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  Boeing 314 Clipper - USA
When the Boeing 314 flying boat made its appearance, it was the largest civil aircraft in service.
The Boeing 314 airplanes were well known for the fact that they carried Winston Churchill on his intercontinental journeys, and survived the war to be returned to the United States in 1948.
The career of the Boeing 314s, five of which were purchased by the USAAF and the US Navy, was also a lengthy one.
www.aviation-history.com /boeing/314.html   (0 words)

  
  Boeing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Piasecki Helicopter was acquired by Boeing in 1960, and was reorganized as Boeing's Vertol division.
Boeing introduced a new corporate identity with completion of the merger, incorporating the Boeing logotype and a stylized version of the McDonnell Douglas symbol, which was derived from the Douglas Aircraft logo from the 1950s.
Boeing is now focused on the newly-launched 787 as a platform of total fleet rejuvenation, which has benefited from strong sales success at the expense of Airbus' competing offerings.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boeing   (3929 words)

  
 Boeing 314 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Boeing 314 "Clipper" was a long-range flying boat produced by the Boeing Airplane Company between 1938 and 1941.
The Boeing 314 was a response to Pan American's request for a flying boat with unprecedented range capability that could augment the airline's trans-Pacific Martin M-130.
After the war several Clippers were returned to Pan American, but the type had been made obsolete by new long-range landplanes, like the Douglas DC-4 and Lockheed Constellation, and by the wartime construction of a network of landing strips that gave access to nearly the entire world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boeing_314   (1106 words)

  
 Boeing - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Boeing's bet for the future, the new B747 Jumbo Jet was delayed in production and originated much higher costs than forecasted.
Boeing had to offer new aircraft, and developed the single-aisle B757, the larger, twin-aisle B767, and upgraded versions of the B737.
In 1994, Boeing introduced its most modern commercial jet aircraft, the twin-engine B777, with a seating capacity of 390 passengers, in between the B767 and the B747.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Boeing   (2654 words)

  
 PBS - Chasing the Sun - Pan Am Clipper
While Pan Am's majestic fleet of flying boats generally came to be known as Clippers, the planes, themselves, were actually comprised of three different models: the Sikorsky S-42, the Martin M-130, and the Boeing 314.
Not until 30 years later with the arrival of the 747 would a commercial plane surpass the 314 in size.
The Boeing 314 entered Pacific service in early 1939, and opened a trans-Atlantic route later that year.
www.pbs.org /kcet/chasingthesun/planes/clipper.html   (622 words)

  
 Boeing: History -- Products - Boeing Model 314 Clipper Flying Boat
The Clipper used the wings and engine nacelles of the giant Boeing XB-15 bomber on the flying boat's towering, whale-shaped body.
With a nose similar to that of the modern 747, the Clipper was the "jumbo" airplane of its time.
Clipper passengers looked down at the sea from large windows and enjoyed the comforts of dressing rooms, a dining salon that could be turned into a lounge and a bridal suite.
www.boeing.com /history/boeing/m314.html   (0 words)

  
 Boeing 314 Clipper
Aboard a Boeing 314 Clipper on January 11, 1943 Franklin D. Rossevelt made the first flight by a president in office.
The flight from Miami, Florida to Bathurst, British Gambia was part of a trip to Casablanca to meet with Winston Churchill and plan the European invasion.
President Roosevelt was flown to the Casablanca Conference, to meet with Churchill and Stalin, on January 14, 1943, thus becoming the first in-office president to fly, and the 314 Dixie Clipper the first presidential airplane.
www.zpub.com /sf/history/boeing314.html   (545 words)

  
 The Airborne Palace - The Boeing 314 @ FlyingClippers.com
The B-314 was the largest commercial plane in scheduled use until the coming of the jumbo jets 30 years later.
The Model 314 was a combination of the Wellwood E. Beall's design and the Boeing XB-15 bomber.
To the public, China Clipper became a generic name and originally was applied to all three of the Martin M-130's in Pan Am's fleet and, later, even to the Boeing B-314's.
www.flyingclippers.com /B314.html   (0 words)

  
 Pam Am Boeing 314 Flying Boats Photo Album
Boeing 314 NC18602 California Clipper at Dinner Key
Boeing 314 Yankee Clipper on takeoff from Long Island Sound, 1939
Boeing 314 "California Clipper" at anchor in Pearl Harbor Hawaii
www.mcguinnessonline.com /burt/flyingboat2.htm   (314 words)

  
 Boeing Resources & Information - boeing business jet
The Boeing 314 Clipper.Shortly after, an agreement with Pan American World Airways was reached, to develop and build a commercial flying-boat able to carry passengers on transoceanic routes.
Boeing sonic 314 Clipper was in June 1938.
Boeing was also boeing believed to have received strong expressions of interest for its 747 Advanced, a stretched version of its 747-400.
www.bizhisto.com /boeing.htm   (5605 words)

