ENDURING LEGACY
PAN AM'S CONTRIBUTIONS STILL RESONATE
A Legend: Edmund “Eddie” Allen, Test Pilot. His calm intelligence heard in a radio interview during his first Boeing 314 Clipper test.
Revisiting Pan Am's Cuban Roots, by Ed Trippe. The rich history behind the beginnings of Pan American Airways in Cuba.
Gerry Lister was the curator of the Clipper Museum in Long Island City, becoming Pan Am’s official historian, an inspirational role then, and now.
"There Will Never Be Another Pan Am" by Aviation Historian R.E.G. Davies. Today, Pan Am is still respected in the world of commercial aviation.
R.E.G. Davies' life's work as world's foremost airline historian and curator of Air Transport at the Smithsonian, by Dr. Robert Van der Linden.
Azores: Strategic Pan Am Stepping-Stones. From the days of his earliest plans for transatlantic air service, Juan Trippe counted on the Azores.
The story of the lost Samoan Clipper and plans leading up to the July 2019 expedition launched by the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation.
Nothing tells a story better than Ron Davies' Pan Am maps. Caribbean | Rio & Beyond | Jet Routes 1960 | Propliners 1957 | Domestic Routes 1980s.
It was a bright Good Friday in Puerto Rico, April 11, 1952 but Pan Am's DC-4 Clipper Endeavor would never complete another flight.
Mystery Still With Us, the disappearance of Martin M-130 Hawaii Clipper on July 29th, 1938, with an ongoing search by the The Lost Clipper.
Communing with Ghosts: Peter Leslie's 2015 visit & photos at Foynes Museum's B-314 Yankee Clipper Pan Am replica (Margaret Shaunessey at controls).