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Clip #: TFA-23A-3
Length: :26
Color: B/W
Library: TFA Network
Decade: 1940s
Filmmaker: Andre de la Varre
Region: North America
Country: United States
State: California
City: San Francisco
Subject: Airplanes
Original: 35mm
Keywords:
Pan Am Flying Clippers, flying boats, airplane Boeing B-314 Flying Clipper
Notes:
Original nitrate film elements no longer available. Originally delivered to Pan Am in 1939, it was the largest commercial airliner until Boeing introduced the B-747 in 1969. It was first commercial airliner to circumnavigate the earth in 1941. In a secret OSS mission, it carried uranium from Africa to the US during WW II for the first atomic bombs.
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