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[[Image- people on peer, boarding plane]]

JUNE 28TH 
1939

When WILL RODGER...
BACK IN '31... learned that Pan American intended to start experimental surveys for Transoceanic flying, he said, "If you boys ever get around to flying the ocean, I want to be your first passenger".And, if Will were here, he'd be with us today...passenger number one.
Since 1939 several hundred other air enthusiasts have had that same desire and in order of their application twenty-two were chosen and are on the "DIXIE" CLIPPER today. 
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[[Image- flight map from Port Washington to Horta to Lisbon to Marseilles]]

MAP ABOVE SHOWS ROUND-TRIP ROUTE OF PAN AMERICAN CLIPPER "DIXIE" ON ITS FIRST TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT CARRYING PASSENGERS

I can't imagine a more interesting group of fellow passengers and officers. All are experienced flyers...some have crossed the Pacific on the China Clipper...and others from the northernmost part of Europe to the southernmost part of Africa...while most of us have circled Central and South America by air.
To the whole world, this achievement of spanning the Atlantic in speed and comfort is regarded as nothing less than a miracle... but to those of us who have waited an hoped, this is the culmination of a lifetime of dreams brought to realization through vision and forethought.

[[Image- Man waving goodbye on dock before boarding plane]]
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