Across the Pacific
2020 · PBS · 60 min · 1 season
S01E03 · Another Ocean
Fri, 5 June, 10:00 am
Defying the skeptics, Pan Am builds an airway to Asia, allowing the China Clipper to hopscotch across the world's widest ocean by landing at five stepping stone islands: Hawaii, Midway, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines.
About
Across the Pacific 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.
Episodes
- E01
Airborne
Fri, 22 May· 60 minAirline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airplane builder Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz join forces to build an airline to Latin America as Pan Am takes flight.
- E02
Latin Laboratory
Fri, 29 May· 60 minPan Am builds larger flying boats and harnesses radio for navigation as it dominates service to Latin America. Juan Trippe's plans to cross the Atlantic are dashed when Britain bars his planes from landing. So he sets his sights on the Pacific instead.
- E03
Another Ocean
Fri, 5 June· 60 minDefying the skeptics, Pan Am builds an airway to Asia, allowing the China Clipper to hopscotch across the world's widest ocean by landing at five stepping stone islands: Hawaii, Midway, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines.