Boeing is committed to serving and supporting its customers.An epic eight-part documentary series 100 years in the making. He also said there were only 5 passengers on board and the plane had stop-overs at 5 islands.

Between 1938 and 1941, Boeing built 12 of the jumbo planes for Pan American World Airways.

The 314’s wing was thick enough to allow access through a walkway to the engines in flight, where the fully-feathering props made it possible for a mechanic to perform repairs in flight. He also remembers having 5 bottles of Johnnie WalkerHi Stephen, I knew your dad, Lewis H. Goode.

The system saw only 12 examples produced in two variants and could ferry up to 68 passengers in late 1930's/early 1940's comfort. Do you know if the passenger manifests for these are available in the US? Shown above is the California Clipper.

The merchant tanker Englewood Hills maintained radio contact, found the aircraft and removed the passengers on the morning of 4 November. Photo: United States Library of Congress WWII intervenes, and Boeing makes bombers. ?I was a navigator in VR-2, us navy, flying out of alameda throughout the Pacific, 1943-1945 Had my own short snorter.

We used to get the passengers to sign and give us 1$. He had a long history & a great love of the flying boats during his USN career. Boeing 314 Clipper Data Sheet. The Boeing Company

A complete airplane. President Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled by Boeing Clipper to meet with Winston Churchill at the Casablanca Conference in 1943.

By the year’s end, Clippers were routinely flying across the Pacific.

Clarence Mills Caldwells after-action report and he refers to it as the NC18602 but states that it was second-hand information.Maynard Foster was looking for the name of the following B-314 for the Honolulu Clipper (NC18601) but I can’t reply to that post. The aircraft first flew on June 7, 1938. They accepted it, and I have the original acceptance telegram from Pan Am. His life took a tragic turn at the accidental loss of their son while Miami-based. 1 - south of Seattle where all 314's were built . I think he resides in Florida.Does anyone recall the name of waffle hester who flew on the south American route out of Miami?Hi Cory, While I do not recognize the name Al Pfau, it is possible that your father and I were flying as crew members with Pan Am at about the same time.

The tragedy affected him and his wife, Ginny, greatly. I know it was damaged and then salvaged for parts — but where and how?In January 1942 the UKs Prime Minister Winston Churchill after a secret meeting with PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour.. decided to fly home from Bermuda in a Boeing Clipper Flying Boat Berwick..A Luftwaffe squadron was scrambled as the flying boat passes over Brest in France..but fortunately for some reason they could not find it and Winston made it safely back to the UK…I know about this, they used the Horta harbour, Faial Island, Azores.They had there two support boats that were different from all the other used by Pan Am in their bases. The Pan Am crew scheduling office assigned crew members on a rotating basis and you were usually with a different group of flight crews for each flight.

He indicated he took few (I have only one, and maybe in a DC3) as it was forbidden due to the war. He finished his career as a Captain of 747’s flying from New York to Scottland.

I have begun looking through the web at individual names, and find scant info as most of them are obituaries, sadly.Sorry, I didn’t make that clear – the name of the father of my former administrative assistant was Bob Grace, who flew the same route as your dad in ’40 or ’41, just before the war.I suspect your dad was referring to Capt. Also, is there any chance I could get a hold of a reproduction of the photo?

Here is a link to a site that speaks of a story about him: I asked my dad your question today, and he could only remember one name, Ford, I don’t know if this is a first or last name.