Juan Trippe bet Pan Am's future on a plane meant only as a stopgap, convinced supersonic travel was just around the corner.

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In Manhattan last week Juan Terry Trippe, president of Pan American Airways, made a significant speech; in London Viscount Edward George William Tyrwhitt Knollys (rhymes with moles), Governor of ...

Everyone who sees the Oscar runaway nominee "The Aviator" will come away with a dark impression of the man Howard Hughes sees as his enemy -- a plump Alec Baldwin playing Juan Trippe as the suavely ...

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Even more importantly, he championed tourist class, a way to give working men and women fast, comfortable travel. Trippe was also an early backer of jet airliners, helping Boeing and McDonnell Douglas ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From his office in New York City, Pan ...

The facts were not in dispute: The oldest standing building at Miami International Airport, a 1929 hangar built by visionary Pan American Airways founder Juan Trippe, played a singular role in ...