History will mark the twentieth century as the age that brought forth the revolution of air travel, and few played a more integral role in realizing its possibilities than Sanford B. Kauffman. For more than forty years, he served at the elbow of Juan Terry Trippe, Pan American World Airways' founder. Pan Am became Kauffman's life. An eyewitness to the growth of history's most famous airline, he saw it all. From his beginning as an assistant to André Priester, the crusty Dutch technical genius behind Pan Am's early rise, to his eventual vice-presidency for engineering, Kauffman's career spanned the great bulk of commercial aviation history. Though neither a pilot nor an engineer, he was precisely the sort of manager Juan Trippe was looking for: young, educated, urbane, knowledgeable in foreign languages and the wider world. Kauffman was, in short, an old-fashioned generalist among technical specialists. His invaluable broader view made Kauffman key to Pan Am's glamorous ascent from the romantic era of gracious flying boats with their elite passengers to the advent of no-nonsense jumbo jets and mass-market travel. This is the story of one exceptional man, his fascinating life, and the romance of a by-gone era that lives through his words.
Book Description
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Authors
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
skepticalinwalnutcreek,
By A Customer
This review is from: Pan Am Pioneer: A Manager's Memoir (Hardcover)
On page 212 the book asserts "Only five B-307s were built" and "... after the war, when the improved B-307B model, christened the Stratoliner and reequipped with tricycle landing gear, became available ..." Both statements are inaccurate.Ten Boeing 307s were built, one crashed and Howard Hughes took one from TWA's allocation of six. Pan Am took delivery of three designated S-307, TWA bought five designated SA-307B. Howard Hughes' was built with larger engines and designated SB-307B. After the war, TWA's were rebuilt and designated SA-307B-1. None ever had a tricycle landing gear. Also, did the author not know that Pan Am owned three of these interesting landplanes, capable of crossing the Atlantic in 1942 with a useful payload? For accurate information about this era I recommend the books of R. E. G Davies.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
Much went into the building of the airline industry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic airline pilots, third crewman, airmail contracts, transatlantic service, airline managers, domestic airlines, flying boats, jet age Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pan Am, New York, United States, Air Corps, United Fruit, San Francisco, Latin America, Mexico City, State Department, Central America, Juan Trippe, San Salvador, South America, Donald Douglas, Air Transport Command, Hong Kong, Joe Crosson, Clarence Young, Howard Hughes, Its Aftermath, Jet Travel Becomes, Kingman's Reef, The First Routes, Canal Zone, Duncan Cox New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Much went into the building of the airline industry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic airline pilots, third crewman, airmail contracts, transatlantic service, airline managers, domestic airlines, flying boats, jet age Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pan Am, New York, United States, Air Corps, United Fruit, San Francisco, Latin America, Mexico City, State Department, Central America, Juan Trippe, San Salvador, South America, Donald Douglas, Air Transport Command, Hong Kong, Joe Crosson, Clarence Young, Howard Hughes, Its Aftermath, Jet Travel Becomes, Kingman's Reef, The First Routes, Canal Zone, Duncan Cox New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 21
books:
See all 21 books this book cites
1
book
cites this book:
- New Columbia Encylopaedia by William H. Harris on 4 pages
- Blind Trust by John J. Nance in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- History of Aviation by John William Ransom Taylor in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- This was Air Travel by Henry Robinson Palmer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Spirit of St. Louis (Scribner Classic) by Charles A. Lindbergh in Back Matter
See all 21 books this book cites
- Reconsidering a Century of Flight by Roger D. Launius in Back Matter
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
