ERA | PAN AM POST WAR
Slides: Pan American World Airways, Post World War II, 1945-1958, and the ascent of large transoceanic piston-powered commercial air transports.
Maxim's-A Parisian Tradition. Dining on the Pan Am President Special, 1957, restaurant service extending 65,000 miles & embraced 82 lands.
The story of the very first Boeing B-314: Pan Am's Honolulu Clipper, severely damaged from engine trouble in the Pacific, was sunk by the Navy in 1945.
Ernest Hemingway's personal testimonial about traveling on Pan Am to rediscover Europe, in a colorful 1956 magazine advertisment.
Dining in the Sky, Like Nothing on Earth: America’s fascination with gourmet food on planes began with Pan Am’s ‘Round the World' Flight in 1947.
Norman Rockwell's world tour sponsored by Pan Am in 1956, resulted in successful ads with sketches now housed at the Rockwell Museum.
Another Pan Am First: B-377 Stratocruiser Clipper Rainbow (N1025V) sets a record, San Francisco to Washington, DC, March 1949.
Riding the Jetstream: A different kind of wind was waiting in the stratosphere, while aviation kept pushing the envelope towards higher flight levels.
The Berlin Airlift 1948-1949: Cold War began in 1948 and Berlin was a city under siege. Pan Am played a supporting role in the enormous airlift.
Pan Am and the Race to Space. Pan Am was deeply involved in America’s move towards space by the 1950’s & was a prime contractor to the U.S. Air Force.
All Saved! A Rescue at Sea. In the early morning hours of Oct. 17th, 1956, halfway from Honolulu to San Francisco, Cap. Richard Ogg was losing altitude.
Pan Am's Clipper Glamour: Stewardess Alice Lemieux embodies Pan Am's allure during the famous 1947 'Round the World Constellation flight. Read the PDF
Pioneering Flight Simulators: Flight training had entered a new era when Pan Am was preparing to launch their new Boeing B-377 Stratocruiser.
Chili Saves the Day: How Pan Am Captain Chili Vaughn did his job and more, piloting a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser overnight to Rome in 1953.
Pan Am's U.N. Clippers, in those early days of the U.N., Pan Am played a key role with its capable new aircraft, the Lockheed Constellation L-049.
Pan Am Ops in Gander/1 by Robert Pelley: Pelley takes a close look, shedding light on the history of Gander Airport and its operations 1940s-1950s.
Life in a Clipper. The old Pan Am S-42 Brazilian Clipper was about to take off on a new life in 1947, thirteen eventful years after her first flight.
Ground Controlled Approach in Gander, Part 1 - A Very Serious Game of Hide and Seek, by Robert Pelley, a long-time military and aviation enthusiast .
