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China Clipper (NC14716) was the first of three Martin M-130 four-engine flying boats built for Pan American Airways and was used to inaugurate the first commercial transpacific airmail service from San Francisco to Manila on November 22, 1935.
The Martin M-130 was a commercial flying boat designed and built in 1935 by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland, for Pan American Airways. Three were built: the China Clipper, the Philippine Clipper and the Hawaii Clipper. All three had crashed by 1945.
On November 22, 1935, before a crowd of 25,000 people, the China Clipper lifted off the waters of San Francisco Bay to begin its flight to Manila. The aircraft carried 58 mailbags, weighing 1,837 lbs, containing 110,865 specially stamped letters.
May 22, 2014 · Often called a “China Clipper” after the most famous of the three M-130’s built for Pan American, [...] Boeing B-314. The Boeing clipper is widely regarded at the summit of flying boat technology. It inaugurated the world’s first transatlantic heavier-than-air service, and carried passengers and cargo around the globe in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Dec 30, 2022 · Martin M-130: The Story Of The 'China Clipper' Flying Boat. By Justin Surette. Published Dec 30, 2022. The seaplane was used to inaugurate the first commercial transpacific airmail service from San Francisco to Manila. Photo: Robert Edgar Williams via Wikimedia Commons.
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The Boeing 314's were stately flying boats. The experience rivaled that of the ocean liners that widely used at that time. Sleeping berths, lounges, luxurious lavatories, silver goblets, hot meals on real china served by white-coated stewards, were all part of what Pan Am offered its passengers.
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The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941. One of the largest aircraft of its time, it had the range to cross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. For its wing, Boeing re-used the design from the earlier XB-15 bomber prototype.
