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’s Clipper service in the Pacific ended a few weeks later on April 9, 1946, when a B-314, the American Clipper, landed at San Francisco. Only one B-314 had been lost during World War II ...

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.

They board as first- or business-class fliers in a Pan Am Boeing 747. Only this isn't a real plane. ... the Clipper Juan Trippe, so named for Pan Am's visionary founder.

Was Pan Am Clipper Taken by Japan at Truk Lagoon ... Once such mystery is the disappearance of the Hawaii Clipper, a passenger plane that vanished in 1938 during a transpacific voyage from ...

Time Life Pictures/Getty Images There was an era when travelling by plane meant dressing in your finest, ... and take a flight back to the heyday of Pan Am. Here: a Pan Am clipper in 1941.

On April 22, 1974, Pan Am Flight 812 took off from Hong Kong headed for Los Angeles – but the plane never made it to its destination as it crashed into a mountain, killing all onboard.. Moments ...

This is a Space Plane model built by Aurora Plastics in the 1960s. The model is plastic and has the emblem of the former Pan American Airways on it. No such Space Plane was ever built in real life, ...