Originally Posted by
stepwilk
Wow, is that early-'60s Pan Am livery? (Not counting the tail.) I sure don't remember it looking like that...
Yes it is, apart from that tail (was it painted later or were camera angles used to show the front only ?)
Pan Am changed their livery to this one just in time for the first 707 to arrive in 1958, although quite a lot of the piston fleet then got repainted into it as well. It lasted for about 10 years (so throughout the 1960s), when the change was made from PAN AMERICAN on the fuselage to PAN AM; the remainder stayed the same. The shortened name suited the 747 proportions better; Pan Am seem to have changed their livery for the arrival of each major new type, then repainted the older fleet to suit.
Which Clipper name have they used ?