  
 Aero: boeing-1930s_1940s
Boeing did manage to eke out a small contract for 13 B-17s, and its performance with the Army's Second Bombardment Group won praise.
Boeing began producing the B-29 bomber in 1942, and there were many problems.
Boeing developed the Model 314, nicknamed the Clipper after the oceangoing sailing vessels of an earlier time.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/boeing-1930s_1940s/Aero19.htm   (1166 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay: Boeing's Model 314 Clipper Flying Boat -- A Snapshot History
The noble 314 Clipper with its flying boat hull, protruding sponsons and triple vertical tails was very different from today’s sleek jet airliners with their tubular fuselages and swept back wings.
Boeing’s Clipper for PAA is perhaps the best remembered of its early aircraft, and it evokes a quick smile from the aviation fan and average person alike.
The 314 was the fourth PAA airplane to bear the Clipper appellation.
www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=3253   (1640 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Boeing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The company was founded by William E. Boeing on July 15, 1916, together with George Conrad Westervelt, a Navy engineer, and was named "B&W" after their initials.
William E. Boeing had studied at Yale University and worked initially in the timber industry, where he became a rich man. There he also acquired knowledges about wooden structures which later revealed to be of value for the design and assembling of airplanes.
Boeing participated also with other products in the space programm, and was the first contractor for the International Space Station.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Boeing   (1252 words)

  
 FlightSim.Com Review: Boeing Clipper
Boeing rose to the challenge and developed the Model 314, which was nicknamed "Clipper" after the long range sailing ships.
A 314 duly made its first commercial trans-Atlantic flight on the eve of the outbreak of the second world war, under the expert command of Captain A.E. LaPorte, carrying a ton of mail from Port Washington to Marseilles, via the Azores and Lisbon.
The total build included six Boeing 314As, which were an improvement on the 314 with a capacity of 77 passengers and about a thousand more gallons of fuel, which extended cruise range to over 5000 miles.
www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/review/bc/bc.htm   (2916 words)

  
 Transatlantic Travel Indiana Jones Style
Clippers included such amenities as several on-board porters, a dedicated dining room serving hot meals with china and silver, separate restrooms and dressing areas for men and women, and sleeping berths for long overnight flights.
Clippers could accommodate a maximum of 74 passengers on shorter flights, 36 passengers on longer flights when the planes would be outfitted with sleeping berths.
Clippers were also used to transport high-priority mail in their cargo holds.
www.coba.usf.edu /satterfield/warstuff/clipper.htm   (1075 words)

  
 Boeing 314 - Definition, explanation
The Boeing 314 Clipper was a long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941.
The Clipper fleet was impressed into service during World War II, and the aircraft were used for ferrying personnel and equipment to the European and Pacific fronts.
After the war, several Clippers were returned to Pan Am, but the type had been made obsolete by new long-range land planes such as the Douglas DC-4 and Lockheed Constellation.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/bo/boeing_314.php   (475 words)

  
 The Boeing Company
Boeing is named for its founder, William Boeing, a man born a full quarter century before the Wright brothers ventured to Kitty Hawk.
During the mid-'30s, Boeing produced such landmark aircraft as the Boeing 314 Clipper, a trans-Pacific flying boat that boasted passenger lounges and a bridal suite.
Neither Boeing nor the USAAF ever officially designated the B-17 with the name by which it would come to be universally known.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/history_of_flight/44514   (441 words)

  
 Boeing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The company was founded in Seattle by William E. Boeing on July 15, 1916, together with, a U.S. Navy engineer, and was named "BandW" after their initials.
The Air Mail Act of 1934 prohibited airlines and manufacturers from being under the same corporate umbrella, so the company split into three smaller companies - Boeing Airplane Company, United Airlines, and, the precursor to United Technologies.
The fallout of this resulted in the resignation of Boeing CEO Philip M. Condit and the termination CFO.
www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Boeing   (2578 words)

  
 Favorite Planes
Boeing Stratocruisers still fly today, but you might be surprised to see how they've been reincarnated.
The Boeing 314 "Clipper" was Boeing's late entry into the seaplane business, having been watching Martin and Sikorsky develop plane after plane for Pan Am's South American and Pacific markets.
The Clipper is also the first commercial aircraft to fly around the world, completing this task after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and without the support of Pan Am or the U.S. Government.
www.bollar.org /favplane.htm   (907 words)

  
 Rich Hand's Web Site - Boeing Model 314   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Model 314, also known as the Clipper, is one of the planes that I fell in love with and led me to come to work for The Boeing Company.
The other is the Boeing 747, but of course it is not quite as romantic as the Clipper.
Unofficially, the 314 was the first Air Force One based on Roosevelt's "Casablanca Conference" trip and celebrating his birthday in-flight.
home.comcast.net /~richhand2/model314.html   (590 words)

