Aircraft and engine manufacturers today put a lot of effort into designing jets that balance efficiency, comfort, and performance. From advanced aerodynamics to refined interiors, every detail is intended to make the... Read more »

Five prototype Mosquitos were built at Salisbury Hall several miles south of de Havilland’s main factory at Hatfield early in WW2. There is no proper airstrip at Salisbury Hall so some of... Read more »

British South American Airways , a state-run airline operating in the mid-20th century, became synonymous with aviation mysteries due to the unexplained disappearances of two of its aircraft: the Avro Lancastrian “Star... Read more »

Pan Am Captain Edwin Musick Edwin Musick won international fame as the captain of the China Clipper on its first scheduled crossing of the Pacific in November, 1935. The first pilot hired... Read more »

Juan Trippe The Pacific was not Pan American’s original goal.  Juan Trippe and his investors originally set their sights on the North Atlantic, because the passage between America and Europe was the... Read more »

Jean Boulet’s first helicopter flight was almost his last. It was September 21, 1947, and the 26-year-old Boulet was at the Camden, New Jersey, headquarters of Helicopter Air Transport, the world’s first... Read more »

Yankee Clipper arriving at Southampton, England after survey flight across the Atlantic in April, 1939. Eyes on the Atlantic Pan American had its eyes on the Atlantic market almost from the beginning... Read more »

The name “China Clipper” became synonymous with Pan American’s Martin M-130 clipper, and even, to many people, shorthand for Pan Am flying boats in general.  But the China Clipper was an individual... Read more »