Author : James Trautman
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2019
Category : TRANSPORTATION
ISBN : 9780228102304
"Illustrated with rare period photographs, vintage travel posters, magazine ads and colorful company brochures, Pan American Clippers covers every aspect of the era of flying boats, from 1931-1946. Trautman explains PanAm's founding and growth, their wartime activities, and the design choices that made the company a symbol of luxury. "--
Author : Stan Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Larry Weirather
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
"The book discusses strategies used to represent the clipper as a paragon of U.S. interests, values and beliefs. The main focus of the work is the variety of ways this iconographic status manifested itself through toys, movies, pulp fiction, comic books and music. An appendix explains different models of the clipper flying boats"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Robert Gandt
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1612514243
When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an instant celebrity. This lively history by Robert Gandt traces the development of the great flying boats as both a triumph of technology and a stirring human drama. He examines the political, military, and economic forces that drove its development and explains the aeronautical advances that made the aircraft possible. To fully document the story he includes interviews with flying boat pioneers and a dynamic collection of photographs, charts, and cutaway illustrations.
Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2004-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 110112668X
#1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes to the skies in this classic novel of international suspense. Set in the early days of World War II, Night over Water captures the daring and desperation of ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances—in prose as compelling as history itself. . . . September 1939. England is at war with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world's most luxurious airliner—the legendary Pan Am Clipper—takes off for its final flight to neutral America. Aboard are the cream of society and the dregs of humanity, all fleeing the war for reasons of their own . . . shadowed by a danger they do not know exists . . . and heading straight into a storm of violence, intrigue, and betrayal. . . .
Author : Albert S. J. Tucker
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
ISBN : 9780970965806
Author : MR Ed Dover
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780615214726
"...the story of the Pacific Clipper, a B-314 caught between Noumea, New Caledonia and Auckland, New Zealand at the outbreak of World War II and ordered to return home by flying west around the world in radio silence to avoid capture or destruction by enemy forces."--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Ronald W. Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 1980
Category : China Clipper (Airplane)
ISBN : 9780895960610
Author : Charles H. Baker (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Beverages
ISBN :
Author : Roy Allen
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1782747834
The Pan Am Clippers were probably the most romantic planes ever built. The experience of flying in them was intended to rival the great ocean liners. Illustrated with more than 100 archive photographs, this impressive book is a tribute to a technical wonder that continues to fascinate and captivate many people today.
