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The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a large long-range airliner developed from the C-97 Stratofreighter military transport, itself a derivative of the B-29 Superfortress. The Stratocruiser's first flight was on July 8, 1947.[3] Its design was advanced for its day; its relatively innovative features (though neither completely new) included two passenger decks and a pressurized cabin. It could carry up to 100 passengers on the main deck plus 14 in the lower deck lounge; typical seating was for 63 or 84 passengers or 28 berthed and five seated passengers.
The Stratocruiser was larger than the Douglas DC-6 and Lockheed Constellation and cost more to buy and operate. Its reliability was poor, chiefly due to problems with the four 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radial engines and structural and control problems with their propellers. Only 55 Model 377s were built for airlines, along with the single prototype. A 377 was also converted into the Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy by John M. Conroy for NASA’s Gemini space program.
^"Boeing: Historical Snapshot: Model 377 Stratocruiser Commercial Transport". www.boeing.com.
The Boeing377Stratocruiser was a large long-range airliner developed from the C-97 Stratofreighter military transport, itself a derivative of the B-29...
directly from the fuselage of a C-97J Turbo Stratocruiser, the military version of the 1950s Boeing377Stratocruiser passenger plane. The fuselage was lengthened...
Corporation Boeing377Stratocruiser crashed on landing at Prestwick Airport, Scotland; 28 of the 36 on board were killed. The Stratocruiser was on a flight...
piston-engined Boeing377Stratocruisers in favor of the newer jet-engined airliners. Aircraft broker Leo Mansdorf was stockpiling surplus Stratocruisers at Van...
Pan American World Airways Flight 202 was a Boeing377Stratocruiser aircraft that crashed in the Amazon Basin about 281 nautical miles (320 mi; 520 km)...
people lost their jobs at Boeing.[citation needed] The company aimed to recover quickly by selling its Stratocruiser (the Model 377), a luxurious four-engine...
Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy – Outsize cargo conversion of the Boeing377Stratocruiser Aero Spacelines Super Guppy – Turboprop conversion and enlarged...
25 lb/hp (6.23 kg/kW) cruise Boeing377Stratocruiser Renard R.35 (first airliner with a pressurized cabin) Related development Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Aircraft...
failure; 52 of 69 on board die. April 28 – Pan Am Flight 202, a Boeing377Stratocruiser, broke up in mid-air and crashed after a possible engine separation...
World Airways (Pan Am) was operating weekly nonstop Boeing377Stratocruiser service from Boeing Field nonstop to Honolulu with this flight continuing...
trip. On the evening of October 15 the flight left Honolulu on a Boeing377Stratocruiser Clipper named Sovereign Of The Skies (Pan Am fleet number 943,...
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In the 1960s, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) opted to utilize its Boeing377Stratocruiser cargo transports, which were capable of long-range flights, to...
Constellations were supplemented and then largely replaced by Boeing377Stratocruisers, the first AOA service by the type being on 17 August that year...
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such as the B-50 Superfortress, the KC-97 Stratofreighter, the Boeing377Stratocruiser, the Lockheed Constellation, and the C-124 Globemaster II. In the...
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transported upon long range pressurized propliners such as the Boeing377Stratocruiser, Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation and Lockheed L-1649 Starliner...
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2 was a Boeing377Stratocruiser aircraft that was ditched into Puget Sound, just off Maury Island at the Point Robinson...
) The Stratocruisers' double-deck fuselage with sleeping berths and a lower-deck lounge helped it compete with its rival. "Super Stratocruisers" with...
Anak – conversions done to several ex-Pan American World Airways Boeing377Stratocruiser airliners into heavy lift military cargo aircraft after the United...
began operating the Accra–London route on 16 July 1958 with a Boeing377Stratocruiser, with the aircraft being operated with the Ghanaian flag and in...
Guppy". Both Mini Guppies were built using parts salvaged from a surplus Boeing377, but with an all-new fuselage. This enabled Aero Spacelines to widen the...
the local radio station KIBS. By 1956, Pan Am was operating a Boeing377Stratocruiser service into the airport from Los Angeles and San Francisco, via...
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