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If the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day air travel from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an instant celebrity. This lively background by Robert Gandt traces the introduction of the great flying boats as both a triumph of technology and a stirring individual dilemma. He examines the politics, military, and economic makes that drove its development and talks about the aeronautical advances that made the plane possible.
