How Edwin Musick's meticulous 1935 survey flights across 8,200 miles of open ocean made transpacific commercial aviation possible - and what it actually took to pull it off.
TaildraggerOn November 22, 1935, Pan American's China Clipper made the first scheduled commercial transpacific flight under Captain Edwin Musick, covering nearly 8,000 miles to Manila in seven days.
TaildraggerOn November 22, 1935, Edwin Musick flew the Martin M-130 China Clipper from California to Manila, completing the first scheduled transpacific air crossing in history.
TaildraggerOn November 22, 1935, Pan American's China Clipper completed the first transpacific airmail flight under Captain Edwin Musick, opening scheduled commercial service across the Pacific.
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