According to PanAm.org, the flight was operated using a Boeing B-314 – named the Dixie Clipper – a massive flying boat specifically designed for long-haul flights over water. This aircraft, considered ...

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He flew to a WWII strategy meeting with Winston Churchill at Casablanca in North Africa, crossing the Atlantic on a Boeing 314 Flying Boat named the ‘Dixie Clipper’. Setting a precedent for future ...

He flew in a Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat called the Dixie Clipper. However concerns eventually led the Air Force to have the Douglas Aircraft Company build a plane specifically for the president.

Roosevelt in 1943 became the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane while in office. He flew in a Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat called the Dixie Clipper. However concerns eventually led the Air ...