Boeing 314 Overnight to Hawaii

[RatherBeFlying]

TransPac Clipper

It's a 50 minute YT.

As a kid I flew to Hawaii on 377 and DC-7. They were slow enough and much less panache, but the 377 flight deck was big with at least four crew. I remember the nav using his sextant.

[washoutt]

?? There is no link to the You Tube in RatherBeFlying's post. Or is my pc revolting?

[Liffy 1M]

Here it is the link again.

You Tube

[treadigraph]

Originally Posted by washoutt

?? There is no link to the You Tube in RatherBeFlying's post. Or is my pc revolting?

I can see it ok Washoutt...

I'd have been happy flying to Hawaii - or anywhere - in a Stratocruiser or a DC-7... bliss, albeit noisy bliss... Shame the 314 is just a footnote in history now.

[chevvron]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

I can see it ok Washoutt...

I'd have been happy flying to Hawaii - or anywhere - in a Stratocruiser or a DC-7... bliss, albeit noisy bliss... Shame the 314 is just a footnote in history now.

I saw one in 1956; it was moored next to the Queen Elizabeth in Southampton Royal Dock ie NOT just across the water at Hythe although there were several Sunderland derivatives moored there too.
What an area for flying boats that was in those days with the Princess boats beached at Calshot too (we were on a boat from Southsea for a tour of the docks)

[Herod]

Washout; I'm also getting blanks, and not just on this forum. I gather there is a solution, but I don't know it. Anyone??

[treadigraph]

Originally Posted by chevvron

I saw one in 1956; it was moored next to the Queen Elizabeth in Southampton Royal Dock ie NOT just across the water at Hythe

The 314s had all been scrapped or crashed by 1952, BOACs when back to the US after the war; what did you see I wonder...?

[RatherBeFlying]

You Tube

[RatherBeFlying]

youtu.be/tneNPSEy17U

[WHBM]

Must be a bug in the PPRuNe software (probably dependent on which browser/device you are using). The link is blank for me too, in all the multiple attempts above, but if you click 'Quote' on the post you then see the clickable link shown with the rest of the message, and can get it from there.

The commentary, with excessive adjectives, sounds just like what Peter Sellers parodied in "Balham, gateway to the South".

[megan]

Video shows OK for me using all the posted links above on Firefox.

[DH106]

I'm using Firefox, but can't see any of the links - except the partial link in post #9

[Herod]

Thanks, WHBM. A long-winded way, but it works. Also thanks megan. I'm using Chrome, so maybe I should switch to Firefox for Pprune. It's especially frustrating on the War in Ukraine thread.

[washoutt]

I am also using firefox and still have blanks. But using "Quote" does show the link, and copying it gives that wonderfull film on 314 clippers. It must therefore be a Firefox problem, if other browser have no problems. No, Chrome also doesn't show the link, just checked

[treadigraph]

Video clips showing and playing in Android Chrome on me phone and I could see them in Win 11 Chrome on my laptop yesterday. The link at #9 doesn't appear to be live. Curiouser and curiouser said Alice.

[chevvron]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

The 314s had all been scrapped or crashed by 1952, BOACs when back to the US after the war; what did you see I wonder...?

Well it was a 4 engined boat, it was marked Pan Am and it was 1956 so what did I see? As I said it was on the side where the liners were moored not on the other side at Hythe.
As for the video clip, I use chrome and it doesn't show, not even a link.

[DHfan]

I don't use Chrome as I don't install spyware, but trying three different Chromium-based browsers - Brave, Opera and Vivaldi, Vivaldi is the only one that works.

My normal browser is Pale Moon and that's worked since the initial post.

[treadigraph]

Pan Am definitely out of the flying boat boat business a decade before then and id think Aquila were the only passenger operator in the UK at that point. Big Short flying boat painted up for a film maybe?

[chevvron]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

Pan Am definitely out of the flying boat boat business a decade before then and id think Aquila were the only passenger operator in the UK at that point. Big Short flying boat painted up for a film maybe?

No definitely a different design of boat to one of the Shorts types which, as I said, were all across the other side of the water.
Course I was only 7 years old then (you weren't even born) so although I remember some of the detail like how the announcer on the tour boat said it was an 'American' flying boat I don't remember it all.
I believe there was a sort of 'control tower' on one of the dock piers but whether that's still there I don't know, I haven't been on Southampton Water since about 1990 when Plesseys kindly took some of us controllers across to Cowes (once Cowes West airfield but by then the Plessey factory) on the hydrofoil to look at the then new Watchman radar which we were getting at Farnborough.

[DHfan]

What big flying boats were still extant then apart from the Short boats and the Princess(es)?

I'm certain I saw the cocooned hulks of the Princesses from a boat trip from the Isle of Wight and up Southampton Water but that would have been a few years later - 1960-61 at a guess.
I've long been convinced I took a photograph of them with my first camera but I've never been able to find it.