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LIFE at 75: A question for a man arriving on the Clipper.

LIFE at 75: The Stetson Stratoliner $6.50. A hat as high-styled as its airplane namesake. https://goo.gl/38LV90

The Pan Am Hotel on Midway Island, nicknamed "Gooneyville Lodge", hosted trans-Pacific passengers from about 1935 to...

Photographs of LIFE veteran Loomis Dean, who was invited aboard this luxury post-war conversion of a consolidated...

Airline Postcard Collecting: America Airlines​ Douglas DC3 Flagship Skysleeper including cabin, Pullman-style...

Pan American Airways' famous Pan Am Clipper base on Dinner Key in Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL.

TWA ad from 1940 featuring the "Stratoliner".

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: A new generation discovers new horizons, & America discovers a new industry.

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: "Wings Over INTERNATIONALS": Airplanes, airports & air mail back in the day.

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: "Should husbands fly?" (A message from the Air Transport Assoc.) http://bit.ly/1r1bwpH

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: "Look to Lockheed Leadership". Long service for 28 world airlines. http://bit.ly/Y3mMcW

HOWARD HUGHES' FLYING PENTHOUSE: Before the Cosmic Muffin, there was the Penthouse.

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: "It Pays to Fly": Educational campaign sponsored by the Nation's 16 major airlines.

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: Llloyd Child, world record power-diver (575 MPH in a Curtiss Hawk 75-A), gives his slant on...

LIFE 1939: John I.