Round-the-World Flights

Pan American Flys its 100,000th TransAtlantic flight, then goes Round-the-World

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Flown Cover	Letter-Top	Letter-Bottom	Boeing 707-321	Douglas DC-8.33

	By 1962 Pan American was flying its original 707-100 Series and its newer longer range
707-300 Series jets on daily scheduled transatlantic and transpacific flight service.  
The impact of the Boeing 707's on passenger traffic was nothing short of dramatic. Douglas 
had introduced its DC-8 trying to regain its past mastering of long range commercial flights.  
We were in the Jet Age! Pan American World Airways could do no wrong and was stimulating 
worldwide air transportation.  
	Pan American reached 100,000 scheduled transatlantic crossings on July 2, 1962. Air Mail 
flight covers were carried between New York and Frankfurt, Germany on Pan Am Clipper flight #2,
which then proceeded round-the-world.
	It is interesting to note that on November 10, 1966, Pan Am made its 150,000 transatlantic
crossing with a flight from Paris, France to New York.	

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