtaking never before seen extensive exterior and interior B-314 shots in *color*. The Pan Am crew members of B-314 performing required tasks on the spacious flight deck. Impressive view of the Pan Am flying boat taking off and landing Valuable historical information covering passenger service years, the construction of military bases on Wake, Midway and Guam and Pan Am’s role in World War II. Footage showing Pan Am owned hotels on Pacific Island stopovers as well as on Honolulu, Hong Kong and Manila. High quality film of additional flying clippers, boats and seaplanes including the Sikorsky S-40, S-42 and rare footage of Sikorsky's last seaplane, the VS-44A. The uncommon footage contained in this DVD of beautiful flying clippers make it an excellent item or gift for the Pan Am aviation enthusiast. It’s a great window into the past, a great educational tool and a film to be admired by pilots and aviation fans alike. Total run time for Pan Am China Clipper Pacific Conquest B-314 M-130 DVD is about 60 minutes. Format is NTSC DVD and region-free.The run-time for this Pan Am Flying Boat China Clipper dvd is approximately 60 minutes. The format is NTSC DVD and region-free.
