[Milsurplus] Trans Pacific Pan Am

[Hue Miller]

Around 1975 Art Corbus, may he be in peace, of the Seattle PSARA
group, introduced me to Carl, a fellow who had apparently been
a Pan Am radioman and was now an insurance agent in eastern
Washington. Carl had just gotten himself one of those Pan Am
regenerative receivers, and was really happy about it. I am pretty
sure that over these years Carl too has moved on, and I wonder
what  ever happened to that receiver. 
That transpacific flight: I sure wouldn't want to wear a suit
and tie on such a long, mostly boring flight. That thing must 
have crawled across the Pacific at about 150 mph. Suits
and ties and polished leather shoes for the men, and dresses
and hats for the women. There must be a happy rational 
medium we can find, between the strict formalism of that past, 
and the who cares- barnyard slobbism you see practiced
in the cattle car airlines of today.  -Hue Miller