ERA | INTO THE JET AGE
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).
A Vietnam Vet's Reminiscences. Richard Upchurch was in Military Aviation for 21 years and retired in 1992: His Pan Am Vietnam memories. PDF.
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."
The Pan American World Airways Building, NYC: Images from a variety of perspectives showing its dramatic edifice on Park Avenue.
Stewardess Hope Ryden & Pan Am's first jet Inaugural flight, NY-Paris October 1958 on a Boeing 707 (Photo: 1983 anniversary reenactment). PDF
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.
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.
“I may lose battles, but no one will ever see me lose minutes.” Pan Am's Promotion of the Dassault Falcon business jet.
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.
Thanksgiving 1965: After 30 years, Pan Am's famous Pacific propeller flights ended with the flight of Pan Am DC-7C "Ocean Rover" from Pago Pago.
The Worldport and the Jet Age: From Inception to demolition, Pan Am's iconic jetport that opened May 1960 at New York's JFK.
Pan Am's B-707 “Clipper Star of Hope” later flew for Korean Airlines as KAL 902. In 1978 it was brought down over the USSR & Pan Am rescued survivors.
Worldport Models. Pan American Airlines, Long Island City. 1957 Mar. 6. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress.
An Interview by Michael Manning with Al Topping & the Pan Am story, "Wings of Freedom." Link to a chapter from the book & purchase options.
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.
Movies Aloft: History of Pan Am's inflight movie entertainment over the years, and the popular introduction of Pan Am's Theatre in the Air, 1965.
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.
