Pan Am Wallpapers

<b>Pan Am - Pan American World Airways; photo wallpapers; megawallpapers.org :</b> Pan American World Airways, commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal international airline of the United States from the 1930s until its collapse in 1991. Originally founded as a seaplane service out of Key West, Florida, [br]the airline became a major company credited with many innovations that [br]shaped the international airline industry, including the widespread use [br]of jet aircraft, jumbo jets, and computerized reservation systems. Identified by its blue globe logo and the use of the word "Clipper" in aircraft names and call signs, the airline was a cultural icon of the 20th century, and the unofficial flag carrier of the United States. Pan Am went through two reincarnations after 1991. The second Pan Am [br]operated from 1996 to 1998 with a focus on low-cost, long-distance [br]flights between the U.S. and the Caribbean. The third incarnation based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ceased operations in 2004. (Boston-Maine Airways, [br]a sister company of the third incarnation, still operates the Pan Am [br]Clipper Connection brand.) Except for the second incarnation, whose IATA airline designator was PN, Pan Am still used the IATA code PA and the ICAO code PAA, [br]though neither incarnation had a relationship to the original Pan Am. [br]The third incarnation also had no relationship to the second [br]incarnation of the mid-1990s. During the mid-1970s, [br]there were two Pan Am flights operated around the world to set or break [br]previous around-the-world flying records. One was in May 1976, and the other in late October 1977 — the 50th birthday of Pan Am. <b>Liberty Bell Express:</b> This flight, using a Boeing 747SP-21 named Clipper Liberty Bell with registration number N533PA, broke the commercial plane around-the-world record set by a Flying Tiger Line Boeing 707, with the new record of 46 hours, 50 seconds. The flight left New York-JFK on May 1, 1976, and came back on May 3, 1976. The flight made only two stopovers during the journey, one in New Dehli, the other in Tokyo-Haneda, [br]where a two-hour delay was made because of a strike among the airport [br]workers. Nevertheless, the flight beat the 707's old record by 16 [br]hours, 24 minutes. <b>Flight 50:</b> In order to commemorate Pan Am's 50th birthday, Pan Am organized yet another around-the-world flight over the North Pole and the South Pole, this time, with three stopovers in London-Heathrow, Cape Town and Auckland before going back to its origin — San Francisco. The 747SP-21 used this time, Clipper New Horizons, is actually the former Liberty Bell, making the plane the only one to go around the globe over the Equator [br](as Liberty Bell) and the Poles (as New Horizons). The flight made it [br]in 54 hours, 7 minutes, 12 seconds, creating six new world records [br]certified by the FAI. The captain who commanded this flight also commanded the Liberty Bell Express flight.

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