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.
| Title | Across the Pacific |
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| First Air Date | 2020-05-18 |
| Last Air Date | 2020-06-01 |
| Number of Episodes | 3 |
| Number of Seasons | 1 |
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