As a boy, Juan Trippe had witnessed Wilbur Wright's 1909 flight around the Statue of Liberty; as a teenager, he learned to fly. In 1917, he left Yale to become a military pilot. He didn't see ...

Buying an apartment in this iconic building, at 10 Gracie Square, was a full-circle moment for financier William Douglass, whose grandfather, Juan Trippe — founder of Pan American World Airways, ...

Juan Trippe made his reputation building Pan American World Airways into an airline that, for a time, was the United States’ unofficial flag carrier. Trippe and his group of investors initially ...