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Clipper Newsletter blog Spring Summer 2024

"Clipper" | Members newsletters. Messages from Ed Trippe-Chair & Adam Aron-Pres. with PAHF project updates & more Pan Am news.

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A Brief History of Pan Am, by Pan Am historian and Pilot Gene Banning with photos of the accomplishments of Pan Am through six decades.

Read more: PAA: A Brief History

Juan Trippe Moments

Juan Trippe Moments: A video honoring Juan T. Trippe and his successes. A glimpse into his life & work dedicated to building Pan Am.

Read more: JTT: Moments

Juan Trippe and Charles Lindbergh at opening of Pan American Field Miami January 1929 (UM Spec Coll photo)

January 3, 1929  WABC radio address by Juan Trippe announcing the opening of Pan American Field in Miami. Photo: with Lindbergh at the event Jan. 9th.

Read more: JTT Speech, 1929

Juan Trippe portrait blogpic

Quotes by Juan Trippe, 20th-century visionary & founder of Pan American World Airways during his time at Pan Am in the 1930s - 1960s.

Read more: JTT: Visionary

Pan Am DC 7 blogpic

Air Travel for All. As early as 1943 before the end of the World War, and long before jets, Juan Trippe was thinking about future tourist class travel by air.

Read more: Air Travel For All

Pan Am's New Aircraft 1935 - Sikorsky S-42, Martin M-130, Douglas DC-2 and Lockheed Electra

Pan Am in 1935: Check back for month-by-month stories of PAA people, aircraft, operations, explorations & destinations (90 Years ago series).

Read more: Pan Am in 1935

S 42 Pan American Clipper 1935 blog

The 2nd Pan Am Pacific Survey flight, June 1935: Pilot Ed Musick & his crew celebrate their arrival at the remote Midway Atoll, 1,254 miles beyond Hawaii.

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Photo of Pan Am M-130 over San Francisco by Clyde Sunderland

Martin M-130s: John Borger, first hired as a Junior Engineer to work on the North Haven Expedition in 1935, had a long, stellar career with PAA.

Read more: Right Plane for the Job

Pan Ams Clipper Hula blogpic

Hawaiian ships are shaking and shoulders quivering to a brand new island dance-the “Clipper Hula”-dedicated to Pan American Airways).

Read more: The Clipper Hula

The first Transatlantic Passengers take the Dixie Clipper from Port Washington June 1939

After years of on-again-off-again geopolitical negotiations, passengers flew the Atlantic on Pan Am B-314 Dixie Clipper (Photos by Betty Trippe).

Read more: 1st Transatlantic Pax

Wake Island aerial, from the Bonnie Gilbert Collection

Echoes of Wake Island, by Bonnie Gilbert tells the story behind her 2012 book, "Building for War" and the civilian contractors and marines on Wake Is.

Read more: Echoes of Wake Is.

Bermuda Genteel Sort of War

As WW2 began in Europe, PAA Pilot Charles Lorber landed his B-314 in Bermuda and British censors & marines removed all mail bound for Germany.

Read more: A Genteel Sort of War

Marine Air Terminal, MAT, LaGuardia 1940s

Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia, still in operation, was New York's first true airport where Pan Am's Clipper ships flew.

Read more: The MAT @ LaGuardia

Mr. Pacific by Neal Davis blogpic

Mr. Pacific: My Years with William Mullahey, by Neal Davis, Sr., a story based on an interview in 2009 with Mr. Lee Umphred. Read the PDF

Read more: Mr. Pacific

Flight Service Training 1950

Maxim's-A Parisian Tradition. Dining on the Pan Am President Special, 1957, restaurant service extending 65,000 miles & embraced 82 lands.

Read more: A Parisian Tradition

  1. Dining in the Sky
  2. The Big Lift
  3. A Dangerous Game
  4. Apollo 7 & Pan Am
  5. JFK's Plane Too Soon
  6. A New Worldview
  7. Edmund "Eddie" Allen
  8. Mystery Still With Us
  9. Find Media
  10. Jet Age
  11. "Pacific Musick"
  12. Sky Road to Adventure
  13. PanAm90 | Kindle
  14. Clipper Hall Guide
  15. DC3s Normandy 2019
  16. Gala: Across the Pacific
  17. Good Works: WWI
  18. Clipper Pioneers
  19. Pan Am | Jun.1935

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