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Taking from the tradition of the globe and windswept typeface that Pan Am had used since the 1920s, they rendered the globe in gridlines, positioned a tightened logotype at the equator, and lightened the company color from navy to sky blue. #DefunctThursday#PanAmThis tweet was posted on August 18, 2022.
In 1958, Pan American World Airways introduced the first successful commercial jet service. This major milestone in air travel coincided with the launch of a modernized #PanAm brand by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes and his associate, Charles Forberg. #DefunctThursday#PanAmThis tweet was posted on August 18, 2022.
On Nov. 22, 1935, a #PanAm Martin M-130 named China Clipper, lifted off and strained into the sky, threading its way under and over two partially built bridges as thousands cheered from shore for the first scheduled flight across the Pacific Ocean. #DefunctThursday#AvGeekThis tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
Pan Am’s Pacific route was extended to Macao and Hong Kong in 1937, making the total flying distance from San Francisco 8,746 miles.
#DefunctThursday#PanAm#AvGeekThis tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
Tiny Wake Island was the vital link across the Pacific, as it broke the 2,690 miles from Midway to Guam into manageable segments. When first established in 1935, the route terminated in Manila, a whopping 8,210-mile one-way journey.
#DefunctThursday#PanAm#AvGeekThis tweet was posted on August 11, 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#AvGeekThis tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
In the early 1930s, Pan American Airways began planning for service across the oceans. San Francisco, which is 160 miles closer to Hawai’i than Los Angeles, was the chosen terminus for the Pacific route that required multiple island stops.
#DefunctThursday#PanAm#AvGeekThis tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.
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#PanAmThis tweet was posted on August 04, 2022.
The history of one of the United States’ most storied airlines, Pan American Airways, stretches back to 1927 and will be a multi-part #DefunctThursday. Founded in 1927 by Juan Trippe, #PanAm grew rapidly, purchasing or partnering with numerous competing airlines along the way. This tweet was posted on August 04, 2022.
#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.
Various attempts to cross the Pacific in the 1920s, such as the U.S. Navy’s PN-9 flying boats in 1925, and the Southern Cross in 1928, finally culminated in 1935, when #PanAm opened the first regularly scheduled air service with Sikorsky S-42 & Martin M-130 flying boats. #AirmailThis tweet was posted on June 14, 2022.