Yep! PAA flew almost every american made aircraft, including Douglas, Connies, Boeings and Convairs. In 1958-1959, PAA's President, Juan Trippe, bought both BOEING 707s and DOUGLAS DC-8, and warned both airplane builders that if any of the two sold jets to American Overseas Airways (a competitor in the Hawaiian route) PAA would immediately stop buying planes from them. American Overseas, then equipped with obsolete Boeing Stratocruisers went banrupt, out of business, soon after.This was an unfair abusive practice that today would be banned and prosecuted.
Pan Am and American Overseas Airways merged on September 25, 1950 (well before Douglas and Boeing were designing their respective DC-8 and 707 and well before the Boeing Stratocruiser was obsolete).
Wait a minute. Is that Constellation very near the beginning of the video painted with a Pan American Airlines livery? I was unaware PAA ever flew Connies.
Pan American was the first commercial operator of the Lockheed Constellation when they flew one from New York to Bermuda on February 3, 1946 (beating TWA by three days).
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Yep! PAA flew almost every american made aircraft, including Douglas, Connies, Boeings and Convairs. In 1958-1959, PAA's President, Juan Trippe, bought both BOEING 707s and DOUGLAS DC-8, and warned both airplane builders that if any of the two sold jets to American Overseas Airways (a competitor in the Hawaiian route) PAA would immediately stop buying planes from them. American Overseas, then equipped with obsolete Boeing Stratocruisers went banrupt, out of business, soon after.This was an unfair abusive practice that today would be banned and prosecuted.
Pan Am and American Overseas Airways merged on September 25, 1950 (well before Douglas and Boeing were designing their respective DC-8 and 707 and well before the Boeing Stratocruiser was obsolete).
Wait a minute. Is that Constellation very near the beginning of the video painted with a Pan American Airlines livery? I was unaware PAA ever flew Connies.
Me too. And... I worked for PanAm.
Pan American was the first commercial operator of the Lockheed Constellation when they flew one from New York to Bermuda on February 3, 1946 (beating TWA by three days).
@WAL_DC-6B Thanks for the comment, WAL. I didn't know this. PA's beating out TWA flying a Connie must've frosted Howard Hughes' nuts.
@@dragonmeddler2152 Yeah, I wonder how old Howard took it at that time.
Nice one Chris!!
Love the shot of #3 fin against the sunset over the ocean, epic!
Yes, definitely!!
The airport at 2:15 is KMKC
Howard Hughes' baby!