The First Airline To Circle The Globe | Pan Am: Crossing the Pacific (Part 3)

Defying the skeptics, Pan Am builds an airway to Asia, allowing its airplanes to hopscotch across the world's widest ocean by landing at five steppingstone islands: Hawaii, Midway, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines. Air service from New York to London begins in 1939, completing a chain of airways encircling the globe.

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In the aftermath of WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airline builder Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz join forces to build an airline to South America and Trippe has dreams of conquering the world with international flights.

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