Boeing 314 Documentary

[@1943rhody]

My father was at the first ever launching of the very first 314. He was a commercial radio announcer/engineer covering the launch. It was the single tail stabilizer. I have my fathers photos that he took and have given copies to the Seattle Museum of flight for their archives.

[@airestesshistory8100]

Great summary of the Boeing 314! But one issue that I have is that the travel path of the Pacific Clipper. After departing from Auckland, they picked up some Pan Am personnel in Noumea, New Caledonia before landing in Gladstone, Australia, then Darwin after flying across the Outback. They then landed in Surabaya, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), where they had to use automotive gas due to a lack of 100 octane fuel before reaching Trincomalee, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) before making another stop in Karachi, in what is now Pakistan. Next stop was Bahrain before landing in Khartoum, Sudan after crossing the Arabian peninsula. In order to avoid the Sahara desert, they landed in Leopoldville, Belgian Congo (now Kinshana, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Then they crossed the south Atlantic, landing in Natal, Brazil, before finally arriving in New York City via Port of Spain, Trinidad. I know that was long winded, but I saw that the map of the route taken was inaccurate. I know it takes a lot to make a video like this, but I wanted to let you know that. There are several sources on this topic, but other than this inaccuracy, good job on the video! Love the footage you got in here.

[@peadarocolmain4850]

Hello from Ireland. I went on board the replica with my son P.J. recently. Well worth a visit. I was going to attach a little video clip but it doesn't seem to want me to.

[@bobwaller8359]

During the war, three Boeing B. 314s were operated by BOAC across the Atlantic, G-AGCA Berwick, G-AGCB Bangor and G-AGBZ Bristol. Foynes was one port of call.

[@makotokatahira]

ボーイング314クリッパーは文句なしにカッコイイ。堂々たる機体の造形美は世界一。

[@Borzoi86]

Read "The Long Way Home" by Ed Dover to learn about the Pacific Clipper's epic flight back to NYC via Africa in December, 1941. The book was published in 2008 and is a great read.

[@johnwang9914]

To top it off, the airline was unable to forward funds to the crew so they had to borrow $500 dollars from a sympathetic Australian banker and that was all they had to buy fuel for the trip home. They had to fuel the plane by hand with Jerry cans and often had to use automobile fuel in hopes that the engine would not blow up, they did lose one cylinder and had trouble with another engine both of which they had to repair with whatever they could find, they were shot at by all sides, and robbed in Brazil. Truly an epic journey. Keep in mind that navigation was all by dead reckoning with visual recognition at certain points and they did not have detailed maps of Europe, Africa or South America.

[@junisulli7777]

Wish Hollywood would make a movie of something like this story, and less cartoony crap.

@@junisulli7777 .....You can see the Pan Am Clipper in the movies "Weekend in Havana" with Alice Faye, John Payne, Carmen Miranda and Cesar Romero (on YT) and "Now Voyager" with Bette Davis and Paul Henreid (when Bette Davis leaves Rio de Janeiro).

[@BillJulieGriffith]

Great job!!.......... sad that only 12 of these great aircraft were ever produced.

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

How did Boeing make any money off only building twelve of them?

[@jimmypeters]

@@k3D4rsi554maq Large civilian flying boats were a high price, low-volume production item, Martin had produced only three M-130 Clippers, Sikorsky only three S-40's and ten S-42's; all were considered successful designs. Transoceanic flight was limited to the wealthy until technology allowed safer and more efficient land planes the necessary range to completely take over their routes after WW2. On the other hand, US military flying boats were produced in the thousands during WW2 and, repurposed for various peacetime civilian purposes, flew for decades, and a handful still do.

[@traskstoneworks]

I flew one of these to NZ when I was a child, I almost cried when Pan Am went under.

[@alexm566]

how old are you?

[@traskstoneworks]

@@alexm566 I'm 69

[@traskstoneworks]

@Big Bill O'Reilly No I was a kid about 5 or 6

[@traskstoneworks]

@Big Bill O'Reilly I should have said I flew in one of these! I remember going on this floating walkway to board and remember stopping at many of the pacific islands on the way back to America. When I started commercial fishing in Alaska we flew to Kodiak from Seattle in Connies and Electra's the got on Grumman goose or widgeon to fly to Larsen's bay.

[@rongendron8705]

Me too! In 1979, on my family's return from Hawaii on TWA, stopping at LAX, we were "bumped" off the plane & would have to wait 11 or more hours for another flight! A Pan Am flight from India had also stopped on its way to New York & London! When I asked if we (4) persons could go to N.Y. with them, they happily said "yes" & we arrived only an hour late! We lost the greatest airline in the World with Pan Am!

