The pan am terminal at Idlewild/Kennedy Airport and the transition from jet age to space aqe

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Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-80

  Leslie, Thomas ^a  

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EID: 21744440092     PISSN: 07479360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0747936053103048     Document Type: Review

References (39)

1. See, for example, Norman Foster's paean to the 747 in Ruth Rosenthal and Maggie Toy, Building Sights (London: Academy Editions, 1995).
2. Barnaby Conrad III, Pan Am: An Aviation Legend(Emeryville, CA: Woodford Press, 1999), 134.
3. "World's Greatest Airport to Serve Skyways of Tomorrow," Popular Science (August 1943): 75.
4. "Final [sic] Plan for Idlewild Airport," The New York Times (August 6, 1944).
5. "Lines Accept Plan for Idlewild Filed," The New York Times (August 6, 1944).
6. "Idlewild Test Case." Newsweek (December 27, 1948): 54.
7. The Pan Am Story (Pan American Airlines, ca. 1969), n.p.
8. John Morris Dixon, "Air Terminals for Jet Travel: New Problems and Trends," Progressive Architecture (November 1961): 128.
9. "Phenomenon of the Jet Age: The Dazzle of Idlewild," Life (September 22, 1961): 71.
10. Sandra Knox, "Idlewild Skyline Gets an Addition," The New York Times (June 3, 1960)
11. and "Aviation: Umbrella for Airplanes," Time (June 13, 1960): 103.
12. Sandra Knox, "Idlewild Skyline Gets an Addition."
13. "Aviation: Umbrella for Airplanes."
14. "New York's Idlewild - The New Look," Vogue (October 1, 1960): 194.
15. I b i d.
16. "Seeing Europe by Pan Am Jet" (Pan American World Airways Brochure, July 1961).
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19. Clipper Magazine 747 Souvenir Edition: System of the '70s (n.p., Pan American World Airways, ca. 1969), n.p.
20. "Seeing Europe by Pan Am Jet."
21. Reyner Banham, "The Obsolescent Airport," Architectural Review (October, 1962): 252.
22. George Scullin, International Airport: The Story of Kennedy Airport and U.S. Commercial Aviation (Boston: Little & Brown, 1968), 30.
23. Reyner Banham, "The Obsolescent Airport."
24. William Burrows, "Time Runs Out at JFK," New York Magazine 1:17 (July 29, 1968): 14-21.
25. I b i d.
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27. John F. Pearson, "New Era in Air Travel," Popular Mechanics (December 1969): 108-111.
28. The development of the 747 seat is described by Niels Differient in "Design with Backbone," Industrial Design (October, 1970): 44-47.
29. Calvin Trillin wrote convincingly of the "hump's" popularity as a lounge, noting that the new class of "Traveling People" seemed obsessed with "seeing something from twenty thousand and fifteen feet that [they] couldn't see from twenty thousand." Calvin Trillin, "U.S. Journal: NY/LA/NY: A Traveling Person on a Beautiful Place," The New Yorker (April 4, 1970): 66-77.
30. Early advertising used the catch phrase "The plane that's a ship, the ship that's a plane," tying the 747 experience directly to that of the then more familiar cruise ships.
31. Various print advertisements from ca. 1969 appearing in Esquire, Newsweek, and Playboy.
32. Pan Am refined its boarding procedures in preview exercises to load a full complement of 361 passengers on board a new 747 in less than twelve minutes, likely still a record. "Jumbo Jet-Airport Problems," U.S. News and World Report (Jan 26, 1970): 11.
33. Clipper Magazine 747 Souvenir Edition: System of the '70s (n.p., Pan American World Airways, ca. 1969), n.p.
34. Pan Am's Worldport Made Easy (brochure, New York: Pan Am, 1982), n.p.
35. Don Raney, "People and Planes: Can Airports Bridge the Gap?" Progressive Architecture (September 1969): 92-93.
36. "The 747: Into a New Air Age," Newsweek (October 27, 1969): 97.
37. I b i d.
38. "The eye height in the 747 is such that a pilot, in crossing the threshold at his customary eye level, would land well short of the runway... Pilots in transition [also] consistently underestimate the speed of the aircraft over the ground," Capt. Donald E. Kinkel in "Room at the Top," Industrial Design (October, 1970): 48.
39. "Aircraft: Period of Adjustment." Newsweek (July 13, 1970): 81.