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Robert L. Gandt – Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am - William Morrow & Company, New York, 1995, 1ª edição absoluta, 326 páginas.

Em língua Inglesa

Hardcover

Sobrecapa e livro em bom estado, sem assinatura de posse, notas ou sublinhados.

Ilustrado

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Do Library Journal:

Aviation journalist and pilot Gandt interweaves the complex and interesting story of Pan Am's rise under founder and visionary Juan Trippe with American business and politics.

Trippe molded Pan Am from the glory days of flying boats and the opening of Pacific routes to new piston-driven airliners and the transition to jets. In 1965 Pan Am was the world's preeminent airline, boasting 40,000 employees, 143 airliners, and over $1 billion in revenues; it was also the torchbearer for new aircraft designs.

How Trippe achieved this and influenced Presidents Kennedy and Johnson reveal the workings of American business and politics.

In 1968 foreign carriers increased, revenues declined, and Trippe resigned. In the Seventies a series of catastrophic accidents, increasing competition, rising fuel costs, and a strike started the downward spiral exacerbated by the 1988 Lockerbie tragedy and Chapter 11 proceedings.

A fascinating commentary on aviation and American business