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Edwin Musick

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Search complete. 11 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Edwin Musick".

Oct 21, 2026

Unknown podcast

The Pan American China Clipper, Juan Trippe's Pacific Gamble, and the November Morning That Shrank the Pacific Ocean

Oct 21 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
8:21
But the Martin M130 was first, and first matters.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:24
Edwin Musick did not live to see the full blossoming of what he helped create.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:29
In January 1938, the Samoan Clipper, one of the three M130s, caught fire and exploded near Pago Pago while jettisoning fuel for an emergency return.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:38
Music and his crew of six were killed.
The Pan Am Podcast

The Pan Am Podcast

Episode 69: 90 Miles and Minutes to Spare

Oct 20 · 5 Mentions

Ken AndersenHOST
20:42
Soon to be christened in Havana with the name of Cuban President Gerardo Machado, it took off on Pan Am's first genuinely scheduled flight.
Ken AndersenHOST
20:51
Bob, it's interesting to note the two pilots of this flight, the pilot in command was Hugh Wells and his co-pilot, I don't think the term first officer had yet been coined by Pan American, was Ed Musick.
Ken AndersenHOST
21:01
From what I've read, they were two very different pilots.
Ken AndersenHOST
21:04
What can you tell
Bob GandtGUEST
21:05
us about them? Well, the fact is, Musick was hired before Wells, but the airline didn't yet have a seniority system.
Bob GandtGUEST
21:12
Wells was a very experienced pilot who had been hired by one trip back for Colonial.
Bob GandtGUEST
21:17
But Wells was totally different in character from Music.
Ken AndersenHOST
22:23
He became one of the most famous aviators of that era.

Unknown podcast

Edwin Musick, the Martin M-130 China Clipper, and the Pan American Survey Flights That Opened the Pacific

Oct 18 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
10:26
They flew the next day and the day after that.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:28
But those who knew him said the Pacific was never quite the same after Musick left it.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:32
He had been the standard against which every clipper captain measured himself.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:36
When you're flying an ocean route with no alternates and no radar and a radio that may or may not reach the next island, you want the finest instrument pilot of his generation in the left seat.

Unknown podcast

The China Clipper, Edwin Musick, and the Pan Am Flying Boats That Opened the Pacific to Commercial Aviation

Sep 29 · 4 Mentions

Tail DraggerHOST
10:27
The China Clipper was on the water there when the bombs fell, and she was destroyed on the ground along with everything else Pan Am had built on that atoll.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:34
And Edwin Musick was already gone by then.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:36
In January of 1938, Musick was flying the Sikorsky S-42, which Pan Am called the Samoan Clipper, on a survey flight for a proposed new route to New Zealand and Australia.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:46
Departing Pago Pago in American Samoa, the crew declared an emergency, a fuel leak.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:51
They were dumping fuel to reduce weight for an emergency landing back at the harbor.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:55
The fuel vapor ignited.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:57
The Samoan Clipper exploded over the water off Pago Pago.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:00
Edwin Musick and his crew of six were killed.

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