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How Pan Am crossed the Pacific first, flying boats, Wake and Midway outposts, and the risky tests that created the Clipper era
This episode follows Pan Am’s push beyond the edge of 1930s aviation, from Edwin Musick’s test flights to the brutal logistics of building island bases across the Pacific. It captures the romance of ...
Pan Am's 1937 promotional film Flying the Lindbergh Trail traces Charles Lindbergh's earliest flights across the Caribbean and South America, promoting the airline's new commercial flights on their ...
Flying boats opened up travel destinations around the world—then they went to war Dave Kindy A Sikorsky S-43 banks near Galveston, Texas, in 1993. Nicknamed the “baby clipper,” it was a smaller ...
Nostalgia for a South Florida-born aviation pioneer has reached the high seas. Cruise line Holland America and Pan American World Airways are teaming up to offer a 28-day cruise to the Caribbean and ...
Holland America Line is partnering with Pan Am for a 100th-anniversary cruise in 2027. The 28-day Caribbean voyage will visit historic Pan Am destinations on the Zuiderdam ship. Pan Am’s “flying boat” ...
Bedrock beliefs: Pan American airways advertising -- Clipper heroes and celebs -- Hollywood: Clippers go to the movies -- Clipper music -- Air-age education: youth and Clipper -- Clipper toys, games, ...
Passengers disembark from Pan Am’s clipper after its historic first transatlantic flight, from Port Washington near New York City to Lisbon on June 28-29, 1939. The luxurious Boeing 314 flying boat ...
Nostalgia for a South Florida-born aviation pioneer has reached the high seas. Cruise line Holland America and Pan American World Airways are teaming up to offer a 28-day cruise to the Caribbean and ...
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