Comments: Glamorous Crossing: How Pan Am Airways Dominated International Travel in the 1930s

I was born in the wrong century.

Posted by ghostsniper at April 26, 2015 7:05 AM

Flying 50-60 years ago was a hoot. A lot of freedom of action. Just keep the customers and stakeholders happy and you could pretty much do it your way.

Posted by BillH at April 26, 2015 1:56 PM

When I was very young I actually watched the Pan Am Clippers fly to and from SFO. Pan American had a base right next to where United has its big maintenance base now. There was a huge concrete ramp where the Clippers rolled off the asphalt into the water of SF Bay.

Posted by Terry at April 26, 2015 3:39 PM

Back then with "primitive" navigation and flight control, they never lost any planes.
Well Amelia Earhart, and maybe Judge Crater.

Posted by chasmatic at April 28, 2015 9:27 AM

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