And even when the daunting transpacific gap was finally bridged in June 1927 with a 26-hour nonstop flight from Oakland, the ...

The airplane speeds through the sky on its way to London as you dine on tender beef and caviar. Afterward, you make your way to the lower lounge to socialize with other passengers aboard the plane ...

Pan American Stratocruiser Flight 943 winged smoothly through the night sky, confident in its aloneness, all but oblivious to the black Pacific four miles below. It was 3:20 a.m., and inside the cabin ...

Steward John Harris was picking up the passengers’ pillows and blankets in the main cabin of the Pan American Stratocruiser. It was a little after 1130 a.m. and the airliner, inbound from London, was ...