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Subsonic v. Supersonic
Retrospective
Clipper Newsletter Winter-Spring 2000
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Pan Am flew the first subsonic widebody passenger jet from New York's JFK to London's LHR in January 1970. Thirty years later, Pan Am's Robert Blake, Pan Am representative at Boeing, and John Borger, Pan Am's Chief Engineer offered their perspectives on the 747 Superjet's development in the Pan Am Historical Foundation newsletter.
Robert Blake: pp. 1 & 4-7.
John Borger: pp. 1 & 8-11.
Also in this issue of the "Clipper" is a story by Capt. Paul Roitsch, the first commercial pilot to fly the Concorde SST, and his assessment of the aircraft which, in the 1960s, was considered to be aviation's Supersonic future
Paul Roitsch: pp. 2- 3.
MORE ABOUT PAN AM'S 747 & THE SST AT CLIPPER HALL EXHIBITS
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JTT: Video Tribute
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No. 21
MAT's New Clipper
Ed Trippe on the Pan Am Historical Foundation's installation at LaGuardia's Marine Air Terminal: a new Boeing B-314 model and three bronze historical plaques, installed in October 2021.
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No. 12
Gift to the World
The story of modern surfing has a lot to do with one man, native Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, and maybe a little to do with Pan Am, the first airline to fly to Hawaii.
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