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The adventurous nature of the first scheduled air service from the San Francisco Bay Area to Hong Kong is captured in our China Clipper exhibition.
This image was posted on February 27, 2019.
#chinaclipper #transpacific #panamerican #panam #hongkong #avgeek
#OnThisDay in 1935, the first of three Martin M-130 flying boats was delivered to Pan American Airways.
This image was posted on October 09, 2018.
#chinaclipper #panam #earlyaviation #avgeek #paa #panamerican #flyingboats #transpacific
Our online database features over 10,000 objects from our collection, including over 200 airmail covers from all over the world, commemorating different airmail routes.
This image was posted on February 18, 2018.
#avgeek #avationgeek #aviation #aviationhistory #vintageaviation #history #avhistory #aviationgeeks #avgeeks #philately #airmail #sfo #manila #panam #panamerican #transpacific
Pan American pioneered the multiple flight crew concept for long-range ocean transports.
This image was posted on July 03, 2017.
#avgeek #aviationhistory #chinaclipper #panam #flyingboats #flightcrew #transpacific
In 1929, the German airship, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin completed an ambitious, 21-day, round-the-world trip in sponsored by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.
This image was posted on May 19, 2017.
#german #grafzeppelin #hearst #sfhistory #transpacific #avgeek #aviationhistory
Pan American Airways’ first Sikorsky S-42 test flight to Hawaii took off #onthisday in 1935 from Alameda, California.
This image was posted on April 16, 2017.
#aviationhistory #avgeek #panam #edmusick #transpacific
Created to celebrate fifty years of scheduled transpacific air service, this color print of a watercolor painting by Oakland-born Dong Kingman depicts a Pan American China Clipper aircraft flying past the uncompleted Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
This image was posted on April 14, 2017.
#dongkingman #panam #chinaclipper #transpacific #earlyaviation #watercolor #californiastyle #cahistory #sfhistory #goldengatebridge #sanfrancisco #avgeek #aviationhistory