The chief flight radio officer on Pan Am Flight NC18602 needed a spare ... stand-in for an ill radio man onboard the Pacific Clipper, a large flying boat — essentially a seaplane on steroids.

The chief flight radio officer on Pan Am Flight NC18602 needed a spare ... stand-in for an ill radio man onboard the Pacific Clipper, a large flying boat - essentially a seaplane on steroids.

Passengers check into Port Washington hangar for their flight (Pan Am Foundation) The Sikorsky S-42 or the “Flying Clipper” was a commercial flying boat designed and built by Sikorsky Aircraft ...

Aerial view of Pan American Airways "China Clipper" - San Francisco piers and skyline in silhouette in 1936. (Library of Congress) It was a few minutes before 6 a.m. and still very dark on January ...

Nicknamed the Flying Clipper or Pan Am Clipper, the Sikorsky S-42 was powered by four Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet radial engines, each producing 700 horsepower. It cruised at 160 miles per hour ...

America's first international airline will take to the skies again in November, when Pan American Airways begins flying out of its ... attempt to re-establish Pan-Am since it went bankrupt in ...

Pan Am's 1937 promotional ... clippers, or "flying boats." This excerpt features the Miami-Havana flight, with an amazing shot of what appears to be their Sikorsky S-42 clipper launching from ...

Along with other members of Pan Am's Pacific Pioneers, they are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the inaugural flights of the "Clipper ships." A November exhibit, "The Golden Age of the Flying ...