Shy, smiling Juan Terry Trippe, president of Pan American Airways, whose planes fly 12,000,000 mi. yearly over 22,000 mi. of routes, presented himself last week to a Department of Commerce inspector at Roosevelt Field, L. I. He wanted a private pilot's license. If the inspector examined Mr. Trippe's log he saw a record of score 600 hours at the controls. Also Mr. Trippe might have told him how he learned to fly in Miami in 1917; served as a Navy pilot 1917-18, qualified as a night bomber pilot; bought a battered "Jenny"...
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