If you like airplanes and some history ........

Spend 5 minutes or so and watch this story about a Boeing flying boat and the beginning of WW2.

The Long Way Home-The Pacific Clipper.m4v - YouTube

These were the days of luxury while flying instead of cattle car rides as they seem to be these days

Thanks Dave, neat video!!! Sure was a big old boat, wasn't it?

I wonder what the military used it for? Sub chaser? basic transport?

Thanks for the video... cool

Wow, cool story of an interesting aircraft. Thanks for the link.

Now I'm going to have to find out what became of that plane. I do recall recent studies about huge flying boats and I think they have favorable fuel efficiency compared to other means of carrying comparable loads at comparable speeds.

Good stuff David. For those interested, more info: Boeing 314 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia