Trippe juan t (4 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover issued without dust-jacket. Blue cloth boards. No dust-jacket. Staining to front board. Otherwise, clean and solid. 31 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition blue linen boards with silver front cover and spine lettering. Includes Foreword by Thomas H. Davis, May 20, 1977, President of the Wings Club and Photo Credits. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and two page black-and-white photographic plates. UNCIRCULATED EX-GENEOLOGY DEPARTMENT LIBRARY REFERENCE COPY. "For Reference Do Not Take From This Room" sticker neatly affixed to upper edge of inner front board, three library stamps, and a bookplate neatly affixed to the inner front board with a Donated to the Library by. text. "The Wings Club is privileged to have as its Fourteenth "Sight" Lecturer Juan Terry Trippe, this country's pioneer of over-ocean flying and one who is recognized as the dean of airline executives around the world. The subject chosen for this year's Sight Lecture was the late Charles A. Lindbergh whose solo flight to Paris fifty years ago made such a significant worldwide impact on commercial aviation. We are thus especially fortunate in having Mr. Trippe as our lecturer since he knew and worked with Charles Lindbergh during virtually all of his adult life. Mr. Trippe served as a naval aviator in World War I. On returning to Yale, he organized the Yale University Flying Club. After graduation, he operated an air charter service on Long Island and then was one of the founders of Colonial Air Transport, serving as its managing Director from 1924 to 1926. In 1927, Mr. Trippe founded Pan American Airways and his entire working life then became dedicated to the development of international air transportation. When Pan American made its first flight October 19, 1927 on the 90 mile route between Key West, Florida and Havana, Cuba, it had $300,000 in total assets. When Mr. Trippe retired as Chairman of the Board and President in 1968, Pan Am had assets exceeding a billion dollars and a route system of some 80,000 miles linking the United States with some 85 countries on six continents. Mr. Trippe continued as Chairman Emeritus until 1976 and is now an Honorary Director of Pan Am and still active in company affairs. In the early days, the famed survey flights by Charles Lindbergh were made at Mr. Trippe's instigation. They served as the foundation for Pan Am's Caribbean, Central and South American route system and then, later, the North Atlantic route. Lindbergh's survey flight north to the Orient was also made in connection with Pan Am's route development plans. Under Mr. Trippe's direction, Pan Am was the first airline to fly across the Pacific, the first with passenger service across the Atlantic, the first to order and operate American built jet transports and the first to order the wide bodied Boeing 747. In recognition of his contributions to aviation, tourism and trade, Mr. Trippe has been awarded 26 decorations by 19 foreign countries and was awarded by President Truman the Medal of Merit, the United States highest civilian award. Mr. Trippe is a founding member of The Wings Club and in 1942 was a member of the Club's first Board of Directors. He personally arranged some badly needed financial support without which the Club might not have survived its early days. The Wings Club is honored to have as its 1977 Sight Lecturer an outstanding pioneer of commercial aviation who from the earliest days of the fledging airline industry has seen it all happen and has, furthermore, played a major role in establishing our country's prredominant position in air transportation." Thomas H. Davis, May 20, 1977 - from the Foreword.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with silver lettering. Binding clean and tight. Title page dated 1977. Copyright page dated 1977. 31 pages. Black and white photographs in the text. Pages clean and crisp. Chris Sterling signed title page. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with silver lettering. Title and copyright pages dated 1977. 31 pages. Good condition. Covers have some light smudging but are in otherwise very good condition. Front inside cover has glue remnants of a library card paste-in which is still tucked in. Front free end paper has a red rubber stamp identifying this book as part of the Corporate Library, dated 1977. Binding is strong; pages are clean. Black and white photographs throughout. Overall a nice reading copy.…