Guam
Imagine yourself right now walking lazily across a sandy seaside, feeling the sand in between your toes as you gaze out on the glowing water. A four-sided sign, situated on Manhasset Stroll and sporting the silhouette of a Sikorsky S-forty two flying boat, synopsized Port Washington’s principle past industries, indicating that the eleven-acre site across the water, at Tom’s Point, had as soon as been the middle of a booming aviation enterprise with factories and had been the departure level of the first Pan American seaplane flight to Europe.
The second, supposed because the inaugural air mail flight and operated by the identical plane, occurred two months later, on Might 20, the 12th anniversary of Lindbergh’s solo crossing in the Spirit of St. Louis, disposing of at 1308 local time with 1,804 kilos of put up on board and peeling its ship-like hull off the waters of Manhasset Bay.
Piloted by Captain Rod Sullivan, who had beforehand operated the inaugural flight to Wake Island in the Pacific on board the S-forty two, the transatlantic B-314 “Dixie Clipper” inched away from the dock at 1500 local time with the eleven crew members, 22 passengers, and 408 kilos of mail.
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