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Gene Banning Collection Donated to PAHF — Edward Trippe Spring 2021 www.panam.org NEWSLETTERCLI OF THEPP PAN AMER HISTORICAL FOUNDATION From The Chairman, Gene Banning Collection Donated to PAHF — Edward Trippe... Volunteers Help Retrieve, Catalogue and Preserve Historic Materials By Doug Miller his story goes back decades to a Ttime when a new Pan Am pilot named Gene Banning became fascinated with the growing empire of Pan Ameri- can World Airways. His interest soon grew into a studied pursuit and then a life-long passion. The COVID-19 virus has stressed us all, but as I write this letter, Spring and Fast forward decades, to the 1990’s. Now a return to normal life are both in sight. retired, Captain Banning had amassed I hope that our extended PAHF fam- a trove of historic Pan Am materials, ily and friends have survived and are not only his own but those of colleagues such as George Price, Bill Seeman and healthy. As we look ahead, and I know Capt. Banning, courtesy Univ. of Miami I speak for many, we will be happy others. The material in his collection Special Collections to turn the page and return to some was instrumental in helping Banning to author what has become one of the very from Mrs. Banning’s residence. The col- semblance of normalcy — whatever the lection was temporarily stored in a space ‘new norm’ is for each of us. best books ever written about “the world’s most experienced airline”: ‘The Airlines of at the AWARE store in Miami. Remembering Stephen Lyons, Pan American Since 1927’. (Paladwr Press; When it was time to downsize AWARE’s Producer for Across the Pacific Maclean, VA; 2000). storage space, it was critical to find a Notwithstanding COVID, the past year Gene Banning will long be associated new home for almost thirty boxes of has been eventful. While we celebrated the Banning collection. One choice was the long-awaited arrival of ‘Across the with promulgating Pan Am’s legacy thanks to his superlative book. His to send them directly to the University Pacific’, the PBS documentary which of Miami’s Special Collections. But it chronicled Pan Am’s amazing techno- commitment to academic research also led to the creation of the annual Dave might be an unknown hiatus before logical advances in aviation leading to Special Collections Director, Cristina the opening of air routes to Asia, we Abrams-Eugene Banning Fellowship, supported by your Foundation and Favrett, could allocate the required time also mourned the untimely passing of and resources to catalog the documents, Stephen Lyons, the documentary pro- awarded by the University of Miami’s Special Collections. films, artifacts and photographs. And ducer. Steve created the documentary not all of this material belonged in the in association with the Pan Am Histori- When Captain Banning passed away archive. cal Foundation, with major funding in 2005, his wife, Jackie, survived as from the National Endowment for the caretaker of the many boxes of materi- Recognizing the significance of this col- Humanities and others. His incisively als Gene had amassed in their former lection, Nicola Hellmann-McFarland, written history captured the characters home in South Florida. She eventually who serves as the main reference as- of Juan Trippe, Charles Lindbergh, Igor decided to donate his collection to the sistant at the Richter Library on the Sikorsky, and others. ‘Across the Pacific’ Foundation. Pan Am Collection, came to the rescue. Along with her colleague, rare book cat- was shown on most PBS stations across Things might have stalled there, but for the country and can now be viewed on aloger Linde Brocato, they volunteered the generous intervention of the late to work on their own time to do what Amazon and other streaming networks. Captain Harvey Benefield, who under- Chairman cont. p. 2 took the actual retrieval of the boxes Banning Collection cont. p. 4 Chairman from p. 1 Flying Boat Graphics Memorializes Miami’s Seaplane History Marine Air Terminal at New Public Parking Complex By Jeff Kriendler The Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia Airport has long been an icon Miami’s new Grove Bay Public Parking of Pan Am’s golden age of the great flying Garage is the canvas for a series of bold boats. It was also the headquarters of Pan graphics that pay homage to the his- Am’s North Atlantic operations during toric Pan Am seaplanes that once flew WWII, continuing until the opening of from the site. Aviation images woven Idlewild Airport (now JFK) in 1952. The on shimmering stainless steel mesh building is listed as a national landmark so fabric are part of Miami’s ‘Art in Public its place in aviation history is secured. To Places’ program and were designed to recognize and memorialize Pan Am’s MAT obscure vehicle visibility. operations, PAHF has commissioned three