[@gilzor9376]

I love this plane, thanks for the time you put into this video (audio is a bit messed up, esp. through the big screen, better on PC). Definitely worth the watch. I would love to walk through it in real life, despite being a replica. Surely don't think I'll ever get the chance to go to Ireland though. Maybe someday, somebody will do a thorough walk through video of her. Thanks again!👍

[@jimsonbrown9768]

I missed the golden age of everything and I'm pissed.

[@Musique61414]

You have the golden shower from Trump now.

[@videogameplayer0552]

This is a golden age.

[@davesteadman1226]

It was a great time if you were a wealthy, White, male, heterosexual. Anything outside that category and life was a struggle.

[@traskstoneworks]

Jimson, it was great! I remember when my brother and I arrived in New Zealand people asked us "what was it like to fly in a jet" You couldn't land a 707 in auckland so we went from Hono down in a DC 6 many stops along the way, it was February in Portland where we left from and getting off the plane in one of the many stop overs in Fiji was like stepping into a blast furnace. Today flying is like getting into a cattle car, no class at all.

[@vsetenjoyer]

@@Musique61414 A fellow Republican I see, very nice.

[@axellajohannesson447]

Thank you. This is my favourite aircraft ever!

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

Yeah, it's an awesome plane.

[@russg1801]

Pity that one of these wasn't preserved in Hawaii; it would be a huge tourist draw!

[@stevebenedict6314]

Good job guys... this is my favorite plane - I think the one you mentioned in Ireland is a replica, not a real B314 - but who cares. I love the comment "I missed the golden age of everything" - I couldn't agree more. My wife and kids always say, you should have lived back during the greatest generation like your dad. Thanks again. more, more!

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

They don't seem too concerned with the safety of their passengers, though.

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

.or cramming in as many as they can.

[@paulhicks3595]

Pan Am did not operate the 314 to Australia but only as far as Auckland NZ. There was one that visited Australia but it only because Pearl Harbour had been attacked and it could only return to the US from Auckland by flying west around the world. It did not go near Europe but crossed those longitudes via Africa.

[@bertcushman7427]

my mom, and dad both worked for pan American in the 50s/60s. I remember my dad taking me to the dinner key terminal in coconut grove as a kid, really cool! dinner key auditorium became a big venue for concerts later on. saw Jim Morrison and the doors in the infamous 69 concert! just think, all clippers once flew out there at one time... history can be so bazzar!!!

[@markdorais2846]

Excellent. Thank you so much for sharing

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

Yes, this is a really good video.

[@seebafilms8530]

My Uncle Alexander Barratt was on these during his time with ImperialAirways/BOAC and RAF Transport command. He gave me some notes before he died but I didn't have a chance to ask him all the questions that we would like to ask now.

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

Yes, that's really sad.

[@IanSmith-f3w]

Why no mention of the Bermuda Sky Queen? I believe that this was a 314. If my memory is correct, it was around about 1947, when it came down in mid Atlantic, during a storm. Although a ship was nearby, I think it was a light ship, called the Bib, it took 3 days of tossing about in rough seas, before the passengers and crew could be rescued. All survived. It was, I think stated that it was the stub floats, adjacent to the fuselage, that gave it the strength and stability to survive the terrible pounding that it received. I was a boy, at the time, but have vivid memories of this event. Someone correct me, if I have got it all wrong. Memories do play tricks over time.

[@paulhicks3818]

The return to America map animation is incorrect. The route went from Egypt to the Congo river and on from there to South America and thence North to New York. Also the 314 in Ireland is just replica. No 314's exist today.

[@orcstr8d]

Paul Hicks you really are a cold hearted anti-romantic. There still could be a lumbering 314 flying somewhere out there and getting ready to make an awesome splash landing. One just has to watch for it.

[@pec0629]

I guess we Pauls are just destined to be cold hearted. There were only 12 ever made, and they're all gone. Enumerated here: tinyurl.com/ya5wgto3 Sorry, I'd love it if there were still a couple around.

[@antman5474]

I've got one, I'll see if I can dig it out.

[@fartboxer22]

Paul Hicks you are correct. I noticed that as well.

[@andrewarmstrong7310]

And they flew a seaplane across Austrailia to Darwin, who was under attack from Japan. That is significant enough as the B-314 had no landing gear.

[@stephennowinsky4171]

Why was not even one B-314 Clipper saved they were such historical Aircraft.

[@adoatero5129]

The music on the video is much too loud compared to the speech. The problem is common on KZbin vidoes, but on this video it goes to ridiculous levels.

[@zakofrx]

Where did you manage to source the original photographs of the plane from?

[@globaldronenews]

via secure.boeingimages.com/archive/Boeing-314-Clipper-Gains-Speed-for-Takeoff-2F3XC5YC6HM.html

[@wooderdsaunders6801]

Great job

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

Yeah, well done.

[@Musique61414]

Well done. The voice over sounds amateur, but you can hear real potential.

