Finally, over 50 years after her last flight with Pan American Airways, the complete story of the famed, Boeing-built, B-314 flying Clipper Ship has been written. Author M.D. Klaás, historian and writer of Pan Am's early flying boat era during the 1930s and 1940s, has put together historical accounts of America's greatest — and the world's largest — commercial airplane of the 1930s and early 1940s. It covers the multiple reasons for the plane's conception. stages of construction, testing, delivery flights, christenings, inaugural operations, established records, World War II special missions' histories, post-war services and the individual demise accounts surrounding each of the twelve models built specifically for Pan Am. The history of sales to and operations with British Overseas Airways (B.O.A.C.) — now British Airways — is also included in in-depth coverage.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
1. Purpose for Design
2. Birth of a Liner
3. Luxury Aloft
4. Safety Over the Seas
5. Flight-Deck Operations
6. Clipper Crew Training
7. First Launching
8. "It's Up!"
9. Mastering a Queen
10. Interlude
11. New Bases for New Clippers
12. Public Debut
13. A Ceremonial First
14. South Seas Adventure
15. Resolving the Unexpected
16. Nature's Havoc and a New Order
17. "Quick Turn_Around"
18. Bolama
19. The Glamor and the Glitz
20. Across the Pacific
21. Clipper to Lisbon
22. The Big Leap
23. Three For England
24. World Crisis
25. The Clippers Go to Way
26. Flying 1942...
27. Forging Ahead
28. Casablanca and Around the World
29. "Trip No. 9035"
30. Wings Toward Victory
31. Down and Out
32. Bermuda Sky Queen
33. End of An Era
Color Gallery
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
|
