Interview conducted on March 23, 1999. 4 audio cassettes The interview describes Captain Charles Cutting’s career at Pan American World Airways as a Flight Engineer (Second Officer), flight instructor, Co-Pilot (First Officer), and Pilot (Captain) from 1956 until his retirement in 1990. He discusses his education in aviation, his military service with the U.S. Navy Air Corps between 1951 and 1953, and his work as a flight test engineer at Douglas Aircraft Company. He describes earning his commercial pilot’s license during his military service and his initial hiring by Pan American as a Flight Engineer. He discusses his experiences in ground school for Pan American, his work as a flight engineer, and his furlough in 1957 that led to his being hired as a flight instructor until he could be rehired as a flight engineer. He describes a paper trainer he designed for instruction of new pilots. He describes his firing in 1961 following a strike by the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA), the conflict between pilots and flight engineers during that strike, and his eventual rehiring by Pan American as a Pilot (Captain). He briefly discusses his training sessions in the Pan American control tower at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in 1956. He discusses the airplanes he flew, including the Douglas DC 6 and DC 7C; and the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, 707, 727, and 747. He describes the routes he flew, including the Pacific Division routes from San Francisco to Honolulu and Juneau; Honolulu to Canton Island, Fiji, Australia, Wake Island, Guam, London, Istanbul, Tehran, Tokyo, Saigon, Da Nang, Hong Kong, and South Korea; and Berlin to Frankfurt and Munich. He relates his thoughts about the working conditions at Pan American; the consequences of jets requiring smaller crews on his career, including furloughs; and the effect of seniority on his career path. He describes his experiences while flying Pan Am Flight 101 from Tehran to Rome with stops in Damascus and Beirut on March 17, 1976, including a close call on takeoff from Damascus. He describes meeting Lt. General James “Jimmy” Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, Donald Douglas (of Douglas Aircraft), Grover Loening (of Grover Loening Aircraft Company), and President Lyndon Johnson.