Originally Posted by
JDiver
Perhaps you flew in more than one aircraft, because I’m sure you don’t remember the dry loud noise and props through the window on a turbojet aircraft. DC-7s were still around in the 1960s, though sometimes on less important routes. (In 1965 I flew in a UA DC-7C SMF-SFO.) And perhaps it wasn’t Pan Am? Depending on the year, it looks like PA east-west USA flights were operated by AA. See below 1966.
I know for sure the wings I got from the pilots were Pan Am. But perhaps there was another flight involved. We were living in Newport, RI at the time and we had to get to New York somehow and I don’t remember if my father drove us or if we might have flown there. I know it wasn’t by train because I would have remembered that for sure. Unfortunately, neither of my parents are around any longer to ask.