Skygods

The Fall of Pan Am

By: Robert Gandt

Narrated by: Thomas Block

Originally published by Wm. Morrow, in 1995, Skygods is the saga of America's most glamorous airline - from its meteoric ascent to its plunge to extinction. Pan Am blazed the way across the world's oceans with its magnificent Clipper ships, launched the first international jet service, was the first to fly the behemoth 747, was the lead customer for America's SST and the Concorde, and was even taking reservations for the first commercial flights to the moon.

Told from multiple viewpoints - pilots, stewardesses, management executives - Skygods is the life story of an American icon.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2012 Robert Gandt (P)2014 Robert Gandt

Very interesting story

This book chronicles the rise and fall of Pan Am. An interesting story in and of itself, but the author odd able to unveil the facts in such a way to keep you on the edge of your seat. The audio book version is great too, always providing tons of entertainment.

Brings the Imperial Airline to life again

Loved this book, always been a huge fan of Pan Am (even though I’m too young to have flown on it). Really good story, brings it to life.

good

the way it was to a Pan American Airlines
and the fall of a great Airline

Good History of the legendary Pan Am

Really enjoyed this. I was vaguely familiar with the history of PanAm and enjoyed all the history and background provided. I am old enough to have traveled on Pan Am in the 60's heyday and watched the downfall but didn't really follow all of the downfall through the 80s and 90s as it seems all of the legacy airlines were tanking. This provided a great overview. Highly recommend if you have any interest in the history of the Airlines.

Entertaining

This was a good listen overall if you like aviation and history. But there was something missing. Not sure what it was though, hence the 4 stars.