Author: HILL, CHARLES N.
Title: Fix on the Rising Sun the Clipper Hi-Jacking of 1938--and the Ultimate M.I. A. ' S
Description: New York, NY: 1St Book Library, 2000. 2nd Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 1588203638. This is an oversized paperback book. The Book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but a previous owner has used a yellow highlighter pen on several lines of text on about 15 pages of text. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. "One particular incident from Pan American's history almost eighty years ago has considerable resonance with the disappearance of Flight 370. On July 29th, 1938, on a regular flight between Guam and Manila, the Hawaii Clipper, a Pan American Airways Martin M-130 flying boat, piloted by Captain Leo Terletzky, simply vanished. One minute - it was 12: 11 pm - the clipper was in radio contact with Pan Am's base at Panay in the Philippines, about 500 miles to the west. The plane's Flight Radio Officer, William McCarty tapped out a message: "Standby one minute, having trouble with rain static". One minute later, when queried by the airline's radio operator on the ground, there was no answer from the clipper. There never would be. The plane had vanished." (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .
Keywords: 1588203638 Aeronautics / Astronautics Charles N. Hill World War II Hijacking Kidnapping Air Piracy Pan Am Airways Aviation Disappearances
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Title: Fix on the Rising Sun the Clipper Hi-Jacking of 1938--and the Ultimate M.I. A. ' S
Description: New York, NY: 1St Book Library, 2000. 2nd Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 1588203638. This is an oversized paperback book. The Book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but a previous owner has used a yellow highlighter pen on several lines of text on about 15 pages of text. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. "One particular incident from Pan American's history almost eighty years ago has considerable resonance with the disappearance of Flight 370. On July 29th, 1938, on a regular flight between Guam and Manila, the Hawaii Clipper, a Pan American Airways Martin M-130 flying boat, piloted by Captain Leo Terletzky, simply vanished. One minute - it was 12: 11 pm - the clipper was in radio contact with Pan Am's base at Panay in the Philippines, about 500 miles to the west. The plane's Flight Radio Officer, William McCarty tapped out a message: "Standby one minute, having trouble with rain static". One minute later, when queried by the airline's radio operator on the ground, there was no answer from the clipper. There never would be. The plane had vanished." (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .
Keywords: 1588203638 Aeronautics / Astronautics Charles N. Hill World War II Hijacking Kidnapping Air Piracy Pan Am Airways Aviation Disappearances
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 45118
- Book number: 45118
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