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"Pan American's First Passenger flight Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, January 16, 1928"On January 16, 1928, seven passengers board a Pan American Fokker F-7 (NC53), inaugurating scheduled United States-flag commercial service from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba, a distance of 90 miles. The tri-motor, high-wing monoplane, de luxe in its interior, was commanded by Captain Hugh I. Wells. A sister-ship flown by Captain Edwin C. Musick took off a few minutes earlier, carrying mail and cargo to Havana.This passenger flight, one of Pan American's many 'firsts' in the history of transport aviation, followed another when airmail flights to Havana were inaugurated on October 28, 1927.
Plate No. 01: Fokker-7: Historic First Flights of Pan-American Clippers
John T. McCoy
England: Pan American World Airways, Inc., 1963.
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"Pan American Clipper arrives Canal Zone with first airmail from Miami. Florida, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh commanding, February 6, 1929."Pan American's S-38 amphibian (NC8000), flown by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, arrives Cristobal, Canal Zone, with the first airmail from Miami concluding a 2,000 mile, two and a half journey through seven Latin American countries. The formidable course over water, jungle, and mountains established the western link of air routes that soon were to criss-cross the Caribbean. The newly-designed 100 mile an hour Sikorsky, often referred to as 'The Flying Duck', pioneered many routes for Pan American, playing a key role in the development of air travel to Latin America.
Plate No. 02: Sikorsky S-38: Historic First Flights of Pan-American Clippers
John T. McCoy
England: Pan American World Airways, Inc., 1963.
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"Brazilian Clipper arrives Rio de Janeiro to be christened, August 18, 1934"Pan American's Brazilian Clipper (NC822M), the first of the new Sikorsky S-42 flying boats, arrives Rio de Janeiro on August 18, 1934, under the command of Captain Edwin C. Musick and First Officer Wallace Culbertson. The new Clipper was Christened by Senhora Getulia Vargas, wife of the Brazillian President, before being placed in scheduled service. Carrying 3 passengers at a cruising speed of 140 miles an hour the S-42 broke all distance records of that period. First used on Latin American routes, the S-42s later successfully pioneered both transpacific and transatlantantic routs.
Plate No. 03: Sikorsky S-42: Historic First Flights of Pan-American Clippers
John T. McCoy
England: Pan American World Airways, Inc., 1963.
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"Philippine Clipper arrives Hong Kong, linking the United States and Asia by air. October 23, 1936" Martin flying board, Philippine Clipper (NC14715), Martin flying boat, Philippine Clipper (NC14715), commanded by Captain J.H. Tilton and carrying 15 passengers at a speed of 130 miles an hour, arrives Hong Kong on October 23, 1936. The completion of this island-hopping transpacific flight from San Francisco established the first commercial air link between North America and the continent of Asia. Philippine Clipper was one of three Martin M-130 Flying boats used by Pan American to pioneer the Pacific Ocean routes. A year before, on Novermber 22, 1935 the renowned China Clipper inaugurated transpacific service, flying U.S. airmail to Manila. The third sister-ship, on Hawaii Clipper, made the first scheduled flight carrying commercial passengers to the Philippine capital.
Plate No. 04: Martin M-130: Historic First Flights of Pan-American Clippers
John T. McCoy
England: Pan American World Airways, Inc., 1963.
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"Dixie Clipper Completes first transatlantic passenger flight New York to Lisbon, Portugal, June 29, 1939. "Pan American's Dixie Clipper (NC18605) lands at Lisbon, June 29, 1939, completing the first heavier-than-air transatlantic passenger crossing. The Boeing B-314, under command of Captain R. O. D. Sullivan with First Officers Gilbert B. Blackmore and Robert D. Fordyce and crew of nine, departed Port Washington, New York, the day before, flying via the Azores with 22 passengers. Pan American's Boeing B-314s served magnificently throughout World War II, carrying most of the crowned heads and leaders of the Allied Nations to important strategic mission on all continents.
