The Delta Flight Museum notes that Pan American World Airways, what would become known as Pan Am, was at the forefront of international aviation in the 1920s, and by the 1950s, offered" around the ...

Pan Am's Pacific Clipper, a Boeing 314, in an undated archive photograph. It was flown around the globe to avoid World War II after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. (H.

Fifty years ago, a few days before Thanksgiving, Pan American Airlines radio operator John Cook sat before a humming wireless in Alameda and alerted operators across the Pacific that Pan Am was ...

A Pan American Airways Martin M-130 flying boat, the China Clipper, leaves San Francisco Bay for Manila carrying the first United States trans-Pacific air mail on Nov. 22, 1935.

Pan Am: The Glory Days. Jan. 20, 2012. SHARE. ... Come fly with us, as Frank Sinatra might have said, and take a flight back to the heyday of Pan Am. Here: a Pan Am clipper in 1941.