Dining Room of Boeing Clipper
Pan Am Clipper flying boats were the first true intercontinental passenger airplanes; they crossed the Atlantic and Pacific and circled Latin America in the 1930′s and 1940′s.
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Air France began operating six Breguet 393T biplanes between Toulouse and Casablanca in 1934, on the first leg of the Air France service to South America.
Passengers: 10
Pilots: 2
Max. speed 249 km/h
Cruise speed 235 km/h
Wingspan 20.60 m
Length 14.76 m
Range 975 km
Take-off weight: 6,000 kg
Engines: 3 x Gnome-Rhone 7Kd Titan Major radial, 261kW
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Perhaps the most famous flying boat of all time, Pan American’s China Clipper was one of three Martin M-130′s operated by Pan Am. It made the first scheduled air mail flight across the Pacific in November, 1935.
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