The Pan Am Clipper

Author : James Trautman
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 9780228102304
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pan American Clippers written by James Trautman and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Illustrated with rare period photographs, vintage travel posters, magazine ads and colorful company brochures, Pan American Clippers covers every aspect of the era of flying boats, from 1931-1946. Trautman explains PanAm's founding and growth, their wartime activities, and the design choices that made the company a symbol of luxury. "--

Author : Larry Weirather
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The China Clipper, Pan American Airways and Popular Culture written by Larry Weirather and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book discusses strategies used to represent the clipper as a paragon of U.S. interests, values and beliefs. The main focus of the work is the variety of ways this iconographic status manifested itself through toys, movies, pulp fiction, comic books and music. An appendix explains different models of the clipper flying boats"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stan Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings to the Orient written by Stan Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald W. Jackson
Publisher : W. Clement Stone
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Clipper written by Ronald W. Jackson and published by W. Clement Stone. This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Gandt
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612514243
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Clipper written by Robert Gandt and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an instant celebrity. This lively history by Robert Gandt traces the development of the great flying boats as both a triumph of technology and a stirring human drama. He examines the political, military, and economic forces that drove its development and explains the aeronautical advances that made the aircraft possible. To fully document the story he includes interviews with flying boat pioneers and a dynamic collection of photographs, charts, and cutaway illustrations.

Author : MR Ed Dover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615214726
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Way Home - Revised Edition written by MR Ed Dover and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...the story of the Pacific Clipper, a B-314 caught between Noumea, New Caledonia and Auckland, New Zealand at the outbreak of World War II and ordered to return home by flying west around the world in radio silence to avoid capture or destruction by enemy forces."--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Roy Allen
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1782747834
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pan Am Clipper written by Roy Allen and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pan Am Clippers were probably the most romantic planes ever built. The experience of flying in them was intended to rival the great ocean liners. Illustrated with more than 100 archive photographs, this impressive book is a tribute to a technical wonder that continues to fascinate and captivate many people today.

Author : Albert S. J. Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970965806
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Clipper written by Albert S. J. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Gandt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781888962116
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skygods written by Robert Gandt and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1966, Pan American Airways reached the zenith of its wealth & influence. Its pilots were lords of the sky; Skygods. Under aviation pioneer Juan Trippe's autocratic control, Pan Am bought jet airliners before its competitors & made record profits. It was the first U.S. airline to order the supersonic transport; it accepted reservations for the first service to the Moon. Then Pan American Airways fell to earth. In Skygods, Robert Gandt, a Pan Am pilot for 26 years, gives an inside account of the great airline's unprecedented demise. He interviewed hundreds of former Pan Am airmen & executives. He reveals how Pan Am's captains, in Navy-style uniforms, once commanded their ships like petty tyrants. They were the best & brightest in airline industry, but there were disturbing stories of captains who allowed stewardesses to land their aircraft, flew them at the wrong altitude & in the wrong direction & who tragically disappeared, often without a trace. All was not well either in the Pan Am Building, the massive landmark in New York where a succession of impulsive & short-sighted CEOs combined to preside over the demise of a great airline. Pan An bought a domestic airline it did not need; bought aircraft it did not need & operated half-empty planes on low-density routes. It sold the entire Pacific network for a bargain price & sold precious assets to meet its payrolls. And then came the Lockerbie tragedy. This is a fascinating account of what can go wrong with a pillar of strength of the U.S. industry, when its leaders lose their sense of direction & when their star employees-the Skygods-discover that they are mere mortals.

Author : Lynn M. Homan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738505527
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pan Am written by Lynn M. Homan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pan American World Airways could be considered a corporate Cinderella--a rags-to-riches-and-back-again phenomenon. From its founding in 1927 and its relatively obscure inauguration as a mail carrier on a 90-mile mail run from Florida's Key West to Cuba, Pan Am's route system grew to span the globe. The company that would eventually become famous for its blue-and-white-world logo grew into a conglomerate of hotels, airlines, business jets, real estate, a helicopter service, and even a guided missiles range division. But financial problems plagued Pan Am in its last two decades, and in 1991, Pan American World Airways ceased flying after 64 years of service. The story of Pan Am is as much the story of president Juan T. Trippe as it is an account of airplanes, pilots, flight attendants, and glamorous destinations. As the company moved throughout the world building airfields from jungles, crossing oceans, and forcing the development of new airplanes, it was Trippe's airline and his vision. A global pioneer, Pan Am was the first airline to use radio communications, to employ cabin attendants and serve meals aloft, and to complete an around-the-world flight. The company's achievements were legendary, but its failures, tragedies, and disasters were also part of a complex corporate life.