[@brucelucas1756]

When you compare the flying experience aboard a plane like this and what you get on modern aircraft, I think I'd rather have the pleasure of reviving this style of air travel. Especially when you consider that they're doing so with airships. I feel that the world could use a more romanticized experience in such a stressful life.

[@30twodor]

if you want to read a good book that has this plane as the center piece, read, 'Night Over Water' by Ken Follet.

[@eltonalphonso2727]

Came here after reading that.

[@johndaly8060]

Yep I really enjoyed that book. A friend and I went to see the replica in Foynes near Limerick in Ireland a couple of years back. Well worth seeing, the plane interior and flight deck is very realistic and the connected museum had uniforms (people were way smaller back then) radio equipment etc from that period and much more.

[@musketeeramigo1177]

i came here after reading the same book.

[@stanleydomalewski8497]

It was a Magnificent Machine, and So Was the Martin and Sikorsky Pan am Flying Boats !

[@jackaustin3576]

The Martin M130 made the pioneer flight from California to Hong Kong....

[@paultiffanyrutherford5898]

Where is the MOVIE?!

[@jonmacdonald5345]

It looks like the plane Baloo flew on Tailspin!

[@Blue-pw8uo]

Lmao yeah

[@Larry-ct5mg]

The route you showed for the circumnavigation was incorrect.

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

I wonder, was that boat the fifth one built?

[@hann4158]

Yg Dateng ke sini gara" Vincent Aditiya Like!

[@Mishnplant]

what a nice beat whats the beatname???

[@thomascremens]

Futurmission 50's Manhattan by Jesse James

[@slickwoodworker3023]

You might want to listen to your videos BEFORE you publish them.....I had to raise and lower the sound many times. How difficult can it be to have the volume be the same throughout the entire video??

[@therighthonourabletimothy5448]

Bring back the 'Clipper'

[@apuuvah]

Was thinking "Charity Flights"...I mean...load 'er up with a couple of celebrities and 20 people at a time to wine and dine for a couple of hours flight and pick a local charity for each flight...50 000€ a pop.

[@diabeticalien3584]

Sweet! I kinda wanna do that but with other vintage planes, like a Connie or even a Stratocruiser.

[@traskstoneworks]

I flew a lot of connies and eletras to Kodiak in the 60's

[@videogameplayer0552]

It has a terrible safety record.

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

I'd suppose that sponsons also act as aerofoils.

[@garyodle5663]

The DC-3 was of 314's time and I think it even had a greater impact. Not to say the 314 wasn't great; it was. I just doubt that it was the greatest of its time.

[@rosairedubrule60]

they still fly Dc 3

[@charlieramonesbackingtrack8876]

Get your facts straight! That's not the route it took from NZ

[@alfredomandolfo2617]

If I am not wrong AIR FORCE was not existing at that time.

[@fabiooliveira8940]

Just imagine if they put this monster on the new Flight Simulator.

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

That is a great idea.

[@daigriffiths399]

All the interior flight deck views are of a Martin M-130 and a Sikorsky S-42. There are no Boeing B-314 or B-314A views.

[@kriley9386]

Dai, if you are sure of that, then this video is pretty lame.

[@daigriffiths399]

@@kriley9386 Absolutely sure. I've spent four years building the B-314 in software for a number of the flight simulators out there. Was asked to do the M-130/S-42 as well but turned that contract down because there really isn't sufficient information about either aircraft.

[@PELOPOR.WISATA]

Yg liat video ini gara gara konten capt.vincent like👍

[@jamesricker3997]

The most successful and last successful flying boat

[@PrataNdu]

Siapa yg kesini hapis nonton kapten Vincent Raditya

[@andygerman285]

Sky gods: The Fall of Pan Am. Is worth a read. Brilliant airline while it lasted.

[@traskstoneworks]

Thanks Andy. I was just a kid but those stewardess's were hot!

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

However, they'll be forever flying to the moon.

[@Tadrjbs]

They should bring it back to USA!

[@haekalpramadhan4728]

Pov: lu kesini karena capt vincent

[@jackaustin3576]

I have an 18x24 framed picture of a 314 hanging on my den wall being loaded with passengers....

[@N34RT]

"floon"? "... highly suggest..." should be either "highly recommend" or "strongly suggest"... otherwise the video footage and photos are excellent. Thanks.

[@d0g3br34d]

brois this plane is oilds

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

I dream of building modern-day replicas of these birds.

[@davemusikoff151]

I'll never understand why on earth even ONE of those beautiful Boeing 314's wasn't preserved. What were they thinking?!@@k3D4rsi554maq

[@Beemer917]

Does anyone know if Juan Trippe was really as much of a bastard as he was portrayed as being in The Aviator?

[@globaldronenews]

Christian Petersen that’s the best comment I’ve seen

[@k3D4rsi554maq]

Yes, indeed.

[@MH-fb5kr]

flewn… really?