Boeing B-314 Flying Boats - Intentionally sunk off Baltimore

[Zagi-2]

"Of the 12 clippers built by Boeing out of aluminum alloy, 11 made it through World War II. One crashed off the coast of Lisbon in 1943; 2 were fatally damaged in storms after the war. The Allies offered to sell the surviving clippers back to Pan Am, but airports built during the war had turned the flying boat into an albatross. According to Stan Cohen, author of Wings to the Orient: Pan American Clipper Planes 1935 to 1945, the U.S. Navy sank the last of the B-314s off the coast of Baltimore in 1951."

http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/collec ... 5/102.html

[n5151ts]

lets go get it.....

[Joe Scheil]

Its toast. Bermuda Sky Queen sunk by gunfire and lots of it! Cheaper to just go and build one.

As an aside the next best thing is not a replica, but the last of the Sikorsky Flying Aces' Excambian in the Bradley Museum.

[SaxMan]

Off the coast of Baltimore? Last time I looked, Baltimore was situated along the Patapsco River. That would be like saying "off the coast of Washington D.C.".

Is it possible that they are confusing the B-314 with one of the Martin Mars that sank in the Chesapeake? I know the Navy blew that one to smithereens.

[gary1954]

Don't waste your time....Anything connected to the NAVY, it still belongs to them