Even in the lower berths, Pan Am Clipper passengers traveled in comfort and style. The navigation station of the double ... the inboard engine on the right wing (“What about 3 engine?”).

An Army band on the tarmac at New York’s Idlewild Airport serenaded passengers as they boarded the Pan Am Clipper America for ... the 707’s designers swept its wing farther back than the ...

Newspaper accounts of the time speculated that the Clipper had been hit by a meteor, or even shot down by a flying saucer ...