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Juan Trippe


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Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb. For there can be no atom bomb potentially more powerful than the air tourist, charged with curiosity, enthusiasm and good will, who can roam the four courners of thw world, meeting in friendship and understanding the people of other nations and races.

Juan Trippe

Founder of Pan American Airlines and InterContinental Hotels, conclusion of his speech in New York at the 11th IATA conference, 1955.

How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nationalism … making of this world a tragic mosaic of hostility and hate? How can this fabulous new force … fail to serve the hope of the world and the peace of the world? … In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the Earth.

Juan Trippe

Founder of Pan American Airlines and InterContinental Hotels, speech at hangar 10, Washington National Airport, where First Lady Mamie Eisenhower christened Pan Am’s first B-707 Clipper America. 16 October 1958.

A great weapon for peace, competing with intercontinental missiles for mankind’s destiny.

Juan Trippe

Pan Am’s founder, on the B747, at the ceremonial 747 contract-signing banquet in Seattle on Boeing’s 50th Anniversary. April 1966. Quoted in the 2014 book The Airbus A380: A History and others.

Pan Am 747 future

Juan Trippe is thinking about the next decade … If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask [the Civil Aeronautics Board] to authorize regular service.

James M. Landis

While chairman of the CAB in the 1940’s. Quoted by The New York Times in Juan Trippe’s obituary, 3 April 1981. Originally quoted in Time magazine cover story on Juan Trippe and Pan Am, 28 March 1949.

Pan Am in 2001 movie

This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh’s flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.

Juan Trippe

Founder of Pan Am on the introduction of jet aircraft. Quoted in The Economist’s 2012 Book of Business Quotations.

Pan Am groovy .


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