Photograph passengers departing the Dixie Clipper flyingboat in Manhasset Bay, Long Island, NY in 1939

Photograph passengers departing the Dixie Clipper flyingboat in Manhasset Bay, Long Island, NY in 1939

image from page 1 of Pan American Clipper, Vol. 29, No. 14, July 7, 1969. Caption reads: "This was the scene 30 years ago, on June 28, 1939, when the Dixie Clipper took on 22 passengers at a yacht pier on Manhasset Bay, Long Island, N.Y., to inaugurate transatlantic service. Cheered by 5,000 spectators and a brass band, the Boeing 314 Flying Boat sped across the ocean at 150-mph for 29 hours and 20 minutes to Marseilles via the Azores and Lisbon. Total trip time: 42 hours and 10 minutes. A Boeing 707 can fly halfway around the world in the time it took the Dixie Clipper to get to Marseilles. By the end of 1939, Pan Am crossed the Atlantic 100 times. Nowadays, Pan Am makes 376 transatlantic flights a week and, since 1939 has flown the Atlantic more than 187,000 times as of June 28, 1969."

Pan American World Airways, Inc.

1969-07-07

Still Image

asm03410053400001001

1960-1969

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