ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We'd like to express our appreciation for the ongoing support of Pan Am Historical Foundation's Chairman Ed Trippe and President Adam Aron.

Acknowledging the efforts of our history chroniclers at the Pan Am Historical Foundation, we want to thank Eric Hobson, John Johnson, Thor Johnson, John Luetich and Shea Oakley, whose insight and expertise have contributed to both Clipper Hall & panam.org, for many years. Also a special thank you to Capt. Stew Archer, President of Clipper Pioneers and to Ron Marasco who provided an invaluable personal account.

Thanks to University of Miami Special Collections, Pan American World Airways, Inc. records for hosting the Pan Am corporate archive, and to all our PAHF friends and members who have shared their collections.

Special Thanks

To those who provided access to unique resources and assisted with difficult research questions.

Allen Fisher / LBJ Presidential Library.

Heather Anderson / The Boeing Company Archive.

Heather Schaub / The Boeing Company Archive.

Karin Carlson-Schneider / Northeast Historic Films.

Mark Taylor & Kate Igoe / National Air and Space Museum Film Archive.

Mike Lombardi, Historian / The Boeing Company Archive.

Nicole Davis / The Museum of Flight.

Scott Mueller & Colleagues / Color Lab.

Tricia Gesner / AP.

Archives and Collections

AeroArt International.

Archive.org. 

Associated Press Archive.

Aviation Week Archive.

Richard Boucher / PAHF Collection. 

R.E.G. Davies / PAHF Collection. 

Duke University, J. Walter Thomson Collection, John Hartman Center. 

National Archives Motion Picture and Sound Division. 

Pan Am Historical Foundation, film, image and documents collections. 

Pelican Films. 

Popular Science Archive.

San Francisco Public Library. 

Seattle Times.

Erik Sorensen / PAHF Collection. 

The Boeing Company Archive. 

The Museum of Flight Archive. 

The New York Times. 

The Wings Club. 

University of Miami Special Collections, Pan American World Airways, Inc. records. 

University of Washington, William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Joe Sutter Fund.

U.S. Air Force, Office of History, Air Mobility Command.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Photographs and Graphic Works.

Wikimedia Commons.

Written Sources

Bender, Marylin and Selig Altschul "The Chosen Instrument: Pan Am, Juan Trippe, The Rise and Fall of an American Entrepreneur," Simon and Schuster, 1982.

Blake, Robert, Resident Representative, Boeing. "The Durable Giant," Pan Am Historical Foundation Clipper Newsletter, 2000.

Borger, John, Chief Engineer Pan Am. "Evolution of an Airplane," Pan Am Historical Foundation Clipper Newsletter, 2000.

Daley, Robert. "An American Saga: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am Empire," Random House, 1980.

Davies, R.E.G, author and Mike Machat, illustrator. "Pan Am: An Airline and Its Aircraft," Orion Books, 1987.

Decher, Reiner. "Powering the World's Aircraft: Engine Developments from the Propeller to the Jet Age," Air World, 2020.

Halaby, Najeeb E. "Crosswinds: An Airman's Memoir," Doubleday & Company, 1978.

Kuter, Laurence. "The Great Gamble: The Boeing 747," University of Alabama Press, 1973.

Marasco, Ron. "The 747: A Tumultuous Beginning," Ronald Marasco, 2015.

Sutter, Joe with Jay Spenser. 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation," Smithsonian, 2016.

Other Resources

James Vaughn/Xray-Delta 0ne on Flickr.

San Diego Air and Space Museum on Flickr.

Steven R. Shook Collection on Flickr.

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