"2001: A Space Odyssey" was released in 1968 & featured this futuristic #PanAm stewardess uniform. #WomenInAviationThis tweet was posted on May 18, 2016.
"Clipper Captains ...Master Craftsmen of Air Travel." #PanAm brochure, c. 1950 This tweet was posted on August 24, 2016.
"This Valentine’s Card from circa 1940 features an illustration of a Pan American Airways Boeing 314 with a caption on the back of the card that reads, “This is just to make it “plane” that all I’m thinking of is just how awful hard I wish that I could “land” your love!”
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"[Your Clipper Captain] belongs to a group of seasoned and highly trained flying Captains." #PanAm brochure, c. 1950 This tweet was posted on August 24, 2016.
#HappyBirthday to Juan Trippe, the first President of Pan American World Airways, who was born #onthisday in 1899. Under Trippe, #PanAm became an innovative business model that became the blueprint for the global air transport system. #JuanTrippe#PanAmerican #avgeekThis tweet was posted on June 27, 2022.
#OnThisDay in 1923, Igor Sikorsky founded the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation (later renamed the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company, followed by the reorganized Sikorsky Aviation Corporation).
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#OnThisDay in 1927, the first scheduled Pan American Airways mail service departed from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba. #PanAm#avgeekThis tweet was posted on October 28, 2017.
#OnThisDay in 1931, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles A. Lindbergh, took off on a survey flight from Long Island to China, to scout out a commercial route for #PanAm. Anne was a licensed pilot, and together they embarked on several well publicized survey flights. #MuseumFromHomeThis tweet was posted on July 27, 2020.
#OnThisDay in 1934, the Martin M-130 took its first test flight in Baltimore, Maryland. The largest commercial airplane when delivered in 1935, only three Martin M-130 flying boats were built. #PanAm#avgeekThis tweet was posted on December 30, 2022.
#OnThisDay in 1939, Pan American Airways’ first scheduled flight from Treasure Island departed. Constructed for the 1939–40 Golden Gate International Exposition, #PanAm relocated its seaplane base to Treasure Island in 1938. #SFHistory#avgeekThis tweet was posted on February 05, 2019.
#OnThisDay in 1939, Pan American Airways’ first scheduled flight from Treasure Island departed.
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#OnThisDay in 1960, Pan American World Airways received their first Douglas DC-8, the "Clipper Mandarin", registry number N803PA. Did you ever fly on one of #PanAm's DC-8s? This tweet was posted on February 07, 2018.