Boeing’s 33-passenger Stratoliner, pressurized to travel above the airways at 20,000 feet, was in her death throes, ... Pan Am’s 74-passenger flying boats. ...

While cases of aircraft turned into homes or even boats do exist, the Cosmic Muffin is perhaps one of the most iconic because of the Stratoliner’s rarity, the Howard Hughes connection, and its ...

With power going out on one engine of The Boeing's Co.'s historic S-307 Stratoliner and a cockpit warning light showing low fuel pressure in another, Capt. Richard "Buzz" Nelson, a veteran Boeing ...

The four-engine Boeing plane called the Stratoliner has a bittersweet history in the Pacific Northwest, especially during the month of March. The Stratoliner prototype first flew from Boeing Field ...

In 1936 the "Big Five" U. S. airlines— Pan American, United, American, Eastern, Transcontinental & Western Air— hatched a plan for a Douglas four-engined super-airplane.

On that day, a four-engine Boeing Stratoliner 307 that Knowlen and dozens of volunteers had spent six years restoring crashed into Seattle’s Elliott Bay within full view of startled diners at a ...