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How many menus did Pan Am issue? A lot! Browse through over 500 of them in our online database: https://t.co/F4qGotpYp7
#AvGeek #PanAm #PanAmerican #Menu
This tweet was posted on October 03, 2022.
By 1930, the Pan American Airways System linked twenty-nine Latin American and Caribbean countries and territories with regularly scheduled airmail, passenger, and cargo flights.
#DefunctThursday #PanAmerican #PanAm #AvGeek #AviationHistory
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 #avgeek
This tweet was posted on June 27, 2022.
In the days before non-stop flights, a journey across the Pacific Ocean took many days and required multiple stops along the way, including those flown by #PanAmerican. #ChinaClipper #MuseumFromHome #avgeek
This tweet was posted on April 03, 2020.
Glenn L. Martin was born on #onthisday in 1886. The Martin company produced numerous types of aircraft, including the Martin M-130, which #PanAmerican used to inaugurate the first scheduled #transpacific airmail service in 1935. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 17, 2020.
As the #December chill has descended on the Bay Area, SFO Museum staff would love to visit a beach like this one featured on a #PanAmerican poster advertising the tropical island of #Bermuda. Do you have any getaway plans this month? #TravelTuesday
This tweet was posted on December 10, 2019.
Long before #PanAmerican used Midway Atoll as an island stop in the 1930s-50s on their transpacific route, Laysan #albatrosses had used the island for breeding. They even became the island's unofficial mascot. Midway is now part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
This tweet was posted on November 06, 2019.
Today is #WorldTourismDay! Where in the world would you like to go?#avgeek #panamerican #tourism
This tweet was posted on September 27, 2019.
#Onthisday in 1947, the #PanAmerican #Lockheed Constellation Model 749 Clipper America completed its first around the world flight, landing at @flySFO. Originating in NY’s La Guardia Airport on June 17, 1947, the 22,170- mile course, logged a total flying time of 102hrs & 50m.
This tweet was posted on June 29, 2019.
The #Sikorsky S-40 was developed in response to requests from #PanAmerican Airways’ president Juan T. Trippe for a high-capacity flying boat. Capable of carrying 38 passengers, the cabins were spacious and luxuriously appointed with mahogany paneling. #AviationEvolutions
This tweet was posted on January 28, 2019.
Our collection features 2 photos of Lady Drummond-Hay, an English journalist, in Wake Island circa 1936, on a #PanAmerican transpacific adventure. Her profession as a journalist and her love of aviation enabled her to document many great events in aviation history. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 23, 2019.
In late 1945, #PanAmerican realized the superiority of the DC-4 over the #Boeing 314 flying boat and began operating the airliner on transpacific routes and, by 1948, on transatlantic routes to Europe. #AviationEvolutions
This tweet was posted on December 26, 2018.