This PLANE FLEW Around the World ! 30 000 Miles Flight

When John Poindexter, an employee of Pan Am, spoke the words to his wife on the phone, he did not yet know that he would have dinner at home in a month. I also didn't know I had to fly around the world to get it. As a crew member of a Boeing aircraft, he would complete the first flight around the world aboard a commercial aircraft.

Basically, this Boeing 314 was a flying boat that used the water surface as a landing strip. This was convenient, given that the air travel at that time was only taking its first steps, and the airports were not as numerous as today.