The China Clipper, a Pan Am flying boat, crossed the Pacific Ocean in 1935. The documentary series recounts the development of this technological innovation led by Pan Am CEO Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airplane engineer Igor Sikorsky, and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz with dramatic re-enactments, interviews with historians and biographers, and archival photographs, newsreel clips, and film.
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The China Clipper, a Pan Am flying boat, crossed the Pacific Ocean in 1935. The documentary series recounts the development of this technological innovation led by Pan Am CEO Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airplane engineer Igor Sikorsky, and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz with dramatic re-enactments, interviews with historians and biographers, and archival photographs, newsreel clips, and film.
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