Across the Pacific

Airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airplane builder Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz join forces to build an airline to Latin America as Pan Am takes flight.

Pan Am builds larger flying boats and harnesses radio for navigation as it dominates service to Latin America. Plans to cross the Atlantic are dashed when Britain bars the planes from landing. So he sets his sights on the Pacific instead.

Défiant les sceptiques, Pan Am construit une voie aérienne vers l'Asie, permettant au China Clipper de traverser à la marelle l'océan le plus large du monde en atterrissant sur cinq îles principales : Hawaï, Midway, Wake Island, Guam et les Philippines.