ERA | THE WORLD'S AIRLINE
747: Flight to London 1970. First-person account of the very 1st commercial flight of a Boeing 747, January 1970 from JFK to LHR by Glenn Little.
JTT's deal was big: Biggest commercial jet (680,000 lbs. gross weight), biggest commercial aircraft order ($525 million) and biggest jet engines.
2014 Hurricane Cristobal uncovered a small remnant from luggage on an old Pan American World Airways flight that went down in 1952 near San Juan.
NP733PA was delivered Dec. 12, 1969, the first in an illustrious line of Pan Am 747s that would change travel forever!
A Salute to Pan American World Airways and the 747s. A slideshow of Boeing 747 "Queen of the Skies" in Pan Am ads and promotional materials.
Tracing the space clipper'a design for the film "2001" and purchase of a space ship by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum.
The Jumbos Are Coming! Pan American World Airways' first B-747 at London's Heathrow Airport in 1970. Video of The Jumbo (1970) by British Pathé.
