Interview conducted by Carol McLaughlin on January 20, 2000.
The interview describes Dorothy Gulbransen’s experiences; she was the wife of Haakon Gulbransen, a Pan American World Airways pilot; husband’s routes and base cities: San Francisco, Alameda, Miami, Trinidad, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Beirut; flights she took: trial flight of the Boeing 314 China Clipper, trips on a Sikorsky S-42, with details about meal service on these flights; briefly discusses construction of the Clipper airplanes; briefly describes Ed Musick, Andre Priester, Harold Gray, and Sam Pryor; interactions with Glenn L. Martin; culture of Pan American pilots’ wives in San Francisco and Alameda in 1936; gains made through the Air Line Pilots Association; effects of policies on the pilots’ home life; interviewed by the press after her husband’s plane had engine trouble, which led to a Pan American policy about informing spouses about inflight incidents; describes her husband’s meeting with Prince Olaf of Norway as he fled the German invasion of Norway.
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