Docrwm

Ever see this model plane at the Miami Airport?

Goes well with your sig. Reminded me that I took them.

HOLY CRAP! THAT'S ROBERT'S AVATAR PLANE!!!! Very cool!

Thanks. I haven't been to the Miami Airport since I was 6, probably wasn't up then

That one is NC-18605, which is the Dixie Clipper Came off the production lines in April 1939 and was used in the Atlantic service. Purchased by the U.S. Navy in 1942, but operated by Pan Am. Sold after the War to World Airways and scrapped in 1950.

NC-18605 performed Special Mission 71 during WWII with the main purpose to transport Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt from the Casablanca Conference for a summit with Brazilian Pres. Getulio Vargas at Natal before leaving for Miami, then by train to Washington.

That is really cool! It's also amazing the kind of information one can find by using just a tail number. What great info Doc!

sheraortho wrote:

That is really cool! It's also amazing the kind of information one can find by using just a tail number. What great info Doc!

Thanks, but there are several entire books just on the Pan Am flying boats. The 314 is my favorite model used during the heyday of trans-pacific flight in the 30s and before the war. They were the Concorde of their age (but more luxurious).

Docrwm wrote:

sheraortho wrote:

That is really cool! It's also amazing the kind of information one can find by using just a tail number. What great info Doc!

Thanks, but there are several entire books just on the Pan Am flying boats. The 314 is my favorite model used during the heyday of trans-pacific flight in the 30s and before the war. They were the Concorde of their age (but more luxurious).

That is sooo cool! I love ALL things historical and of that era in time! I've always told my Dad that I was born at the wrong time in history! I would have done well if i had lived thru the 30's, 40's and 50's! There's just something about those eras that I have always loved and the begining stages of flight is one of those things! That's why I love all your pics and posts on your other hobby! Please keep posting info on this stuff as it interests the hell out of me!

Cool stuff!! I'm with Brian. Keep posting info on this it interest me too.

sheraortho wrote:

Docrwm wrote:

sheraortho wrote:

That is really cool! It's also amazing the kind of information one can find by using just a tail number. What great info Doc!

Thanks, but there are several entire books just on the Pan Am flying boats. The 314 is my favorite model used during the heyday of trans-pacific flight in the 30s and before the war. They were the Concorde of their age (but more luxurious).

That is sooo cool! I love ALL things historical and of that era in time! I've always told my Dad that I was born at the wrong time in history! I would have done well if i had lived thru the 30's, 40's and 50's! There's just something about those eras that I have always loved and the begining stages of flight is one of those things! That's why I love all your pics and posts on your other hobby! Please keep posting info on this stuff as it interests the hell out of me!

I feel the same way! I too am enamored withe those glory days. However, I'd trade the 30's for the first half of the 60's. You can keep the depression and the hippie stuff.
For years now I've been living vicariously through the movies of that era. I wanna be Burt Lancaster or Cary Grant.

That airplane is so beautiful

PoliMalaka wrote:

sheraortho wrote:

Docrwm wrote:

sheraortho wrote:

That is really cool! It's also amazing the kind of information one can find by using just a tail number. What great info Doc!

Thanks, but there are several entire books just on the Pan Am flying boats. The 314 is my favorite model used during the heyday of trans-pacific flight in the 30s and before the war. They were the Concorde of their age (but more luxurious).

That is sooo cool! I love ALL things historical and of that era in time! I've always told my Dad that I was born at the wrong time in history! I would have done well if i had lived thru the 30's, 40's and 50's! There's just something about those eras that I have always loved and the begining stages of flight is one of those things! That's why I love all your pics and posts on your other hobby! Please keep posting info on this stuff as it interests the hell out of me!

I feel the same way! I too am enamored withe those glory days. However, I'd trade the 30's for the first half of the 60's. You can keep the depression and the hippie stuff.
For years now I've been living vicariously through the movies of that era. I wanna be Burt Lancaster or Cary Grant.

That airplane is so beautiful

I guess I'm not the only one that could have lived well in another time! I also would just as soon miss the hippie days. That's not a biggie for me at all. I also like the 30's too but the 40's -60's reall interest the hell out of me!

Utube video about the Pacific Clipper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms84WfJwalI&feature=player_embedded#

A civilian airliner, cut off from home by the outbreak of World War II,
makes a dash for freedom...

December 7, 1941. The Pacific Clipper, Queen of Pan American Airways
fleet of flying boats is 6 days out of San Francisco, bound for
Auckland, New Zealand. Captain Robert Ford receives a coded message:
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor...Implement War Plan A...Proceed to
Auckland, NZ...Maintain radio silence...Wait for instructions...Your
aircraft is a strategic resource-it must not fall into enemy hands under
any circumstances

Pan American Airways bases all across the Pacific were captured.
Returning to the US west coast by the Pacific Clipper did not seem
possible. A week of waiting, then another coded message:

DEC 14, 1941: Do not return to Hawaii. Do not return to US west
coast...Strip aircraft of all markings and identification...proceed
west...maintain radio silence...deliver aircraft to Marine Terminal,
LaGuardia, NY. Good luck,