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John McCoy Paintings
No. 3
Atlantic Stopovers
Long a province of Portugal, the Azores sit in the middle of the Atlantic. When Pan Am Clippers began crossing the pond in 1939, they landed in the harbor at Horta, on Faial.
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No. 35
Subsonic v. Supersonic
From the Winter-Spring 2000 Clipper Newsletter: Pan Am's Robert Blake and John Borger on the 747's development, plus Capt. Paul Roitsch, the first commercial pilot to fly the Concorde.
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No. 29
R.E.G. Davies' Maps
Ron Davies' route maps trace Pan Am from its first 90-mile route between Key West and Havana in 1927 to the globe-circling giant it became.
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