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Tidlege år. Trippe vart fødd i New Jersey i 1899. På grunn av førenamnet «Juan» vart han ofte teken for å vera av cubansk opphav, men familien hans var av nordeuropeisk opphav som hadde slått seg ned i Maryland i 1664. I røynda var han kalla opp etter Juanita Terry, den venezuelanske kona til grandonkelen sin.
Juan Terry Trippe was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan American World Airways, one of the iconic airlines of the 20th century. He was instrumental in numerous revolutionary advances in airline history, including the development and production of the Boeing 314 Clipper, which opened trans-Pacific airline travel, the Boeing Stratoliner which helped to ...
12 de abr. de 2020 · Even though the three Army officers founded the airline, it was the leadership of entrepreneur Juan Trippe that helped transform it into an aviation powerhouse. Then known as Aviation Corporation of the Americas, it combined with the Grace Shipping Company in 1928 to form Panagra - a shortening of "Pan American-Grace Airways".
13 de feb. de 2017 · Son of Juan Trippe Passes Away. “Charlie,” 81 years young, died peacefully but reluctantly at home in Westport Point, MA on January 29, 2017 in the company of his family. He was a perpetrator of wild schemes, energetic and hardworking, an enthusiastic family sailor, a lover of golf, skiing, and football, and a loyal and generous family man.
Despite Pan Am's being a leader in low operating costs, deficits grew. The magic era ended with the passing on of Juan Trippe in 1981, and a succession of managements were unable to regain profitability. The rapid rise of world terrorism, culminating in the tragedy of Lockerbie, was the final deathblow.
Juan Trippe, Charles Lindberg, Igor Sikorski, and Hugo Leuteritz together made the impossible possible. Across the Pacific is a documentary series about one of the great milestones in aviation history: the 1935 crossing of the Pacific Ocean by a Pan American Airways flying boat, the China Clipper.
