Across the Pacific
This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airline builder Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz join forces to build an airline to South America and Trippe has dreams of conquering the world with international flights.
- 2020-2020
- 1 season
- PBS Digital Studios
- Documentary
This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airline builder Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz join forces to build an airline to South America and Trippe has dreams of conquering the world with international flights.
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2020
Episode 1
Airborne
Thu, May 21, 2020 57 mins
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.
Episode 2
Latin Laboratory
Thu, May 28, 2020 56 mins
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.
Episode 3
Another Ocean
Thu, Jun 11, 2020 56 mins
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.