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...fuel. At the controls, First Officer Fred Miller, 47, went through the pre-takeoff checklist with Captain Charles Kimes, 44, a freckled, sandy-haired veteran of 16,000 flying hours who had elected to let Miller handle the takeoff. Finally, the airport tower radioed: "Clipper 843 cleared for takeoff." Thirty-five seconds later, the 266,631-lb. plane was airborne, rocketing over busy Bayshore Freeway, which borders the north end of the airport, and climbing toward a break in the hunchbacked hills of the San Francisco peninsula-and the open Pacific beyond. At that instant, Flight 843 became a nightmare...
...plane from the lumbering Clipper seaplanes to the 1,500-m.p.h. Concorde with which the airline hopes to fly the Atlantic in 21 hours in 1970. Shy and painfully retiring as always, Lindy was nowhere to be found by the newsmen who wanted to talk to him, and the latest picture anyone could find was one taken...
...York Control said: "All right, at three miles north of Dutch is Clipper [Pan American Flight] 212 descending to 4,000." A minute later, the Eastern aircraft, piloted by Captain Frederick R. Carson, 41, rose over the ocean. "How does he shape up with that boy coming in . . . the guy at his 1 o'clock position?" asked New York Control. "We're above him," said the radar operator at the airport. Actually Flight 663 was well below Pan American's 212 at the time-but traffic controllers corrected their error almost instantly. Shortly after...
...Turkey, the Grand Prix auto race at Monaco, the jet pace of life aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Shangri-La-there are some snappy stretches in this Cinerama travelogue, but there are plenty of languid interludes too. The film's ports of call are those of The Flying Clipper, a barkentine of the Swedish Merchant Marine manned by 20 student cadets on a Mediterranean cruise out of Goteborg. Climbing the pyramids, throwing snowballs in Lebanon or striding through the courtyards of Hagia Sophia, the boys appear to consider shore leave a time for exercise. The shallow narration, sung...
...handful of working apprentices. Webb Institute's founder, William Henry Webb, learned the business from his father Isaac, a flourishing New York shipbuilder of the early 1800s. Taking over in 1840, he turned out 138 major vessels during the next three decades. Among them were the clipper ships Challenge, which had a 210-ft. mainmast (the tallest ever built) with almost three acres of sail, and the Comet, which set the record (76 days) for sailing round the Horn from San Francisco to New York...