Charles A. Lindbergh docking his plane at Miami's Biscayne Bay
Image from page 8 of Pan Am Clipper [newspaper], Vol. 9, No. 12, Dec. 1983. Caption reads: "Miami Landfall. Back in the U.S. after five months in the air, Charles Lindbergh (front) directs the docking of his aircraft on Miami's Biscayne Bay. Note the building, under construction, in the background. It was Pan Am's Passenger Terminal, then the world's largest marine air passenger facility."
Passengers boarding the Dixie Clipper for her inaugural transatlantic flight in 1939 (top) and Pan Am's Yankee Clipper (bottom)
Images from page 8 of Pan Am Clipper [newspaper], Vol. 10, No. 5 May 1984. Caption 1 reads: "First Flight. Passengers board "The Dixie Clipper" for the world's transatlantic passenger service inaugurated on June 6, 1939. The flight hopscotched from Port Washington (Long Island) New York to The Azores and then on to Lisbon and Marseilles. Aboard was one Mr. Eck, who had made reservations for the odyssey 10 years before. When asked whether he was willing to sell his ticket for $5000 (actual worth $675) the pugnacious Eck's reply was an unmistakable "Nuts to you!""; Caption 2 reads: "Special delivery. New York City Postmaster Albert Goldman hands over the historic first sack of U.S. air mail for transatlantic delivery to Captain Arthur E. LaPorte, skipper of "The Yankee Clipper". Looking on (left to right) are Pan Am's Juan T. Trippe and the Civil Aeronautics Authority's Harilee Branch."
Map: "We've Got the World On a String Stretched in a Great Circle"
image from page 8 of Pan Am Clipper, Vol. 11, No. 6, Sep. 1985. Map depicts route established by Pan Am termed the "Great Circle Route"
Photograph of the christening ceremony of Pan Am's "American Clipper", a Sikorsky S-40 flying boat christened by Mrs. Herbert Hoover on Oct. 12, 1931
image from page 7 of Pan Am Clipper, Vol. 11, No. 7, Sep. 1985. Relevant text reads: "Mrs. Herbert Hoover is shown here christening the S-40 "American Clipper" on October 12, 1931 at the Naval Air Station, Washington, D.C."
Photograph of Pan Am's "Bermuda Clipper" a Sikorsky S-42 flying boat
image from page 7 of Pan Am Clipper, Vol. 11, No. 7, Sep. 1985. Caption reads: "The Bermuda Clipper, a Sikorsky S-42 flying boat, made the inaugural flight to Bermuda from New York on June 18, 1937."
Photograph of Pan Am's "Yankee Clipper", a Boeing B-314 flying boat
image from page 7 of Pan Am Clipper, Vol. 11, No. 7, Sep. 1985. Caption reads: "The Yankee Clipper, a Boeing B-314 flying boat which served Bermuda from 1939 to 1945."
Photograph of Captain Jack Bennett, pilot of the first commercial airlift into Berlin commencing the historical Berlin Airlift
image from page 10 of Pan Am Clipper, Vol. 12, No. 3, May 1986. Caption reads: "Pan Am Captain Jack Bennett flew the first commercial aircraft into Berlin at the beginning of the Berlin Airlift, and flew the last commercial plane to leave Berlin when the blockade was lifted. Bennett is now retired from Pan Am and still lives in Berlin."
The "Flagship Berlin", a DC-4 aircraft flown by American Overseas Airways during the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949
Image from page 10 of Pan Am Clipper, Vol. 12, No. 3, May 1986. Caption reads: "American Overseas Airways, which merged with Pan Am in 1950, flew the famous DC-4 "Flagship Berlin" during the historic Berlin Airlift, seen here in an old photo taken at Templehof. Today, Pan Am flies an Airbus A310 named "Clipper Berlin" in the Internal German Service which is now based at Berlin's Tegel Airport."
Passengers dining aboard the Sikorsky S-42 in the 1930's
Image from page 9 of Pan Am Clipper, Vol. 12, No. 4, July 1986. Caption reads: "Dining was course-by-course on the Sikorsky S-42 in the 1930s."
A menu dated 1934 from Pan Am's flying boats
Image from page 9 of Pan Am Clipper, Vol. 12, No. 4, July 1986. Caption reads: "First job of the day was to type the menus."