  
 All Wood Wings: Boeing 314 Model, Pan Am 'Dixie Clipper'
The story of the 'Flying Clippers' really begins with the first successful airplane crossing of the Pacific in 1928 and the commercial interests of Pan American to run an air route from the United States to the Far East using American owned islands in the Pacific as stepping stones.
Soon the generic term "Flying Clipper" became associated for any large flying boat and was even applied later to the Boeing 314.
The Boeing 314 was the largest "flying clipper" and the largest commercial plane until the coming of the jumbo jets some thirty years later.
www.allwoodwings.com /4-CivilianAircraft/FlyingClippers,Boeing-314.htm   (628 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay: First Boeing Clipper, Model 314, lifts off from Elliott Bay on maiden flight on June 7, 1938.
Made obsolete by faster postwar airliners, the last surviving Clipper was scrapped in 1951.
The huge flying boat was assembled at Boeing's Plant 1 on the Duwamish River and then tugged to Elliott Bay for taxi and flight tests.
The Boeing 314 NX18601 Clipper remained aloft over Puget Sound for 38 minutes on its first flight.
www.historylink.org /output.CFM?file_ID=3545   (258 words)

  
 AVSIM Commercial Package Review: The Clippers
Originally, Boeing built only 12 of these giants and Pilot's have included 12 different liveries for you to enjoy (3 of the prototypes, 4 of the Pacific route boats, all 3 of the BOAC 314s, and 2 of the Clippers that flew the Atlantic routes).
The Boeing B314 Clipper lacked any kind of landing gear, but there was a specially designed beaching cradle that is included with these models.
The night-lighting of the Boeing Clipper is very realistic and even the mooring buoys have small lanterns.
www.avsim.com /pages/0502/pilot_clipper_review/clipper_review.html   (3894 words)

  
 Boeing 314 Flying Boats Specifications
NC 18602 California Clipper on January 1, 1941.
On July 21,1936 Pan American signed a contract for six aircraft, the first of which (designation Model 314) took to the air on June 7,1938.
Boeing 314 Clipper lifts off from Elliott Bay, ca.
www.mcguinnessonline.com /burt/flyingboat3.htm   (343 words)

  
 Boeing 314 Clippers - Deluxe airplane model
It used the wings and engine nacelles of the giant Boeing XB-15 bomber.
Boeing 314 "Yankee Clipper" - Pan American Airways
Boeing 314 "Dixie Clipper" - Pan American Airways
www.einsteins-emporium.com /technology/aviation/airliners/aaba0.htm   (296 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Boeing Company NYSE: BA is the leading American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with its largest production facilities in Everett, Washington, about 30 miles north of Seattle, Washington.
Currently, Boeing is planning to introduce three new aircraft, the 787 "Dreamliner", the ultra-long-range 777-200LR, and the 737-900ER.
The 737-900 is the latest version of the venerable craft offered by Boeing and is the largest model of the 737 line at a length of 138 feet.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Boeing   (3090 words)

  
 Boeing B-314 - The Clipper for FS2002 :: Flightstore pilot and aviation supplies   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Boeing B-314 - The Clipper for FS2002 :: Flightstore pilot and aviation supplies
With a nose similar to that of the modern 747, the Clipper was the "jumbo" airplane of its time.The Model 314 had a 3,500-mile range and made the first scheduled trans-Atlantic flight June 28, 1939.
Boeing only built 12 of these magnificent beasts...
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 Boeing 314
The Boeing Airplane Company responded to this request by developing the Model 314, dubbed the "Clipper" by Pan American, which incorporated the wing plan and engines of the XB-15, an experimental bomber Boeing had built for the Army.At first, Boeing had problems with the single vertical stabilizer.
The Model 314 was drafted into service at the outbreak of World War II to ferry materials and personnel.
Unfortunately all of the Pan Am flying boats are gone, but the Martin Company did manufacture a flying boat during the Second World War, the Martin M-150 "Mars".  Two of the four aircraft manufactured still fly!  Please visit them at their home in Canada.
www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Lab/4515/clipper.html   (1044 words)

  
 China Clipper
Later in 1939 the Boeing 314 entered trans-Atlantic service flying from the United States east coast out of N.Y to destinations in France and Portugal.
They were named "China," "Hawaii," and "Philippines." The first commercial flights were made by the China Clipper and this was to become what the public perceived as all of these type airplanes.
In 1935, shortly after placing the Martin China Clipper in to service, Pan Am president Juan T. Trippe asked the aircraft industry for a higher capacity, longer range fly- ing boat airliner with a greater payload than the Martin.
www.aviationtrivia.homestead.com /ChinaClipper.html   (634 words)

  
 AVSIM feature: Flyingboats
The only Boeing Clipper to be lost due to an in-flight accident was the Yankee Clipper when it crashed while landing on the Tagus River near Lisbon (24 of the Yankee Clipper's passenger and crew were killed in the crash).
All of the Pan-American Boeing Clippers were called upon for duty during the war years and they were both effective and efficient in their efforts.
The Pacific Clipper (Boeing 314 Clipper), was in the air and on its way from New Caledonia down to Auckland, New Zealand when their radio crackled with news of the Japanese attack on the US Navy at Pearl and Wake Island, so the crew decided to refuel in New Zealand and then head west.
www.avsim.com /pages/0502/clipper_history_feature/flyingboats.html   (3693 words)

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