ERA | INTO THE JET AGE
UFO Mystery on a 707 Proving Flight by Jack Meade, with a surprise explanation after a flight by Pilot Dick Vinal from Puerto Rico to JFK.
Air Rights: The Pan Am Building, NYC: Now over 60 years old, it has gained fans and maintains a strong presence over Grand Central in Manhattan.
Pan Am colleagues knew Cap. Bill Seeman as a "can’t-wait-to-see-what’s-coming-next" cartoonist: The story and images of his unique talents.
6-1/2 Magic Hours. Film produced by Pan American World Airways, Inc. on jet age flights. American History TV, C-Span, transcript.
Saving Pan Am's Incomparable Ads: Peter Leslie's trip to Portugal in 2018, to support tile billboard preservation efforts around Portugal.
Pan Am's Lockeheed L-1011 TriStar by R.E.G. Davies, illustrated by Mike Machat (John T. McCoy painting Courtesy of SFO Museum collection, gift of PAHF).
"I don't remember being as excited as this about a flight." Stewardess Jane Luna Euler recalls her Pan Am flight that returned the Beatles home .
The Pan American World Airways Building, NYC: Images from a variety of perspectives showing its dramatic edifice on Park Avenue.
Pan Am service to Vietnam began May 1953. By 1970, 5 scheduled flights a week flew to Vietnam from the US (also serving stops across the Pacific).
Basic Choices by Jack Meade on his engineering work at Pan Am: "My experience with the world's best airline was a hallmark in my aviation career."
Mary Lou Bigelow's first-person account: When she was a Pan American World Airways stewardess she documented Pan Am's history in films.
Pan Am's Worldport Design, in 1960, a slideshow of architectural drawings and images of the Jet Age from the Pan Am Historical Foundation archives.
Stewardess Hope Ryden & Pan Am's first jet Inaugural flight, NY-Paris October 1958 on a Boeing 707 (Photo: 1983 anniversary reenactment). PDF
A Day of "Firsts": First hijacking of a wide-body jet to Cuba, August 2, 1970 (Image by John T. McCoy, Courtesy SFO Museum, Gift of PAHF).
From Routine to Daunting: A Glance into Pan Am’s Charter Business by Eric Hobson. From its earliest days, Pan Am made its aircraft available for charter.
In 1964 Pan American installed a brand new technology in its jet fleet -- the inertial navigation system, with benefitted from NASA's technology.
Worldport Models. Pan American Airlines, Long Island City. 1957 Mar. 6. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress.
Flying to Berlin during the Cold War: The dust had hardly settled after the Third Reich had been crushed by Allied armies when the Cold War began.
