Juan Trippe Revolutionized Trips By Air With Pan Am

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Checking the company stock on Yahoo's Boeing stock page, I ran across a cool article on Pan Am Airlines.
If anyone has seen old James Bond movies, you will notice they used Pan Am a lot.

What I did not know though was that Juan Trippe was responsible for a lot of modern aviation tech in his time, and he was also one who pushed Boeing to build the big 747.
If you are an aviation buff, you might enjoy this three page article.

http://news.investors.com/100914-72...-am-airways.htm?ven=yahoocp,yahoo&src=aurlled

• Invented the modern airline industry.

• Introduced cockpit electronics to fly in any weather.

• Ordered aircraft that were far beyond what builders thought they could produce.

• Forced the world to open its airports to affordable tourism.

"Trippe was an unrivaled visionary and the greatest missionary of the jet age," William Stadiem, author of "Jet Set," told IBD.
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Trippe's Keys

Founder of Pan American Airways.
Overcame: Low capability of planes to fly overseas.
Lesson: Challenge your team to reach tough goals.
"Some people look ahead six months or a year. Juan Trippe is thinking about the next decade, maybe two or three," said Jim Landis, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, in 1949.
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Glad you guy's liked it.
I think we all know someone who has brought many new ideas to guitar building too.
 
No Mini eTunes here.

We tune our guitars ourselves, and PRS guitars stay in tune!
Only guitars with wet necks need them :D

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