#OnThisDay in 1934, the Martin M-130 took its first test flight in Baltimore, Maryland. The largest commercial airplane when delivered in 1935, only three Martin M-130 flying boats were built. #PanAm #avgeek
This tweet was posted on December 30, 2022.
#OnThisDay in 1934, the first Martin M-130 took off on its first test flight. Only three Martin M-130 flying boats were built and they were the largest commercial airplane when delivered in 1935.
This tweet was posted on December 30, 2017.
#OnThisDay in 1935, the first of three Martin M-130 #flyingboats was delivered to Pan American Airways. Named the "China Clipper", this M-130 would go on to make history by inaugurating the first scheduled #transpacific air mail service from California to the Philippines. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on October 09, 2018.
@ParkeBench Hi Parker! our exhibition celebrates the three planes that flew the trans-Pacific island-to-island itineraries, the Martin M-130, the Boeing 314, and the Sikorsky S-42! Visit our website for more information: https://t.co/MPq52u5pOS
This tweet was posted on March 04, 2019.
An M-130 provided ample space for passengers on the 20 hr flight (yikes!) to Honolulu from SF in 1936 #ChinaClipper
This tweet was posted on May 14, 2016.
On Nov. 22, 1935, a #PanAm Martin M-130 named China Clipper, lifted off and strained into the sky, threading its way under and over two partially built bridges as thousands cheered from shore for the first scheduled flight across the Pacific Ocean. #DefunctThursday #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
On the afternoon of November 22, 1935, a Pan American Airways Martin M-130 named “China Clipper”, lifted off from the waters of the San Francisco Bay into the sky and history books as the inaugural scheduled transpacific airmail flight. #AvGeek #ChinaClipper #PanAm
This tweet was posted on November 22, 2022.
RT @FlyPanAm: Captain Musick and Captain Sullivan aboard Pan American’s Martin M-130 China Clipper in 1935.
This tweet was posted on August 02, 2018.
RT @panamhistory: Pan American’s China Clipper, Martin M-130, Prior to the Inaugural Flight: Nov. 22 & 23, 1935. Photo from the Zavada coll…
This tweet was posted on November 22, 2016.
Some of the final objects to be reinstalled are model aircraft suspended from the ceiling. Our preparators took great care in re-hanging models of the Pan Am Clipper (a Sikorsky S-42) and the China Clipper (a Martin M-130).
#AvGeek #BehindTheScenes #SneakPeek
This tweet was posted on May 27, 2022.
This amazing photo of the Martin M-130 China Clipper was captured in 1938 with the east side of SF in the background
This tweet was posted on January 14, 2016.
This wine glass was specially designed not to spill during turbulence & was used in 1936 during the first commercial transpacific passenger flight on the Martin M-130 Hawaii Clipper. Browse through over 100 drink glasses on our collection website! https://t.co/Iw4MUMpOjX #avgeek
This tweet was posted on April 18, 2022.
Today marks the eighty-fourth anniversary of the first commercial flight across the Pacific Ocean. This 1935 photo is of Pan American Airways’ Martin M-130 #ChinaClipper on its cradle being prepped for its launch from Alameda. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on November 22, 2019.
Various attempts to cross the Pacific in the 1920s, such as the U.S. Navy’s PN-9 flying boats in 1925, and the Southern Cross in 1928, finally culminated in 1935, when #PanAm opened the first regularly scheduled air service with Sikorsky S-42 & Martin M-130 flying boats. #Airmail
This tweet was posted on June 14, 2022.
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All: Pan American Airways
Martin M-130 “China Clipper”; 1938
Gift of Reid W. Dennis
2010.244.003
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Midway Island; c. 1937
Gift of Richard McLean
2009.175.048 a b
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Martin M-130 “China Clipper” log page; 1935
Transferred from the Pan American World Airways Archive
1993.11.21
This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
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All: Pan American Airways
poster: Air Mail across the Pacific; 1937
Gift of Gary Frink
2013.038.001
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Martin M-130 “China Clipper”; 1935
Transfer from San Francisco International Airport
1993.03.11
This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
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Pan American Airways, Martin M-130 "China Clipper," Alameda, 1935
Gift of Beatrice H. Springer
1995.35.27 a
"China Clipper," Treasure Island, 1938
Gift of Reid W. Dennis
2010.244.002
"Hawaii Clipper," 1935
Gift of the Captain John B. Russell Family
2012.149.0902
This tweet was posted on March 03, 2021.