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...however, the domestic field had become too crowded to suit Trippe, so he abandoned air transportation within the U.S. and formed Pan American. The new company concentrated on international routes; its earliest Key West to Havana run carried just eight passengers in trimotor Fokkers. The airline quickly expanded its routes throughout Latin America and the Pacific. Charles A. Lindbergh, fresh from his solo flight across the Atlantic, soon became a key Pan Am adviser. "Lindbergh," Trippe always maintained, "was our greatest pilot and navigator...
...next 40 years, Trippe and Pan Am played a central role in nearly every major development in commercial aviation. He pioneered the use of the great amphibian "clippers" used on transatlantic and transpacific flights prior to World War II. In 1955 Pan Am was the first U.S. company to order the commercial jets that would cut flying time in half and make air travel the most popular form of mass transportation. Eleven years later, Trippe bought the first wide-bodied jets, now the workhorses of long-distance aviation...
Last year, when Pan Am bought National Airlines for $393.6 million, the company for the first time added a full range of domestic routes to its international network. Even so, at Trippe's death, Pan Am no longer resembled the airline of its glory days. Since his retirement in 1968, the company has faced serious problems because of declining passenger revenues, rapidly rising costs (particularly for fuel) and tough competition from subsidized foreign carriers. Yet for nearly half a century and in everything from Sikorsky amphibians to Boeing jumbo jets, Juan Trippe made the going great...
DIED. Juan Trippe, 81, aviation pioneer and founder of Pan American World Airways, which he guided for 41 years until his retirement in 1968; after a stroke; in New York City, (see ECONOMY AND BUSINESS...
...court, Knight likewise favors nose-to-nose confrontation. During the 1979 Pan American Games in Puerto Rico, Knight got into a fight with a policeman, then compounded his legal woes and embarrassed the U.S. team by saying: "The only thing they know how to do is grow bananas." Subsequently he attempted to justify an attack on a sportswriter by explaining: "I thought you were Spanish." In his quest to replace Woody Hayes as the raging bull of college athletics, Knight has repeatedly humiliated his team in public and once grabbed an erring player and threw him onto the bench during...