ERA | PAN AM POST WAR
Maxim's-A Parisian Tradition. Dining on the Pan Am President Special, 1957, restaurant service extending 65,000 miles & embraced 82 lands.
All Saved! A Rescue at Sea. In the early morning hours of Oct. 17th, 1956, halfway from Honolulu to San Francisco, Cap. Richard Ogg was losing altitude.
Life in a Clipper. The old Pan Am S-42 Brazilian Clipper was about to take off on a new life in 1947, thirteen eventful years after her first flight.
Another Pan Am First: B-377 Stratocruiser Clipper Rainbow (N1025V) sets a record, San Francisco to Washington, DC, March 1949.
Chili Saves the Day: How Pan Am Captain Chili Vaughn did his job and more, piloting a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser overnight to Rome in 1953.
1946: UNRRA needed to continue its airlift service to China & Pan Am got the contract.flying the Great Circle Route saved hours of flight time.
Dining in the Sky, Like Nothing on Earth: America’s fascination with gourmet food on planes began with Pan Am’s ‘Round the World' Flight in 1947.
To Europe & Back Non-Stop with Propliners: The Crowning Achievement. Ing mid-1950's booming post-war economy air travel was growing fast.
Pioneering Flight Simulators: Flight training had entered a new era when Pan Am was preparing to launch their new Boeing B-377 Stratocruiser.
Ground Controlled Approach in Gander, Part 1 - A Very Serious Game of Hide and Seek, by Robert Pelley, a long-time military and aviation enthusiast .
Ground Controlled Approach in Gander Part 2. Blue Jay, Operations, Equipment, People, by Robert Pelley with thanks to Gander Historical Society.
Ernest Hemingway's personal testimonial about traveling on Pan Am to rediscover Europe, in a colorful 1956 magazine advertisment.
The Internal German Service was operated by Pan Am after World War Two, when Germany was prohibited from operating its own air services.
July 25, 1958: Captain Robert Dean Postlewaite and the story of Pan Am Fight 150. The trouble began around 8 pm on a Pan Am DC-7C to Europe.
Mr. Pacific: My Years with William Mullahey, by Neal Davis, Sr., a story based on an interview in 2009 with Mr. Lee Umphred. Read the PDF
Pan Am Ops in Gander/1 by Robert Pelley: Pelley takes a close look, shedding light on the history of Gander Airport and its operations 1940s-1950s.
Pan Am Ops in Gander/2 by Robert Pelley: Taking a close look & shedding light on the history of Gander Airport and its operations in the 1940s & 1950s.
Pan Am Way Down South, Boeing 377 Stratocruiser lands in Antarctica in 1957 (Image: John T. McCoy painting, SFO Museum, gift of PAHF). Read the PDF
