It was about exploring new frontiers with adventure, romance, and sometimes danger. The Boeing 314 Clipper was a long-range flying boat produced by the Boeing Airplane Company between 1938 and 1941.

At the time, the Boeing 314 was considered state-of-the-art technology. The letter was explicit: If the crew could not deliver the Pacific Clipper to the American military due to attack or ...

Roosevelt, in the midst of the World War II, celebrated his 61st birthday on board the Boeing Model 314, better known as the Clipper. The Clipper, named for an especially fast kind of sailing ship ...

As Ken Follett wrote in his 1991 novel “Night Over Water,” the Boeing 314 Clipper, named after the 19th-century sailing vessel, was “the most romantic plane ever made … it was enormous ...

Boeing’s B-314 flying boats, which were rolled out in 1939, weren’t the first in Pan American World Airways’ Clipper fleet, but they were considered by many to be the ultimate in Clipper luxury.