Sikorsky S-42

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.

"Flying Clipper" dan "Pan Am Clipper" adalah nama lain untuk S-42.

Referensi

• 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

• 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