Captain Frank M. Briggs: A Pioneering Pan American Pilot

By Patrick F. Briggs

Captain Frank M. Briggs - A Pioneering Pan American Pilot is the biography of a young Naval pilot who joined Pan Am in the mid-1930s during the romantic years of international aviation. He was involved in the early days of the Clipper Flying Boats that Juan Trippe used to establish the air routes in the Caribbean area and across the Pacific Ocean carrying US Mail and passengers across the globe. These flights were always challenging and sometimes dangerous. Frank Briggs was one of the early pilots flying the first flights to Auckland, New Zealand in 1937 and later that year he also flew on the first passenger flight to Hong Kong from Manila. His career continued as he flew flights for Pan Am in World War II and onward into the jet age and became the Chief Pilot of the Latin American Division. By the time he retired in 1970 he had risen to become Pan Am's number one pilot in seniority. His career began in the time of the open cockpit aircraft of the early 1930's, and ended in the latest Boeing airliners flown by Pan Am in the 1970's. This is the story of a young man's passion for flying and the role he played in the historic early days of international aviation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1480137944
• ISBN13: 9781480137943
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.3" x 8.0"