Jet Clip 100 Seventeen Lane Across Atlantic
Pan American Jet Clip 100 carries 26 passengers from Idlewild to London in under seven hours. Captain Jake Marcum, a veteran pilot at Pan Am, nearing 400 transatlantic crossings, pilots PA721 nicknamed Splendid. The Boeing 707, three years old, flies at about 600 mph with 5,000 mile range.
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Jake Marcum
Huntington
Long Island
Marcum
Pan American World Airways
New York
Atlantic
London
Pan American
Idlewild
Boeing Airplane Co
Seattle
Wash
Honolulu
Jakarta
Tokyo
Fairbanks
Alaska
Clipper 100
Birgitta Lagvall
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Walter Chris
Preflight for Clippe r 100 Ends With Unexpected Brake Issue
Marcum prepares Jet Clipper 100 for London flight from Idlewild. Crew includes First Officer Ralph Hunt and Purser Pat King. A tow-bar pin snap delays takeoff briefly after a tow truck misalignment, then the aircraft heads to the runway for clearance and departure.
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London
Ralph Hunt
Frank Baker
Pursers
Virgil Hardison
Marcum
Purser
Pat King
Pat Hurl
Hunt
Takeoff and transatlantic flight of Clipper 100
The crew of Clipper 100, led by Captain Marcum with Navigator Baker, powers to a climb and crosses the Atlantic at 33,000 feet Mach 0.82. They navigate by Loran and Consolan signals toward Belfast, facing deteriorating Irish weather and a 1,000 foot ceiling before landing plans near London.
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Marcum
Baker
Jamaica Bay
Halifax
Cape Breton Island
Gander
Atlantic
Cadiz
Hunt
Consolan Radio
Bushmills
North
Angmagssalik
Greenland
Sandur
Iceland
London
Idlewild
Killard
Northern Ireland
Nantucket
Belfast
Capt
Irish Sea
Isle of Man
Hack Green Radar
Liverpool
Clipper 100 Lands in London After Swift Flight
The Clipper 100 arrives at London Heathrow after a seven hour flight from New York. Captain Marcum and crew set the plane on localizer and outer and inner markers amid light crosswinds. Night stop at Kensington Palace Hotel precedes Hamburg and Copenhagen legs.
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London
Warcum
Marcum
Ground Control
New York
Pat King
Idlewild
Hunt
Hardison
Dusseldorf
Kensington Palace Hotel
Pan American
Hamburg
Copenhagen
Gander Control Divides North Atlantic Airspace
Air Traffic Control at Gander assigns blocks of airspace over the busy North Atlantic lane for the ocean crossing. The radio crackles with clearances as planes are sequenced across the ocean, directing routes and altitudes to manage heavy air traffic.
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Gander
Atlantic
Air Traffic Control
North Atlantic
Gander Control
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Clipper
Idlewild Airport
Scarscale
Grand Central Station
Ker
Hunt Chat
Ted
Kennedy
Ern
Ireland
Canada
Loran
Ranges
Skavanes
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
Beacon Hill
Watford Radio
Great
Britain
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