My family flew me from Miami to Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1941 as a six-month-old to take up a post as a United Church missionary in Trinidad. I don't remember that trip, but I do remember coming b...
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My grandmother was married to Henry Spenceley in the 1960's who was an American who grew up in France in his mother's ancestral home in Brittany. He left France in 1941 with his parents after the...
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To Larry Rioberts, My Dad Tom White Sr (I am Junior) was a Pan Am pilot stationed in Brownsville in 1940. I was born in April 1940 in Brownsville - two and one half weeks after the first Boeing 3...
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As a young boy in San Francisco, I remember watching the Clippers taxi out from treasure Island. Took them quite a while to get airborne, made a heck of a noise, and flew under the Golden gate on...
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Great fun reading these posts. Many names are familiar to me. My father, Dutch Dysinger, was a Flight Engineer for Pan Am for 34 yrs. He retired 1974. I have been trying to find a home for his me...
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In 1956 I flew from San Francisco to Honolulu on what I remember as a Pan Am flying boat. It was a four prop plane. I clearly recall landing on water. Yet as far as I can see, all flying boats ha...
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My father was a Naval Officer and our family lived in Honolulu. We experienced the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As my mother was pregnant with my to be sister, my mother, brother and I were f...
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What was a typical airfare on a clipper flight? E.g., trams-Atlantic) Thanks.
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In reply to mark bpmd. Hello Mark, Another pilot from that era is Bill Nash. I think he is about 96 years old. I quoted...
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I remember an old black and white flim from maybe the 20s -40s about someone starting a flying boat service out of florida, I've always wanted to see that film again. Can you tell me the name of ...
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