The Plane That Accidentally Flew Around the World

Great men , great time 👌👌👌❤️

at 9.10 there's a short cut of a Curtiss P36. Is that a British one? Can you tell me where you found the footage?

dis some Indiana Jones shit. also it's important to know that regular automobile gasoline did not have 98 octane which is the standard today it could have as low as half of that.

distilling petroleum products wasnt easy. you try heating gasoline to boiling in a sealed vessel without killing yourself.

of course they got robbed in brazil that's on brand for Brazil.

I love seaplanes! :0)

That's why you shouldn't go to Brazil 😂

It's kind of amazing how Pan Am weren't just an airline, they were the airline.

As for the main subject of the video... this is truly the stuff of legends. The determination in the face of an unprecedented task. The careful planning of the best possible route. The incredible flying by the pilots - weaving through a gorge in a flying boat, with disabled ailerons no less! - and the deft on-the-fly adjustments by the engineer. And of course, some good old luck.

I wonder if the crew of that sub lived long enough to learn why a flying boat buzzed them out of nowhere.

The age of the flying boat may have ended after World War II, but I think the spirit of them was reborn in the 747.

Having the balls to use normal gas to cross an ocean is wild

Fascinating

Thanks!

I've known about the feat for a long time but never the details. This is an excellent documentary. Truly exciting to see. I've subscribed and looking to see more.

I think as far as names go Juan Trippe has to be the perfect name for a guy that owns a flight company 😂

There's a image of a similar plane to the clipper that crashed on Makin Atoll during WWII, The photo is men of the 27th Infantry Division looking at its wreck

Fantastic story, certainly worth a movie. I travelled to the English Air Museum many years ago having heard they had the last Clipper. Great place, but no Clipper.

They don't seem that big that if disassembled wings from the fuselage that they could have put the plane on a cargo ship back to America.

Moi j'adore tous propliners pour la terre et l"eau et moteurs a pistons et turboprop aussi. Mes favoris: dc-3,4,6,7, super connie, electra, pby consolifated catalina, grumman albatross, martin mars iljushin 14,18, antonov 2... .....

804 bidones...!!!
Saludos desde Pehuajó, Argentina...!!!

Tried to read that Medium article that's linked in your description, but it was blocked behind a paywall.

A fascinating trip and ordeal of the flying boat

Not at all surprised that the Brazilians stole everything 🤷‍♂️

Excuse me but the Pan American Clipper is an All-American concept so why don’t you use Miles instead or in addition to kilometers??? It’s not called the Pan-Asian nor Pan-European Clipper

804 jerry cans?

These dads weren`t lying about their journey going home from school

This crew and plane deserves to have their history told. Above and Beyond in all aspects.

Amazing....went from 'air ships' (zeppelin) to 'flying boats'.... always Remember... 'maid of the seas'.

This would have been an awesome flight to have been on if you had the time to enjoy it. I'd bet Pan Am took real good care of the passengers, food, drinks, and First Class service to go with.

wow that was one of the most interesting, exciting aviation stories I've ever heard, I can't believe I hadn't heard about this before

I’m surprised this wasn’t a movie, Hollywood during and right after ww2 would make movies of the obscure topics such as “Destination Gobi” about SACO US Navy sailors shooting rockets and riding horse back against Japanese troops in Inner Mongolia. As well as a film about the Dogmeat General and his ONE American concubine called “the bitter Tea with General Yen”

always like it when my tiny home country is mentioned in videos like this cuz we are mostly forgotten

Sorry but my mind doesn't work in liters we go by gallons in the USA

OMG, what an amazing story. What a nail biting trip. This should have been adapted for a movie.

Well done. I enjoyed this.

Thanks!

Definitely needs a movie made of this incredible feat !!!

A great tale of flying from the "golden age" of flight.

This was a trip from start to finish.

Wow 🤩. Amazing, informative and entertaining. Great video. And, yes would make a spectacular movie 🎥

Someone needs to make this a movie

These guys flew across the world and were basically provided fuel and supplies for nothing because the respect for the United States was so strong and widespread...unfortunately thanks to Biden there would be no chance in hell of this happening again!!

I recall reading the 2018 story and this adds to it. No doubt this was one of the greatest feats of airmanship along with some critical luck. The Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia is still used today, mainly by Spirit Airlines. For decades, it was primarily used for the LGA to DCA and BOS shuttle flights. The exterior and interior still has great and preserved art deco design features and a mural inside including the Clippers. PanAm's Headquarters was from its inception to the late 1980's in NYC so why the plane had to return there.

The Clippers were still in service in the late 1940's. I know a woman who was a toddler on one as her parents were going to Africa to be missionaries. In several trips my mother's family made between the USA and Brazil, only the last one in 1949 was by air. Wouldn't surprise me it was on a Clipper.

How is this not a movie? :O

I felt my butthole literally clenching during the canyon section o_o

803.5 twentry litre jerry cans of 100 octaine military av gas is what is needed to fuel a B-314 flying boat.

I kept wondering what happened to the passengers. Did I miss something?

Why could t they just fly back the normal way? It’s not like the Japanese were occupying Hawaii after the attack

Would be really awesome if Boeing could rebuild Clippers, and they could be put into service with all of the luxury and service that they had in the 1930's, but, in addition to all the latest safety standards, it would be powered with GE Catalyst or CT7 turboprops 😍😍😍

If i was millionaire/billionaire od so have an old seaplane. Like a sib hunter. Long ramge simple. Maybe adapt a hydrofoil system for rough water landings. Man