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 ...
When Juan Terry Trippe got Pan American Airways into the air in 1927 he knew every wrinkle in its flying equipment (a lone trimotored Fokker), every part in his stockroom, every wavelet in the go-mile ...
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As a boy, Juan Trippe had witnessed Wilbur Wright's 1909 flight around the Statue of Liberty; as a teenager, he learned to fly. In 1917, he left Yale to become a military pilot. He didn't see combat, ...
It was the annual meeting of Pan American Airways stockholders. Up rose Juan Terry Trippe. Pan Am had done well in the first five months of this year, said he cheerfully. It had grossed $27,500,000 ...
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 ...
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 ...