ERA | EXPLORATIONS
Bill Taylor Interview (1993): His story as an engineer on the M-130 China Clipper while flying home across the Pacific, Dec. 1935 on her 1st transpacific flight.
A short history of Wake island before the Air Age was introduced by Pan Am & the consequences of US involvement in WW2, followed by modern-day peace.
First-Hand Accounts of John Cooke, Bob Ford and Robert Hicks: How weather and mechanical problems affected the Pacific operations of Pan Am.
The Life and Times of Dinner Key, by Doug Miller: A story that looks at the development of Pan Am's Miami flying boat base in the 1930s. (PDF).
Designing the interior and exterior of Pan Am's First Marine Base, at Miami'sDinner Key Terminal, was the work of architects, Delano and Aldrich.
The Pan Am Globe, the main attraction at Pan Am's Dinner Key Miami seaplane base: Today it's newly installed at the Miami Worldcenter.
Kingman Reef 1,100 miles from Hawaii, a stop on Ed Musick's survey flight to Auckland in 1937 where the Pan Am base was the SS Northwind.
Lighter than Air by Doug Miller: When Juan Trippe of Pan Am explored the possibilities of airships and the technology that might have been.
Panagra Capt. Stephen Dunn, forced in a storm to fly his Sikorsky S-43 "blind" across the Isthmus of Panama, never reached Cristobal.
Celebration of airship Hindenburg's big 1936 Atlantic travel season by German Zeppelin Co. & Standard Oil of NJ, included passenger Juan Trippe.
Mission to China, Parts 1-4 by Eric Hobson. 1932-1938, Juan Trippe enlisted the help of the talented Harold Bixby to map out PAA's Pacific routes.
North Haven Expedition 2: Pan American Airways mounted a second expedition to build a transpacific air bases, completing work on Midway & Wake.
Pan Am's First Marine Base at Dinner Key Miami was a two-story houseboat that served as terminal until a more permanent structure was designed.
H. Donald “Doc” Singer: Pan Am’s Salesman at Dinner Key & Humanitarian Extraordinaire, Parts 1&2 by Eric Hobson, iIlustrations by Vic Zimmer.
Loading the China Clipper, like Days of Sailing Ships: Pan Am's First Transpacific Thanksgiving, account by Pilot Ed Musick, November 25, 1935.
Pan Am in 1934 by month. Colorful history of Pan American Airways operations & stories of its people, aircraft and far-flung destinations.
Martin M-130s: John Borger, first hired as a Junior Engineer to work on the North Haven Expedition in 1935, had a long, stellar career with PAA.
The 1939 arrival of the B-314 California Clipper survey flight, on a new route to Auckland, the first flight to NZ since the loss of Samoan Clipper in 1938.
