The airlines expanded from several small planes to a single plane, the China Clipper, and cut travel time from the United States to Asia to six days. Juan Trippe founded Pan Am airlines in 1927 with a mail and passenger service from Key West to Havana. Julia Cooke, author of Come Fly the World captures the excitement of flying as a career in her recent non-fiction. Almost ten years after Tarzan showed Jane the joys of flying through the air in 1918 Planet of the Apes, women took it up and remain front page news, as in Wally Funk who recently fulfilled her 60-year dream following the shutdown of the Women in Space Program.
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