NEW GIANT CLIPPER ON FIRST TEST FLIGHT.—A new Boeing clipper plane with a new twin rudder tail assembly, pictured in graceful flight over Seattle, Washington. On the flight, the ship carried a gross weight of 77,5001 b, the greatest weight ever carried by an American aircraft. She was tested "by Pilot Edmund T. Allen, and a crew of five engineers and designers. This is the machine which will be used for the San Francisco-Auckland Service when it has completed the tests of the United States Bureau of Commerce, and of Pan-American Airways’ engineers. The service is expected to be resumed early in the New Year.
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Evening Star, Issue 23093, 20 October 1938, Page 18
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105NEW GIANT CLIPPER ON FIRST TEST FLIGHT.—A new Boeing clipper plane with a new twin rudder tail assembly, pictured in graceful flight over Seattle, Washington. On the flight, the ship carried a gross weight of 77,500lb, the greatest weight ever carried by an American aircraft. She was tested "by Pilot Edmund T. Allen, and a crew of five engineers and designers. This is the machine which will be used for the San Francisco-Auckland Service when it has completed the tests of the United States Bureau of Commerce, and of Pan-American Airways’ engineers. The service is expected to be resumed early in the New Year. Evening Star, Issue 23093, 20 October 1938, Page 18
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