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May 21, 2020
Airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airplane builder Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz struggle to find a place in post-World War I aviation. Their struggles illuminate the challenges aviation pioneers faced in these early, uncertain days. After repeated setbacks, the four men join forces to build an airline to South America.
May 28, 2020
As they push southward, Trippe, Sikorsky, Lindbergh and Leuteritz build larger flying boats, harness radio to navigate safely over great distances, and, with help from the U.S. government, outwit all competing airlines to dominate service to Latin America and launch the global air tourism industry - but all of this is merely preparation for their ultimate goal: flying the oceans.
Jun 11, 2020
Defying the skeptics, Pan Am builds an airway to Asia, allowing its airplanes to hopscotch across the world's widest ocean by landing at five steppingstone islands: Hawaii, Midway, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines. Air service from New York to London begins in 1939, completing a chain of airways encircling the globe.
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Across the Pacific Season 1 (2020) is released on May 21, 2020. Watch Across the Pacific online - the English History TV series from United States. Across the Pacific is directed by Stephen Lyons,Lisa Quijano Wolfinger and created by Stephen Lyons with Christopher Cassarino and Brad Koed. Across the Pacific is available online on Pluto TV and Amazon Video.
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As Igor Sikorsky
As Charles Lindbergh
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As Self - Former Pan Am Vice-President
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