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Pan Am: An Aviation Legend

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Pan Am, An Aviation Legend is a must for anyone who considers herself or himself a romantic and a traveler by air, in the 20th century.

The book is loaded with vintage photos of early aircraft landing in the tropics, of founder Juan Trippe and longtime Pan Am advisor, Charles Lindberg, as well as art deco brochures and jet age memorabilia. The juxtaposition of fabulous pictures, creative and original advertising art and lucid prose makes this book stand out in its genre of coffee table books.

The author captures with great style the legend of Pan Am from the heroic pilots and their engineering feats (e.g. the first crossing of the Pacific Ocean) to the best flight attendants in the world. Anyone who traveled internationally after World War II will remember how wonderful it was to be served by the elite of the airline industry.

If you miss the romance of traveling to far away places, this is the book for you. Pan Am, An Aviation Legend faithfully salutes our memory of Pan American World Airways as the airline that with panache transported us abroad.

Whether you are American or European or Asian or South American or African my guess is that your experience with this book about Panamerican World Airways ("The World's Most Experienced Airline") will be one of nostalgia. Pan Am brought us together. It truly contributed to making the world a smaller place.

We the extended Pan Am family, employees and passengers will revere this book as a fitting tribute to Pan Am's pioneering spirit.

Pan Am, An Aviation Legend will be on most prominent display in the home of all of us.

I've always been drawn to the flying boats, both the Martin M-130 and the Boeing 314. When I saw this book caome out, I knew I had to read it. I actually bought it as a gift, but ended up reading it myself first. It is wonderfully put together. It covers Pan Am from begining to its sad end. Many of the pictures, I had never seen before, and gave me an insight to a airline that started it all. A book worth having for anyone who is into flying boats or Pan Am.

Growing up in the Pan Am family, I have nothing but fond memories of this great era. This book has helped me relive those memories. 30 years later, this airline would be the reason I would become a professional pilot myself. Those were the days when flying was more of a luxury then a convience. Men dressed in suits and women in their best. It was an age of glamour that again can be enjoyed through this book. Thank you

Glad that Pan Am is coming back as a deserving legend in aviation as well as a legend in world history. As a daughter of a 38 year veteran Pan Am pilot, I melted when I saw this book on the shelf of a book store the other day. I immediately bought it just for the face value but then when I took it home and read though the book, I found a beautifully and respectfully assembled book of Pan Am history. This book gives Pan Am the due admiration of the "World's Most Experienced Airline"...Forever....

This book is really about what America once was and could be again, perhaps. The author tipped his hand a few years ago when he wrote a genuine masterpiece of a coffee table book, THE MARTINI. Like that book, a delight to read (and as beautiful designed by Tom Morgan as PAN AM is), this book is about an aspect of American elegance that seems to have been replaced by a crude kind of arrogant upscale consumerism. But on a simpler level this book is just about the sheer joy of luxury travel in a time when the world was much bigger than today, and a white shirt, a bow tie, and leather shoes not considered the mark of the White Male Oppressor. Today we live in the age of tourism; this book celebrates the Age of Travel, which ended in the years after World War Two. Since when did a dozen airplanes -- production of the last clipper model B314 built by Boeing was a mere twelve -- inspire nostalgia like these? Like Elvis, Pan Am was purely American, and one of a kind.

A wonderful compilation of Pan Am history. A godsend for Pan Am fans like me.

Most interesting book about a period never to forget:the flying clippers of Pan merican Airways.This wonderfulbook desribes every clipper in detail apart from very extended information about the routes flown by these flying boats.A book interseting for every lover of aviation history !

I purchased this book for my Dad who spent 31 years working for Pan Am. It is well written with lots of photos. It contains a lot of interesting history on the airline. I personally would have preferred more photos and stories about its latter existence since this is what I can relate to. Pan Am was a big part of my growing up since Dad always seemed to be doing something for or with Pan Am. It appears to be a balanced account from beginning to end. A very high quality book suited to complement any coffee table.