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Looking Back: July 1922

A World War I flying ace envisioned a monstrous airliner that would fly in "but a very few years."

By Bob Sillery Posted 06.14.2002 at 1:41 pm 0 Comments

JULY 1922

World War I flying ace and frequent Popular Science contributor Eddie Rickenbacker
envisioned a monstrous airliner that would fly in "but a very few years." With a boat-like fuselage that let it alight on land and water, Rickenbacker's concept looks slightly like the Boeing Model 314 Clipper, the flying boat that made the first scheduled trans-Atlantic flight in 1939. The Clipper's 74 seats converted into 40 bunks—but there was no observation deck. The 300-foot wingspan of the giant would have dwarfed the Clipper's 152 feet.

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