Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-01-28 | Page 2 | Mammoth Air Clipper Soars to S. F.

Mammoth Air Clipper Soars to S. F. ' , - ' . ssnaniana , . ' . j i 74-PASSENGER PLANE HOPS OFF FROM SEATTLE ON "SHAKEDOWN" I This ait-boat, twice as large as Chin a Clipper, is one of six being built Th DOX-8 also was a seaplane. It was powered by sight motors, in four tandem sets. It crossed th Atlantlo sevsral year ago, wracked, and was shipped back in boxes. Airmen said it required so much space for gasoline that thers was little left for passengers and cargo. Th 100-passenger Maxim Gorky, Gor-ky, a land plane, crashed on it maiden flight. i SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28 (UP) - America' greatest bid for trana-i trana-i ocsanic air aupremacy arrive today to-day on It leisurely "shakedown" flight to China. It I th Pan Amsrican Air- - way's 74-passenger Boeing Clip- per plane, twice the sise of the China Clipper and sister flying I boat that Opened transpacific air travel. It waa accepted by the Airway company yesterday at As toria, Ore., where It waa flown from Seattle. The super Clipper Is ths first of six being built by Boeing for Pan American. Only two larger planea ever were built, Germany's giant DOX-5 and Ruaaia's Maxim Gorky. Both were wrecked. Air xpert aaid both wer "ahead of their time" and that neither approached ap-proached th efficiency and ser-viceablanea ser-viceablanea of ths Boeing Clipper.