“As a young child I flew on a Pan Am 747 and I instantly became obsessed ... who owns an IT company. “We worked our tail off to be sitting up there in first class. It’s like flying ...

He had rented a warehouse in the City of Industry, hired a contractor, spent more than $100,000 of his savings and built an exact replica of a large chunk of a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747.

One of her favorite trips was flying to Dakar, Senegal, on the 747, where she was language ... passengers felt seeing that big Pan Am blue ball on the airplane tail,” says Reynolds.

This ultimate example of the famous airliner has a depiction on its tail of Atlas ... the year before Pan Am started flying the 707 to Honolulu. By 1970, the 747’s inaugural year, that figure ...

But Pan Am's Juan Trippe — who made a $500 million ... And we mean jumbo: the 747's tail towers as tall as a six-story building. When it was introduced, the plane's 225-foot length dwarfed ...

And Pan Am claimed a string of achievements – including the launch airline for the Boeing 747 Jumbo jet, on a flight from New York JFK to London Heathrow in 1970, and the world’s first round ...

But Pan Am's Juan Trippe — who made a $500 million ... And we mean jumbo: the 747's tail towers as tall as a six-story building. When it was introduced, the plane's 225-foot length dwarfed ...

One of her favorite trips was flying to Dakar, Senegal, on the 747, where she was language ... passengers felt seeing that big Pan Am blue ball on the airplane tail,” says Reynolds.