Our exhibition detailing the entire adventurous endeavor, "China Clipper", is online at: https://t.co/MPq52u5pOS
You can also read the entire exhibition catalog and watch all three segments of “Clipper Glory” there!
#AvGeek #ChinaClipper #PanAm
This tweet was posted on November 22, 2022.
Out of the one hundred and one Sikorsky S-38s built, Pan Am acquire thirty-eight of the versatile aircraft, the last of which was retired in 1940.
#AvGeek #Sikorsky #PanAm
This tweet was posted on May 25, 2022.
Over 90,000 people signed up for #PanAm's "First Moon Flights" Club. Read more about it on our Tumblr blog! https://t.co/DTHv70i7CU
This tweet was posted on May 18, 2016.
Pan Am Express was a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways primarily focused on connecting passengers to Pan Am's hub at JFK, but also provided regional services in many other areas of the U.S., as well as the Bahamas and Europe. Did you ever fly on #PanAm Express? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on June 01, 2019.
Pan Am's early route map provided a bit of history (& a ton of color) for the long journey across the Pacific! http://t.co/w40R1Gikim #PanAm
This tweet was posted on February 25, 2014.
Pan American Airways inaugurated its first scheduled passenger flight on January 16, 1928, with an eight-passenger Fokker F.VIIa/3m. Flying from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, the 90-mile trip took just under 90 minutes. #PanAm #PAA #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 17, 2023.
Pan American Airways was awarded a lucrative airmail route contract from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba, in 1927. Unforeseen circumstances led them to hire outside pilot Cy Caldwell and his Fairchild FC-2 inaugurating Pan Am's first service #onthisday in 1927. #PanAm #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on October 19, 2022.
Pan American World Airways’ 1948 advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post promoted the luxury of Sleeperette service to Australia and New Zealand. Have you ever been to Australia or New Zealand? #TravelTuesday #PanAm
This tweet was posted on October 08, 2019.
Pan American pioneered commercial airline service to Latin America and the Caribbean in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In less than 3 years, Pan Am’s routes increased from an inaugural 261-mile Miami-Havana line to over 19,000 miles. #DefunctThursday #AvGeek #PanAm
This tweet was posted on August 04, 2022.
Prior to 1935, the 2,400 miles from San Francisco to Honolulu represented the world’s greatest water gap along any viable aerial trade route. The next stop, Midway Island, lay 1,300 miles northwest of Hawai’i.
#DefunctThursday #PanAm #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
Promoted as the "Super Seven," #PanAm introduced the airliner in May 1956, on the Atlantic route from Miami to Paris, and in September 1957, on the time-saving, transpolar "great circle route," across the Arctic Ocean to Northern Europe. #AviationEvolutions
This tweet was posted on February 12, 2018.
Promoted as the “Super Seven,” #PanAm introduced the DC-7C in May 1956, on the Atlantic route from Miami to Paris, and in September 1957, on the transpolar “great circle route,” across the Arctic Ocean to Northern Europe. #AviationEvolutions
This tweet was posted on September 13, 2018.
Read “Lessons from Pan Am Flight 845” to learn how those actions kept all passengers and crew alive and how they influenced subsequent emergency trainings. Check it out on our website: https://t.co/mD9uaqKWOe
#blogpost #Panam #avgeek #crewlife #hero
This tweet was posted on August 31, 2021.