Photograph of Pan American's "Yankee Clipper" on the Patapsco River en route to the Azores

Photograph of Pan American's "Yankee Clipper" on the Patapsco River en route to the Azores

image from page 1 of Pan American Air Ways, Vol. 10, No. 2, April 1939. Caption reads: "This striking photo shows Pan American's new Flagship skimming over the waters of the Patapsco River a moment before it lifted into the air to wing its way to the Azores - a 2,800-mile flight - which it accomplished with less than 50% horsepower at an average cruising speed of 160 m.p.h. - whith the largest number of persons - 21 - ever carried across an ocean in an airplane."

Pan American World Airways, Inc.

1939-04

Still Image

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1930-1939