As a young schoolboy I made a model seaplane , read about Biggles and his seaplane exploits in seaplanes .at 70, still find them fascinating planes. Especially clippers

Thank you for this historic footage, particularly of Bermuda where I am from. At 42 minutes into this video s Boeing 314 lands to arrive at Darrells Island passing the shoreline where, fifteen years later, my parents built a pleasant waterfront home.

I was very fortunate to fly the PBY and the Grumman Mallard and Goose. Wonderful experience which I will never forget.

Master Mariners of the air. Those were the Clipper pilots.

To bad that the sound can nt be heared properly!! I love aviation, and my father was one of the very few people I can talk about these matters where I am living. As he is developing dementia, no more talks, so now more than ever, I wtch all the videos on this subject. Love Aviation and Aerospace. Love to learn. Thanks you for your videos, and for staying around!!

EXCELLENT! AMAZING! EXCITING VIDEO!!!!! Thank you for posting this video.

The Boeing 314 is featured heavily in Ken Follett's novel Night Over Water, set just as WWII is starting in 1939.

@167curly

2 ай бұрын

A favorite Follet novel.

@afzaalkhan.m

Ай бұрын

A delightful novel,recommended for all

Interesting, although the music.... Rick Grant's dream of restoring and flying the Solent commercially never came to fruition. It's a museum display now.

@scofab

10 ай бұрын

Watching that I thought it must be so... given not only the travel situation these days but also the astronomical costs that would be incurred. And the insurance premiums would no doubt be off the scale. Still... a fantastic dream.

@167curly

2 ай бұрын

In the 1980s that Short Solent was flown from the Caribbean to Bermuda for a few days before flying to England on the northern route. I enjoyed being out in my boat watching it start up its engines, taxying to take off and fly a farewell circuit. Quite thrilling.

The Do.X barely 'flew' at all. Even in the clip you show, the aircraft is flying in ground effect rather than flying 'properly'. Just FYI: the interior shots of passengers eating, sleeping, etc. and crew working are taken from a Pan Am advertorial (!!!) film called 'China Clipper'. None of those shots were taken in flight and the 'passengers' were all PAAS (Pan American Airways Systems) employees. The range quoted for the Boeing Model 314 (3500 miles) is really incorrect. The longest commericial leg flown by the 314 was 2410 miles from San Francisco to Oahu. The range of Model 314-A (not the 314) was quoted by Boeing as 3500 miles but they failed to qualify that as 'full fuel and NO payload'.

Excellent Video !

Way better than ocean gate.

Great footage!!!

Though not about the Americas, Alexander Frater has written the excellent "Beyond the blue horizon" about Imperial Airways and their routes to the far east using flying boats in the 20's& 30's.

@tomakers8652

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment. I'll look into that.

Happy Birthday fella, are these flights going on patrols or training runs down the mach loop etc?

Large seaplanes are still being built and flying ... look up the AGC600

Crossing the Atlantic was easy compared to crossing the massive Pacific.

Why no closed caption? (cc)

Hey! Trace the route of the B-314 at the beginning of WW-2. Wouldn't you just love to take that round the world flight?

Great footage of wonderful planes - too bad it neglected to mention the fact that all 3 Martin clippers were lost in fatal crashes . . . . .

@jpotter2086

9 ай бұрын

It's a romance, going to gloss over the negatives. It did mention-in passing!-that the Hawaii Clipper disappearred.

Look at the luxury?? Today we are considered homeless to them

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The Plane Flying Boat Is To Short And Little Capacity, Angine To Little Need More Big And Powered ( 4 Angine ) , _ Thanks All, .... Cheerio.*****.