Caught in Auckland by outbreak of war, Pacific Clipper flew through Australia, Java, India, Bahrain, Sudan, Belgian Congo & Brazil- along the way becoming first commercial aircraft to circumnavigate the globe. More:https://medium.com/s/story/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that-accidentally-circumnavigated-the-world-c04ca734c6bb …
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This doesn't make sense to me. What's the "long way" if not going over the Pacific?
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If you want to read more about this extraordinary storyhttps://medium.com/s/story/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that-accidentally-circumnavigated-the-world-c04ca734c6bb …
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Say what? What’s the long way AROUND that doesn’t involve the north or South Pacific? My hunch is that they flew over the Bering I guess bc I don’t see them flying over the southern ocean and taking that route in a month. Please tell!
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They had just landed in Auckland, NZ when they got word about pearl Harbor.
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To clarify (from the article linked in another tweet below), the plane had already flown from SF to New Zealand when Pearl Harbor happened. So instead of flying *back* over the Pacific, they had to take the long way around - westbound - from New Zealand back to the US.
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Imagine the frequent flyer miles those passengers ran up! Here’s a YouTube video about this flight:https://youtu.be/B0GbkM6n90o
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Uh...based on great circle routes, wouldn’t flying over the Pacific be the long way around?
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It's the Pacific Clipper. It flew from San Francisco to Aukland, and was going to head back to SFO, but then they couldn't go back across the Pacific, so they had to continue around the world.
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