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- Collection: Cleared to Land: The Records of the Pan American World Airways, Inc.
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Photograph of Pan Am's GMRD personnel issuing equipment to an RCA employee
image from page 9 of GMRD Clipper issue from August 1958. Caption reads: "In warehouse stockroom (Bldg. 989), Jim Branch, left, issues equipment to RCA's Bob Ritchie while Supv. George Courtney watches."
Pan American's weather station at the island of San Salvador Island in The Bahamas
Image from page 13 of GMRD Clipper issue from May 1958. Caption reads: "San Sal is number five in the chain of 12 [downrange stations of the East Test Range]. Below is Pan American's weather station at the base."
The GMRD reporting structure
Image from page 8 of GMRD Clipper issue from March 1958 accompanying article entitled "ABC's of Our Defense". Major Kenneth Grine explains common abbreviations and organizational structure - GMRD which stands for Guided Missile Range Division reports…
A test missile launch from Cape Canaveral in 1950
Image from page 15 of GMRD Clipper issue from October 1957. Caption reads: "Cape Canaveral, initiated as missile launching site in July, 1950 with firing of WAC Corporal Bumper, is first of GMRD-operated range bases."
Photograph of an Ocean Range Vessel operated by Pan American World Airways Guided Missile Range Division
image from page 2 of GMRD Clipper, Vol. 4, May 1957 accompanying article entitled "A Report on the Ocean Range Vessels: The latest ideas in missile tracking make these floating range stations vital to American Defense". Caption reads: "Berthed at an…
Aerial photograph of Jupiter Auxiliary Air Force Base, part of the Eastern Test Range operated by Pan American Guided Missile Range Division
image from page 2 of GMRD Clipper, Vol. 4, April 1957 accompanying article entitled "Jupiter: From Lighthouse to Missiles - Guardian of Floridian Shores"
Dagoe Island Missile Test Range used by the U.S.S.R.
Image and caption from page 10 of GMRD Clipper, Vol. 3, Nov. 1956. Caption reads: "One such site located on Dagoe Island, off the Estonia coast in the Baltic Sea, contains three steel launching scaffolds, underground storage space and control…
Aerial view of Cape Canaveral in 1955, location of Pan Am's Guided Missile Range Division
Image from page 3 of GMRD Clipper, Vol. 2, No. 6, Aug. 1955 accompanying article entitled "Cape Canaveral - Heart of the Missile Test Range". Caption reads: "Missile's-eye-view of Cape Canaveral."
Photograph of the first Boeing 747 stewardess for Pan American Airways, Susan Lea Limbaugh
Image from page 13 of Wing Tips, Vol. 3, Issue 12, Jan. 1970 accompanying article entitled "First 747 Stewardess"
Photograph a new piece of equipment designed specifically to load & maneuver the Boeing 747 aircraft
image from page 12 of Wing Tips, Vol. 3, Issue 12, Jan. 1970. Caption reads: "One of tractors for new Jet Age: Pan Am will use three tractors to maneurver the 747 at different airports. The largest weighs 155,000 pounds...the tractors are only part…