Although Whitney and John were relatively close (John was Cornelius Whitney's cousin), business is business. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info John still has to work hard to join the Pan American Department.

Moreover, although Whitney is the president of Pan America, everyone knows that the soul of Pan American is Juan Tripp. To be precise, Pan Am is supposed to have been founded by Juan Tripp with the support of several investors, including William Rockefeller and Cornelius Whitney.

However, in 1927, after acquiring New York banker Richard Hoyt's Atlantic-Gulf and Caribbean Airlines, the company was renamed the American Airlines Holdings. Richard Hoyt serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Whitney serves as President. Pan Am became a subsidiary of American Airlines, headed by Juan Tripp.

From the company's name, Pan American World Airways, it is not difficult to see that initially it mainly operated American airlines? Transport. At that time, the U.S. government designated Pan Am as the designated company for U.S. foreign routes, in order to prevent Air Colombia, which was held by German capital, from controlling the air traffic rights between the United States and Latin America. Pan Am has expanded rapidly with the government's strong support and monopoly on foreign mail delivery contracts.

At present, Pan Am not only includes Cuba, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and other Central and South American countries, but also successfully opened up business across the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. In addition to the routes from the United States to the United Kingdom and France, they have also obtained ? Navigation rights to Pearl Harbor, Midway, Wake Island, Guam, and Subic Bay, Manila. After the bankruptcy of the Civil Aviation Corporation of China in Guise, Pan Am also took over the company's routes, expanding its operations to Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shanghai.

All of this is inseparable from Juan Tripp's ingenuity. When it comes to aviation technology, Juan Tripp is a "genius". Although he is not an engineer, he has a keen sense of technology trends.

Originally, there was neither a navigation system nor a communication system to communicate with the ground, and pilots had to fly by visual sight. It was he who ordered the technical team to develop a fixed-loop direction finder that triangulated Morse code on aircraft, seagoing vessels, and land, greatly reducing the risk of pilot yaw.

Pan Am also became the first airline in the United States to use radio and navigation communications. He went on to sign transport agreements with 27 countries, set up 93 radio and weather stations on the American continent, and established the world's largest private radio communication network at the time.

In business, Juan Tripp is a genius. To compete with cruise ships, Pan Am was the first to offer first-class service to passengers. The crew will wear formal naval attire instead of leather jackets like the pilots who used to deliver mail, and the same procedures are used when boarding the ship. Later, it was he who pioneered the economy class service for the general public, which had a profound impact on the aviation industry for generations to come.

What impressed John the most was Tripp's clever way of linking Pan Am's interests to America's national interests. He has always appeared in front of the world as a head-to-head opponent of the United States against airlines with official backgrounds in other countries (Imperial Airways and KLM). As a result, Pan Am gained widespread support from the U.S. government and the public, and quickly grew into the world's largest and only international airline in the United States.

To deal with such a shrewd person, it is impossible to just talk about it, you must have a point of interest that can impress him. What is it about Hughes Aircraft that makes Tripp tick? There is only one answer, the most famous and worst aircraft of Hughes Aircraft Company in history - "Hercules" H4

At 66.6 meters long, 9.15 meters high, 97.54 meters wingspan, and 181.4 tons of take-off weight, this Jumbo transport aircraft is still the largest aircraft in the world (with the longest wingspan). The reason why Hughes wanted to design such a large plane at that time was because at the height of World War II, Allied ships in the Atlantic were often sunk by German U-boats, and European supplies and military supplies were often cut off. So the military needed a 150,000-pound transport plane, or 750 soldiers, or two giant 30-ton Sherman tanks.

However, although the military and Hughes himself invested a lot of research and development funds, by the time the H4 prototype came out, World War II was over. In the end, Hughes himself flew the only Hercules plane and flew 1 mile in full view of everyone to prove that the wooden behemoth could indeed fly. Then the H4 was locked in the hangar, because the military was no longer going to buy it.

John, of course, was not a loser like Hughes, who would spend $14 million on a giant plane that could barely fly. Then he built an air-conditioned hangar for it and hired a large group of people to maintain it every day until his death.

He knew very well that before the advent of jet engines, building such a large aircraft would be a dream. However, this did not prevent him from having the Hughes Aircraft Company's R&D team begin working on the design of the giant aircraft, nor did it prevent him from fooling Juan Tripp with the designs on these drawings in the future.

John knew that his penchant for cheap airliners had made Juan Tripp fascinated by jumbo airliners. Historically, both the Boeing 707 and the Boeing 747 were developed at his initiative. In Trip's view, the more frequent the flights, the larger the aircraft used, the lower the ticket price can be, and the more competitive Pan Am will be in the market.

However, for safety reasons, John did not dare to let Hughes, a severe obsessive-compulsive person, interfere in the design of this aircraft. It's not just that he can't stand Hughes's perfectionist character, but the key is that his net worth is really not enough for Hughes to lose. At the beginning, John promised Hughes that he would invest in the R&D project he led. If Hughes didn't care about it then, John wouldn't have to be forced to jump off the building by him.

Of course, even if you just stay on the blueprints, designing a giant aircraft is not an easy task. Within a year or two, John would not see results. John wasn't in a hurry about that. Now it is not time for FedEx to carry out large-scale air transportation business. John wondered if he had to wait for the post-war period before the market could have a bit of scale.

Before that, all he had to do was get on good terms with the Whitneys. For example, strengthen the partnership with the American Tobacco Company, founded by Cornelius Whitney's uncle. Another example is patting Ge Chu's cousin's ass and donating some money to the Whitney Museum of Art. John also wondered if he could also get a racehorse to raise and improve his common language with the Whitneys. It seems that when he was in Paris, he promised to buy Ella a pony. As a father, it's not good if you don't honor what you promised your daughter.