Boeing built 12 of the massive long-range 314 flying boats for Pan American ... Pan Am had this cut-away drawing of the soon to fly Dixie Clipper before its maiden transatlantic flight.

Roosevelt flew to Casablanca aboard the Dixie Clipper, a Boeing 314 -- making the 314 the effectively the very first "Air Force One." (They didn't call it that, of course. Not least because at the ...

The author’s note that concludes this trans-Atlantic flight of fancy tells us that only 12 Boeing ... 314 aircraft and variants were made. President Franklin Roosevelt got to fly the Dixie ...

At the time, the Boeing 314 was considered state-of-the-art technology. The letter was explicit: If the crew could not deliver the Pacific Clipper to the American military due to attack or ...

As Ken Follett wrote in his 1991 novel “Night Over Water,” the Boeing 314 Clipper, named after the 19th-century sailing vessel, was “the most romantic plane ever made … it was enormous ...

314 Clipper. Down the ways at the Boeing plant in Seattle fortnight ago the largest U. S. seaplane ever built slipped gently into the narrow Duwamish Waterway. The launching of the 41-ton ...

Roosevelt, in the midst of the World War II, celebrated his 61st birthday on board the Boeing Model 314, better known as the Clipper. The Clipper, named for an especially fast kind of sailing ship ...

Boeing’s B-314 flying boats, which were rolled out in 1939, weren’t the first in Pan American World Airways’ Clipper fleet, but they were considered by many to be the ultimate in Clipper luxury.

James D. O’Neal was a quiet adventurer with the perfect vehicles at his command: A Pan American World Airways Dixie Clipper, and later the Boeing Stratocruiser. O’Neal of Winter Park ...