The garage’s location at Coral Grove’s bronze plaques. Additionally, a new model Dinner Key was home to the first of the B-314 has been commissioned and Photo credit: Grove Bay Cambridge Architectural continental naval station in the early will hang in the central rotunda of the 1900s. It later became the base for The second and third floors on four terminal building. Pan Am’s Clipper Flying Boats serv- out of five sides of the garage are The plaque at the building entrance ing Havana and destinations in South covered with metal mesh that fea- commemorates the opening of the MAT America from 1930 – 1945. tures eight images of Pan Am’s iconic in 1940 by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia Flying Boats that made Coconut A public-private venture between the and Juan T. Trippe, President, Pan Ameri- Grove the center of America’s earli- City of Miami, Miami Parking Au- can Airways. The plaque also recognizes est international operations. Eastern thority and investors, the garage serves the Architects, William Delano and Airlines and National Airlines are also customers at Regatta Harbour’s shops, Chester Aldrich, who were among the included in the exhibit. The images are restaurants and marina, as well as visi- foremost architects of the period. Delano interspersed with milestone dates and tors to Miami City Hall, the former and Aldrich were also the architects for aviation descriptors that tell the story art deco Pan American terminal. The Pan Am’s terminal buildings at Dinner of aviation history in Miami. garage is directly visible from a major Key and Treasure Island, as well as the street and at the gateway to City Hall. The shimmering steel mesh was hotels on Midway and Wake Islands. The prominent location required that designed and produced by Cambridge The second plaque will be placed at the the building’s façade be attractive and Architectural and was woven by arti- entrance to the MAT rotunda and recog- imaginative. sans on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. ✈ nizes the artist, James Brooks, who painted the huge mural, “FLIGHT”, which sur- mail, and cargo at a cruising speed of 188 growing digital resources and that of rounds the entire gallery of the rotunda. miles per hour. PAHF has commissioned a other institutions, the PAHF digital Three abstract panels divide the mural new model of the “Yankee Clipper” which museum will provide rotating exhibits into segments. The first section shows will hang in the center of the rotunda, drawing from Pan Am’s rich history of vi- the legendary flight of Daedalus and his replacing the old, smaller B-314 model. sual and audio archives. PAHF will work son, Icarus, who fell from the sky after his The new B-314 model has a wing-span collaboratively with other Pan Am history waxed wings were melted by the sun. The of 15 feet and will be a more prominent stakeholders including University of Mi- second section depicts Leonardo da Vinci’s feature in the MAT rotunda. Discussions ami, HistoryMiami, SFO Museum, Duke flying devices, and the Wright Broth- with the Port Authority are continuing University, and the Pan Am Museum ers first flight at Kitty Hawk. The third regarding the ultimate location of the old Foundation (PAMF) to produce digital section is particularly relevant to Pan Am B-314 model. PAHF has proposed that content. Online exhibits will include and the MAT, and depicts Pan Am’s flight it go into a permanent LGA museum. In short documentaries and other story-tell- operations, a departing Boeing B-314, and the interim it may be lent to the PAMF ing techniques. The digital museum will well-wishers waving their good-byes. for their exhibit at the Cradle of Aviation be accessible on a new website that will The third plaque provides information Museum on Long Island. be linked to the PanAm.org website. ✈ about the “Yankee Clipper”, the Boeing PAHF Digital Museum B-314 which inaugurated trans-Atlantic PAHF Annual Meeting Our digital team is planning a significant service on May 20, 1939. The B-314 was This year’s Annual Meeting will be a new development for PAHF’s online the largest and most important aircraft to Zoom meeting to be scheduled in June. presence. Plans are underway for “The be built during the era of the great flying Details as to how to access the meet- Pan Am Digital Museum,” a new online boats. It had the range to cross the Atlantic ing will be sent out with the Meeting approach to presenting the story of Pan and Pacific Oceans, carrying passengers, Notice, Annual Report and Proxy. American’s history. Drawing on PAHF’s 2 2 Trauma and the Pan Am Family By Helen Davey, Ph.D. n December 4, 1991, Pan American Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Fall of OWorld Airways, a proud symbol of Pan American Airways’, and is about the U.S.
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