Flying Cloud Passes By. Passing the dirigible mooring mast 1, 250 feet above street

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Flying Cloud Passes By. Passing the dirigible mooring mast 1, 250 feet above street

Flying Cloud Passes By.
Passing the dirigible mooring mast 1, 250 feet above street level on top of New York Citys famed Empire State Building is the worlds largest and fastest commercial airliner. The plane, the Pan American World Airways America class Clipper Flying Cloud, reaches London next Sunday, April 3, after her maiden crossing of the Atlantic. It was necessary for the 75-passenger double-decked Clipper to fly at more than 1, 500 feet to clear the top of the Empire State Building. The aircraft itself is 110 feet 4 inches long, and it its 71-ton bulk could be stood on its tail in the street the nose would reach above the 10th floor of the 102-storey skycraper. The Clipper is the civial version of the US Air Force B-50 bomber. It has a cruising speed of 340 miles an hour at 25, 000 feet. New York, USA. 01 April 1949

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