
Six days to cross the Pacific? It always looked so quick in Raiders of the Lost Ark …
Hopping across the ocean / SFO throwing party for fondly remembered ‘flying boats’:
“They flew 150 miles per hour and took six days to reach the Far East from the Bay Area, and everyone thought that was simply marvelous. They were Pan American Airways’ famous Clipper planes, and they flew headlong into aviation history 70 years ago this month, inaugurating the now-thriving business of intercontinental aviation.”

