Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Juan Trippe

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American entrepreneur Juan Trippe.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Juan Trippe

Juan Terry Trippe was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan American World Airways, one of the iconic airlines of the 20th century. He was involved in the development and production of the Boeing 314 Clipper, which opened trans-Pacific airline travel, the Boeing Stratoliner which helped to pioneer cabin pressurization, the Boeing 707 and the Boeing 747 which introduced the era of jumbo jets. Trippe's signing of the 747 contract coincided with the 50th anniversary of Boeing.

Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb. — © Juan Trippe
Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.
This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.
How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic of hostility and hate? How can this fabulous new force in the sky fail to serve the hope of teh world and the peace of the world?
In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.
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