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Later additions to the group were Tamarack Farm (a work camp for 15- to 17-year-olds of all genders), Saltash Mountain (co-ed, focused on hiking trips), Flying Cloud (for 11- to 14-year-old boys, originally borrowing the traditions of the Lakota people but later creating their own system of wilderness living in the manner of cultures from ...
Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. The ship held this record for over 130 years, from 1854 to 1989. Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853 ...
Hornet had a two-day head start on Flying Cloud in their famous 1853 race. She left New York City for San Francisco , California on April 26, 1853, with Flying Cloud departing two days later. After the roughly 15,000- nautical mile (27,780-km) voyage around Cape Horn , both ships arrived in San Francisco harbor 106 days later at almost the same ...
Ship Designer. Known for. Flying Cloud. Spouse (s) Albenia Boole (married 1833–1848, until her death) and Mary Cressy Litchfield (m.1850) Donald McKay (September 4, 1810 – September 20, 1880) was a Nova Scotian-born American designer and builder of sailing ships, famed for his record-setting extreme clippers .
The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner (or Strato-Clipper in Pan American service, or C-75 in USAAF service) is an American stressed-skin four-engine low-wing tailwheel monoplane airliner derived from the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, which entered commercial service in July 1940. It was the first airliner in revenue service with a pressurized cabin ...
Airstream discontinued the manufacture of Class A motorhomes in 2006. Airstream, still based in Jackson Center, is a division of Thor Industries. Airstream produces several models: Basecamp, Bambi, Caravel, Flying Cloud, International, and Classic. Trailer sizes of 2020 range between 16 and 33 feet.
Robert Bowne Minturn Jr. (born New York, February 21, 1836); graduated from Columbia in 1856 and joined the family firm soon thereafter. He married Sarah Susannah Shaw (1839–1926), sister of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw; he was the author of New York to Delhi (New York, 1858). Minturn, Colorado, is named for him.
Andrew Jackson made seven passages from New York to San Francisco, with an average time of 106 1 ⁄ 3 days. These times compare well with the passages of extreme clippers such as Flying Cloud and Flying Fish, which averaged 105 5 ⁄ 7 days and 103 1 ⁄ 3 days respectively, [1] and the vessel was advertised as "The Fastest Ship in the World."