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In April 1970, Pan Am was in its 3rd month of operating Boeing 747’s. PA launched Trippe and Allen’s baby in a difficult environment with demand for flying falling in a recession, combined with new overcapacity. The severe problems with the giant Pratt JT3-D engines shutting down and overheating didn’t help. Boeing almost went bankrupt building the Jumbo, and many say this was Pan Am’s beginning of the end. Pan Am’s 747-100 were flying virtually all it’s major routes at this time. At the end of the day, the risk paid off and the 747 went on to revolutionize air travel and make a mint for Boeing.
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The Montreal-based quartet Fly Pan Am is the main project of Godspeed You Black Emperor's guitarist Roger Tellier-Craig. While both of these groups deal in complex, musique concrete-influenced instrumental pieces, Fly Pan Am pursues a more restrained, minimalist musical vision. The group's split seven-inch with Godspeed You Black Emperor, L'Espace Au Sol Est Redessine Par Des Immenses Panneaux Bleus/Sunshine + Gasoline, preceded their 1999 self-titled full-length debut, which was released on Constellation Records -- ... the home of GYBE. The sophomore effort Sedatif en Frequences et Sillons was issued in fall 2000. Two years later, Fly Pan Am issued Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vacu. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
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In order to raise cash, Pan Am cut off its profitable left arm, selling it’s Pacific routes (Except Hawaii) to United on April 22, 1985. With United’s service commencing on February 7, 1986, Pan Am’s map would now have a huge void between Honolulu and Bombay with it’s pioneering routes to Asia and the South Pacific gone. For the $750 million dollars, United ... received 18 planes including all of PA’s 747SPs, and 2700 of the finest employees in the airline business. Though the routes were profitable, Pan Am felt the cost to upgrade to modern equipment would be cost prohibitive even though the sale proceeds were directed toward the cost of A-320s ordered in 1984 as well as the A300s and A310s that were delivered. This timetable and map were the first after the disemboweled Pan Am in Asia and the South Pacific after 50 years of pioneering experience. Also, see the United timetables, maps, and memorabilia pages.
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Selection of officials for Pan Am events was discussed. Each member agreed that the present procedure is working well. Each Federation with a Tournament Council member gets to nominate/appoint a judge for these events. It is acceptable to nominate an official from another country/federation. Further, these points were discussed and approved. An official must be available for the entire event, meaning coming for the first day and leaving after the competition is finished.
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Until the 1970s, Pan Am had been known as "The Chosen Instrument." It earned that nickname because U.S. government policymakers favored it when deciding which carriers would be authorized to carry U.S. travelers to foreign lands. Though privately owned, Pan Am received the same kind of favorable treatment as government-owned foreign carriers.
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B[U]t above all else it was electricity and the Electric Tower that attracted the attention of the millions of people who visited the Pan American Exposition during the summer of 1901. Every building was outlined in incandescent lights, and at dusk, peak time at the exposition, when over two million light bulbs were turned on simultaneously, the effect was staggering. Walter Hines Page, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly and an enthusiastic booster of the exposition, described the scene: "Here is nocturnal architecture, nocturnal landscapes, nocturnal gardens and long vistas of nocturnal beauty. At a distance the Fair presents the appearance of a whole city in illumination." But for Page, as for all the visitors to the exposition, nothing rivaled the Electric Tower itself. "The Tower is a great center of brilliancy. There are perhaps not a half million electric bulbs, but there are hundreds and thousands of them and you are willing to believe that there may be millions.
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