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Across the Pacific 2020

  • Ended
  • PBS
  • 2020-05-19T01:00:00Z
  • 1h
  • 3h (3 episodes)
  • Stephen Lyons
  • United States
  • English
Tells the story of a great milestone in aviation history: the 1935 crossing of the Pacific Ocean by a Pan American Airways flying boat known as the China Clipper. The documentary series recounts the development of this technological innovation – led by Pan Am’s chief executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airplane engineer Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz – with dramatic re-enactments, interviews with historians and biographers, and archival photographs, newsreel clips and film.

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