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Panagra DC-6
cutaway sketch from "The Clipper Fleet of PAA" brochure, page 7 depicting aircraft amenties, specifications and performance of DC-6 model airplane manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. flown by Panagra (Pan American Grace Airways, Inc.), a…
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."
Pan American World Airways' first stewardesses
Pan Am caption: "FIRST CLIPPER CUTIES: First Pan American Airways Stewardesses were hired in 1944 to relieve men for war duty. It was the days of flying boats, when stewards often had to row passengers ashore and handle the heavy mooring lines.…
Pan American World Airways' first China Clipper, Martin M-130 in service in 1935, and forty-five years later, its second China Clipper, Boeing 747SP
Written on front: "Majestically winging its way west, Pan American World Airways' first China Clipper, the Martin M-130 flying boat, launches pioneer transpacific service in 1935. Forty-five years later, history is repeating itself. Pan Am's second…
Pan American World Airways Founder, Juan Trippe with Pan American World Airways Technical Advisor, Charles Lindbergh in Panama
Written on front: "Pan Am founder Juan T. Trippe (right) chats with aviaiton pioneer Charles A. Lindbergh on the tarmac in Panama. Pan Am began service from Miami to the Canal Zone in February 1929. Lindbergh was a long-time technical adviser to Pan…
