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Pan Am
Pan Am, formally Pan American World Airways, was an American airline founded in 1927 to fly mail to Havana; it pioneered transoceanic flight and the jet age before going bankrupt in 1991.
Pan Am (2026)
Pan Am (2026) is the revival of Pan American World Airways, which flew from 1927 to 1991 and since 2025 has operated private-jet journeys while pursuing FAA certification.
Pan Am (TV series)
Pan Am is an American period drama television series on ABC, airing 2011 to 2012, about Pan Am stewardesses and pilots at the start of the Jet Age in 1963.
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103, also known as the Lockerbie bombing, was a London to New York flight destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270.
Pan Am Flight 214
Pan Am Flight 214 was a Boeing 707 that crashed near Elkton, Maryland, on December 8, 1963, after a lightning-triggered fuel tank explosion, killing all 81 aboard.
Pan Am Flight 806
Pan Am Flight 806, the Clipper Radiant, was a Boeing 707 that crashed on approach to Pago Pago, American Samoa, on January 30, 1974, killing 97 of 101 aboard.
Pan Am Flight 914
Pan Am Flight 914 is an urban legend about a 1955 airliner that supposedly vanished and landed in Caracas decades later, invented in the Weekly World News tabloid in 1985.
Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway (Carretera Panamericana) is a network of national highways from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, considered the world's longest and broken only by the Darién Gap.
Pan-pan
Pan-pan is the international radiotelephony urgency signal, spoken as three repetitions of "PAN PAN", announcing urgent safety messages about ships, aircraft, vehicles, or people, ranking below mayday.
Pan-tilt unit
A pan-tilt unit is a two-axis electromechanical positioner that points a mounted payload, such as a camera, sensor, or antenna, in horizontal (pan) and vertical (tilt) directions.
Pan'nan power station
Pan'nan power station is a coal-fired power station in Panzhou, Guizhou, China, with two 660 MW ultra-supercritical circulating fluidized bed units totaling 1,320 MW, built by PowerChina to burn low-heat-value coal.
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal, also known as Canal de Panamá, is an artificial waterway across the isthmus of Panama linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through locks, opened in 1914.
Panama Canal Authority
The Panama Canal Authority (Autoridad del Canal de Panamá, ACP) is the Panamanian public entity that operates the Panama Canal, taking over from the United States on December 31, 1999.
Panama Canal expansion project
The Panama Canal expansion project, also called the Third Set of Locks, added a new lane of locks opened in 2016 to let larger Neopanamax vessels cross the canal.
Panama Canal locks
The Panama Canal locks are chamber systems that raise ships 26 meters to Gatun Lake using only gravity, with original locks from 1914 and new locks from 2016.
Panama Canal Railway
The Panama Canal Railway is a railway line across the Isthmus of Panama linking Colón with Panama City, opened in 1855 as the first railroad to run from ocean to ocean.
Panama Canal Zone
The Panama Canal Zone (Zona del Canal de Panamá) was a strip of US-governed territory in Panama, granted in 1903 and returned to Panamanian jurisdiction in 1979.
Panama Ports Company
Panama Ports Company, a subsidiary of Hong Kong's CK Hutchison Holdings, operated the ports of Balboa and Cristóbal at the Panama Canal from 1997 until 2026.
Panamax
Panamax is a ship-size class defined by the original Panama Canal locks, fitting vessels up to 965 feet long, and it remains a distinct, heavily traded class after the 2016 expansion.
Panasonic (パナソニック)
Panasonic, formerly Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., is a Japanese multinational electronics group headquartered in Osaka, founded by Konosuke Matsushita in 1918 and renamed Panasonic group-wide in 2008.
Panasonic Energy
Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd. (パナソニック エナジー株式会社) is a Japanese battery manufacturer headquartered in Moriguchi, Osaka, established in 2022 and known as the largest Japanese battery maker, supplying over 40% of the batteries in US-produced electric cars.
Panasonic Lumix
Panasonic Lumix is the digital camera brand of the Japanese company Panasonic, launched in 2001 with Leica lenses and known for pioneering mirrorless and 4K video cameras.
Panavia Aircraft
Panavia Aircraft GmbH is the tri-national prime contractor company based in Munich, Germany, founded in 1969 by Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy to manage the Panavia Tornado combat aircraft.
Panavia Tornado
The Panavia Tornado, known in early planning as the NATO MRCA, is a twin-engine, variable-sweep-wing strike aircraft built by the United Kingdom, West Germany, and Italy, entering service in 1979 with nearly 1,000 delivered.
Panavia Tornado ADV
The Panavia Tornado ADV, or Tornado F3, was a long-range interceptor derived from the Tornado strike aircraft; 194 were built, serving the RAF and Saudi Arabia until 2011.
Pancam
Pancam (Panoramic Camera) is the multispectral stereo camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which landed in January 2004 and took more than 60,000 images.
PanCam (ExoMars)
PanCam, the Panoramic Camera, is the stereo, multispectral, and high-resolution camera system serving as the main remote-sensing instrument on ESA's Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover, scheduled to launch in late 2028.
Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios
Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios are Chennai recording studios founded by composer A.R. Rahman in Kodambakkam, base for his film scores since the early 1990s.
Panda bond
A panda bond is a bond issued in mainland China by a foreign institution and denominated in renminbi, giving overseas issuers access to China's domestic bond market.
PANDA fiber
PANDA fiber is a polarization-maintaining optical fiber in which two stress rods on either side of the core create strong birefringence, used mainly in fiber-optic gyroscopes and interferometric sensors.