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April 25, 2015
Glamorous Crossing: How Pan Am Airways Dominated International Travel in the 1930s
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 25, 2015 11:19 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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I was born in the wrong century.
Posted by: ghostsniper ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://americandigest.org/sidelines/nav-commenters.gif)
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