Dear Hollyood, please make a movie of the California Clipper
< Reads about the truly ridiculous circumstances for like ten minutes, to the extreme detriment of actual work >
D'ac, but that almost sounds like less "movie" than "$%^*& miniseries". Wow.
I regret only that it couldn't be filmed with a real plane, because the last Boeing 314 Clipper was scrapped in 1951.
On the other hand, if you built a new one, I bet you could totally sell it afterwards to some dieselpunk enthusiast who'd been trying to decide whether he wanted a yacht or a private plane. ETA: The cost of actually building one would probably be prohibitive: I forgot the "roughly the size of a 727" thing. Uhhh...it worked for Waterworld? ohwait.
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< Reads about the truly ridiculous circumstances for like ten minutes, to the extreme detriment of actual work >
D'ac, but that almost sounds like less "movie" than "$%^*& miniseries". Wow.
I regret only that it couldn't be filmed with a real plane, because the last Boeing 314 Clipper was scrapped in 1951.
On the other hand, if you built a new one, I bet you could totally sell it afterwards to some dieselpunk enthusiast who'd been trying to decide whether he wanted a yacht or a private plane.
ETA: The cost of actually building one would probably be prohibitive: I forgot the "roughly the size of a 727" thing.
Uhhh...it worked for Waterworld? ohwait.