Clipper Outpulls Tug in Power Test on Surface
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Just before the new Boeing Clipper took off for its first flight recently, it engaged in a tug of war on the waters of Puget Sound with a tugboat. The Clipper won. With the tug's engine in reverse, the four 1600-horsepower engines of the transoceanic flying boat easily pulled it forward. The purpose of the maneuver was to keep the Clipper from taking off while its motoxs were turned on for a full power test. On the actual takeoff the big ship lifted itself from the water after a 1,000-foot run. This was the first of six new Clippers built for Pan American Airways.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Clipper Outpulls Tug in Power Test on Surface
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Clipper Outpulls Tug in Power Test on Surface
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1941-07
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
-
Popular Mechanics, v. 76, n. 1, 1941
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 13
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- United States of America
