ERA | INTO THE JET AGE
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.
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.
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.
PANAMAC: Pan Am’s Game Changing Computer System, by Taegan Obermeyer-Loder. It revolutionized the way the airline handled data.
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).
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.
Stewardess Hope Ryden & Pan Am's first jet Inaugural flight, NY-Paris October 1958 on a Boeing 707 (Photo: 1983 anniversary reenactment). PDF
A Vietnam Vet's Reminiscences. Richard Upchurch was in Military Aviation for 21 years and retired in 1992: His Pan Am Vietnam memories. PDF.
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 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.
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.
The Beatles arrive at JFK on a Pan Am 707. Stewardess Jill Kellogg's account of their first trip to the US in February 1964 and newsreel footage Read the PDF
“I may lose battles, but no one will ever see me lose minutes.” Pan Am's Promotion of the Dassault Falcon business jet.
The Junius Kellogg story: " The Man Who Saved Basketball." Junius A. Kellogg and the Pan Am Jets wheelchair basketball team, by Bruce Wolk.
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 North Stars Steel Band: Tony Williams, master of steel pan music, top Steel Band in the Caribbean, combined forces with Pan Am.
In 1964 Pan American installed a brand new technology in its jet fleet -- the inertial navigation system, with benefitted from NASA's technology.
