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Across the Pacific
2020 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Stephen Lyons
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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As I read this I thought it sounded familiar. The story is based largely on the book The Long Way Home:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00457XJ2K/
The author acknowledges this at the end of part three and recommends that you buy the book. I recommend it too.
If you are interested in the story of the China Clippers and other flying boats, I also recommend the mini docudrama series Across the Pacific:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0887SGVPX/
And the fun movie China Clipper:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FGI69ZG/