Plate No. 05: Boeing B-314: Historic First Flights of Pan-American Clippers
John T. McCoy
England: Pan American World Airways, Inc., 1963.
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"Pan American inaugurates commercial landplane service into Belgian Congo, January 19, 1946"The arrival of Pan American's Douglas DC-4 (NC88884) in Leopoldville, on January 1946 marked the first scheduled United States-flay transatlantic passenger flight into the Belgian Congo with landplanes. Commanded by Captain Audrey Durst, the flight inaugurated bimonthly service between New York and Leopoldville via Newfoundland, Lisbon, and Dakar. The Douglas DC-4, which first saw service during World War II as a military transport marked the transition to landplanes by overseas airlines. The introduction of the commercial DC-4 was the beginning of the end for Pan American's world-famous, luxurious Boeing B-314 flying boats.
Plate No. 06: Douglas DC-4: Historic First Flights of Pan-American Clippers
John T. McCoy
England: Pan American World Airways, Inc., 1963.
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"Pan American completes the first commercial Round-the-World flight San Francisco, California, June 29, 1947"Pan American inaugurated the first Round-the-World service on June 17, 1947, when Clipper America (NC86520) with Captain Hugh H. Gordon commanding and a crew of nine, departed La Guardia Field, New York City, with 20 passengers. The Lockheed Constellation (L-749) completed the global flight in 92 hours, 43 minutes flying time over a period of 12 days, landing in 10 countries and 17 cities in its 20,000 mile trip. Thereafter weekly schedules, both eastbound and westbound were flown. Presently, daily Round-the-World flights in each direction are flown with Jet Clippers, reducing the flying time to 38 hours, 35 minutes in an elapsed time of two and one-half days.
Plate No. 07: Lockheed Constellation: Historic First Flights of Pan-American Clippers
John T. McCoy
England: Pan American World Airways, Inc., 1963.
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"Clipper America, first airliner to service Operation Deep Freeze, arrives Mcmurdo Sound, Antarctica, October 15, 1957"Pan American Boeing B-377 Stratocruister, Clipper American (NC1030V), carrying government officials and United States Navy construction teams assigned to Operation Deep Freeze, arrives McMurdo Sound on October 15, 1957. Captain Ralph Savory and a crew of nine departed Christchurch, New Zealand, on this pioneering commercial airline flight to Antarctica. The double-decked Boeing landed on a snow-covered runway built by a 'wintering-over' party laboring in temperatures as low as minus 68 degrees fahrenheit.The Stratocruiser, a mainstay of Pan American's fleet for 12 post-war years, was a favorite of both flight crews and passengers. These aircraft logged an impressive 7,500,000,000 passenger miles before retiring to make way for new Jet Clippers.
Plate No. 08: Boeing B-377: Historic First Flights of Pan-American Clippers
John T. McCoy
England: Pan American World Airways, Inc., 1963.
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"Pan American Jet Clipper departs New York for first scheduled jet passenger flight to Paris, October 26, 1958"American aviation entered the jet era on the evening of Octover 26, 1958, when Pan Am Jet Clipper America (N711PA) commanded by Captain Samuel H. Miller, took off from rain-soaked New York International Airport Bound for Paris with 111 passengers. This was the first scheduled commercial jet flight by a United States airline. The Boeing 707 jet, flying at 575 miles an hour reducing the crossing time -- once 23 hours -- to seven hours. With this flight Pan Ams Boeing 707s and Douglas DC-8s began leading the way in bringing the advantages of the jet age to more than 80 lands around the world. The Jet Clippers like no other aircraft shrank the globe, putting any point on the earth's surface within 24 hours of any other point, and boosting air traffic bolume to previously undreamt-of levels.
Plate No. 09: Boeing 707: Historic First Flights of Pan-American Clippers
John T. McCoy
England: Pan American World Airways, Inc., 1963.
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