Across the Pacific
2020-06-01
60 minutes.
Season - Episode
1
Season 1 May 18, 2020
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1 - 1Airborne May 18, 2020 -
1 - 2Latin Laboratory May 25, 2020 -
1 - 3Another Ocean Jun 01, 2020
Overview
Tells the story of a great milestone in aviation history: the 1935 crossing of the Pacific Ocean by a Pan American Airways flying boat known as the China Clipper. The documentary series recounts the development of this technological innovation – led by Pan Am’s chief executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airplane engineer Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz – with dramatic re-enactments, interviews with historians and biographers, and archival photographs, newsreel clips and film.
Year 2020
Studio
Director Stephen Lyons
Crew
Popularity 0.4999
Language English
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