M-156, 161
Mars, 170
Masland, Captain William, 55
Master X, 160
Matson Steamship Line, 108
Maybach engines, 46
Mayo, Major R. H., 83, 120
Meigs, USS, 117
Mercury-Maia composite, 120–21, 139
Mermoz, Jean, 86, 88–89, 91
Midway, 1, 74–75, 80, 103–4, 108; during World War II, 144–46
Milburn, Lassiter, 96
Mitchell, Billy, 26, 95
Mitscher, Marc A., 12
Moffett, Admiral William, 30–33
Monsun, 48
Montgomery, John K., 26–27
Morgan, C. W. P., 16
Morton, Norma, 106
Mullahey, Bud, 80
Musick, Captain Edwin, 1–3, 21, 69
Naval Aircraft Factory, 19
Naval Air Transport Service, 131
Navigation, aerial, 11, 78, 102–4
Navy, French, 21, 87–88, 92
Navy, Royal, 9–10, 131, 163, 165
Navy, Russian, 42
Navy, U.S.: cooperation with Curtiss, 6–8; Consolidated aircraft, 30, 32–33, 37, 130; during World War I, 10–11; during World War II, 131, 144, 146, 152–53, 157, 159, 161; Martin aircraft, 33, 37, 95, 169–70; Moffett helps NYRBA, 30–33; NC boats, 11–17; P2Y Pacific crossing, 73, 79; Pan American ocean bases, 73–75, 77, 109; search for missing clippers, 115, 117; Sikorsky aircraft, 30–31, 44, 66, 130–31; Trippe, 23–24
Night Flight, 56
Noonan, Fred, 78–79, 102–4, 118
North Haven, SS, 75, 77, 108, 144
North Wind, SS, 113
NYRBA (New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line), 29–38, 44, 52, 75
O’Brien, Pat, 106
O’Hara, Maureen, 162
O’Neill, Ralph, 29–38, 75
Ostrich theory, 39
Pago Pago, 112–16
Panagra (Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc.), 44, 54
Panair Do Brazil, 38
Pan American, 27, 40; takeovers, 30, 34–38; aircraft orders, 44–45, 167; Atlantic expansion, 139, 167. See also Trippe
Parish, Jocko, 150
Patterson, Paul, 108
Pennsylvania, USS, 6, 7
Pheil, A. C., 18
Philadelphia Rapid Transit, 54, 100
Piaggio Co., 47
Plesman, Dr. Albert, 54
Portal, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles, 154
Porte, John Cyril, 8, 9
Port Washington, 91, 141
Post, Wiley, 105
Post Office, U.S. See airmail
Pound, Sir Dudley, 154
Powell, Ethel, 106
Pratt and Whitney engines, 44, 48, 61, 66, 68, 77, 97, 102, 130, 132, 149
Priester, Andre, 54–57, 60–61, 67, 97, 100, 138
Probert, William, 162
Qantas, 72, 114, 153–54, 163
Quezon (governor of Philippines), 105
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 43
Ralph, Captain Fred, 142, 147–48
Rand, James, 30–31
Raynham, Freddie, 16
Read, Albert C., 13, 15
Richardson, Holden, 7, 13, 33
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 27
Rihl, George, 53
Robertson, Ben, Jr., 156
Rockaway Beach, N. Y., 12
Rockefeller, William A., 25
Rohrbach, Adolf, 51
Rohrbach aircraft, 50–51
Rolls-Royce engines, 47
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 139
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 100, 105, 110
Roth, William, 108
Rothe, Swede, 150
Rowe, Basil, 52, 63–65
Russian Clipper. See Martin M-156
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 56, 88
St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line, 18, 21
Saunders-Rowe Princess, 167–68
SCADTA (Sociedad Colombo-Alemana de Transportes Aéreos), 26, 51–52
Schildhauer, C. H. “Dutch”, 73
Sergievsky, Boris, 62, 69
Short, Oswald, 83, 85
Short’s flying boats, 82, 85, 119–23, 126; during World War II, 153–54; final disposition, 163–64
Siemens engines, 49
Sikorsky, Igor, 30, 39–45, 60–65, 67–69, 135, 167
Sikorsky aircraft
Grand, 39, 40–41
Ilia Mourmetz, 41–42
S-1 through S-6, 41
S-29A, 43
S-34, 43
S-35, 43
S-36, 44
S-38, 30–31, 44, 52, 58–59, 60
S-40, 40, 60–67
S-42, 67–71, 77, 85, 112–13, 116, 119–20, 126. See also Hong Kong Clipper
S-44, 129–33, 161–62
SNETA, 21
Société France Hydro, 165
Spaatz, Carl, 26
Sperry, Lawrence, 9
Sperry autopilot, 103, 165
Standardization, 55
Stone, Lieutenant Elmer, 13
Sullivan, R. O. D., 79–81, 103, 141, 156–57
Swanson, Claude, 74
Taylor, Rear Admiral David W., 11, 12
TEAL, 153, 163–64
Terletsky, Leo, 116–18
Tilton, Captain John, 108
Towers, John, 8, 12–15
Treasure Island, 157
Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland, 13
Trippe, Elizabeth, 58, 108
Trippe, Juan, 2, 22, 124, 129; AEA fight, 128–29; aircraft orders, 45, 60–61, 96–98, 169; Atlantic, 139–41; early career, 23–28; Latin America, 52–59; NYRBA takeover, 34, 37; Pacific, 72–74, 106–8, 113, 162; World War II, 143. See also Pan American
Turner, H. Lanier, 142–43
TWA, 57
U-boats, 11, 168
United Aircraft Corp., later United Technologies Corp., 129–30
United Nations, 160
Uppercu, Inglis M., 20
Vanderbilt, William H., 26
Van Dusen, C. A., 96
Van Dusen, William, 101, 103
Vought-Sikorsky. See Sikorsky aircraft
Wake, William, 73
Wake Island, 1, 73, 75, 80–81, 108–9, 141; during World War II, 142, 144–47, 158
Walker, “Tex”, 117
Wallace, Mrs. Henry, 130
Wanamaker, Rod, 8, 11
Warner, Edward, 33
Wead, Frank, 106
Westfalen, 48, 125
West Indian Aerial Express, 52–53
Whitney, Cornelius “Sonny”, 25–26, 108
Wilcockson, A. S., 119
Wing loading, 68, 97, 126, 132, 136–37
Woods, Clarence, 35
Wright, Vic, 79, 113
Wright, Wilbur and Orville, 4, 23
Wright engines, 93, 95, 135–36, 164, 170
Yale Aero Club, 24, 25
Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku, 111
Zeppelin, 10, 46
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Gandt is a former naval officer, international airline captain, and air show performer. In a parallel career, he is a journalist, screenwriter, and the author of thirteen books on military and aviation subjects. His definitive naval aviation work, Bogeys and Bandits, was adapted for the television series Pensacola: Wings of Gold.
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