The Roswell Connection

1941: Walker Air Force Base opens as the Army Air Corps Flying School, but it is generally not known for that. In 1947 a much controversial landing occurred here when it was known as Roswell Army Airfield.
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Roswell Army Airfield officially closed with its secrets in 1967.
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Two years later another fascinating landing and worldwide news: Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 N733PA “Clipper Young America “. Pan Am used Roswell Airfield (ROW) as the flight training base for those new additions to the aircraft fleet.
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We thank Rob pictured with the camera and his father Pan Am Captain Robert C Hummel Junior who was among the first crew of pilots trained at Roswell, for these fantastic personal photographs.

"To be clear, the photos of Captain Hummel in a suit are from a VIP tour of the Boeing Paine Field Plant in July of 1969. The Roswell photo is from November when the first tow airworthy 747 were flown there & training began," Rob Hummel