Sikorsky S-42
jenis pesawat terbang
Sikorsky S-42 adalah pesawat terbang komersial tahun 1930-an yang dirancang dan dibangun oleh Sikorsky Aircraft untuk memenuhi persyaratan 1931 dari Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) sebagai pesawat terbang jarak jauh lintas Atlantik.
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"Flying Clipper" dan "Pan Am Clipper" adalah nama lain untuk S-42.
Referensi
sunting- Davies, R.E.G. Pan Am: An Airline and its Aircraft. New York: Orion Books, 1987. ISBN 0-517-56639-7.
- Yenne, Bill. Seaplanes & Flying Boats: A Timeless Collection from Aviation's Golden Age. New York: BCL Press, 2003. ISBN 1-932302-03-4.
Pranala luar
suntingWikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Sikorsky S-42.
- Sikorsky S-42 photos and history
- Sikorsky S-42
- "Atlantic Routine," Flight 1937, contemporary article on S42 and British Caledonian operating across Atlantic
- "The Long-Range Flying Boat, Its Development and Characteristics: A Precis of a Lecture Delivered by Igor Sikorsky," in Flight, 1934 article on the S-42 design
- "Thirty-Two Passenger Flying Boat Meets First Tests," Popular Science Monthly, June 1934, article bottom of p. 37
- "Giant Plane to Cut U.S. - Argentine Time" Popular Mechanics, October 1934, cutaway drawings of purposed S-42, pp. 488–489
- "Sikorsky Sees Dawn to Dusk Trans-Atlantic Flight by Airliners" Popular Mechanics, January 1935, pp. 44-46
- "Pan Americans Flying Boat the Sikorsky S-42", YouTube 3.33 minutes, excellent rare photos of S-42 in service