Edwin Musick
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Edwin Charles Musick was chief pilot for Pan American World Airways and pioneered many of Pan Am's transoceanic routes including the famous route across the Pacific Ocean, ultimately reaching the Philippine Islands, on the China Clipper.
Cuban franked Air Mail cover flown and autographed by PAA Capt. Edwin Musick on the first northbound flight of FAM 4 from Havana to Key West, Florida. October 29, 1927
Pan American Clipper flying over the incomplete western suspension span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, c.1935
Musick shaking hands with a representative of the Dole Food Company in a publicity photograph staged by the nose of China Clipper (c. 1936)
Fred Noonan
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Frederick Joseph Noonan was an American flight navigator, sea captain and aviation pioneer, who first charted many commercial airline routes across the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s. As the flight navigator for famed aviator Amelia Earhart in their pioneering attempt at circumnavigating the globe, they disappeared somewhere over the central Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937.
Noonan and Earhart prepare for the flight to Lae at Port Darwin, Australia on June 28, 1937