The spacious interior of the Boeing 747 presented challenges for airlines to fill with paying passengers. Pan Am played a ...

Iran Air's Tehran to New York route was the longest in the world (roughly 6,124 miles), proving difficult for the 747-100 to accomplish without refueling, as it had a maximum range of 5,620 miles. So ...

Between 1970 and 1977, Delta Boeing 747s flew between large American cities like Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago, ...

John Travolta is a Hollywood icon with his own adoring fans – but even he can become starstruck. The 70-year-old actor has ...

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"The Pan Am 747 didn't start service until January ‘70, but [the movie is set in] the fall of '69, and Leo DiCaprio is flying to Europe in a 747 — it wouldn't have been possible." Travolta was ...

John mentioned, “The Pan Am 747 didn't start service until January '70, but (the movie is set in) the fall of '69, and Leo DiCaprio is flying to Europe in a 747 - it wouldn't have been possible.” ...

The first Boeing 747 rolls off the production line with Pan Am markings and dwarves a Pan Am Boeing ... [+] 707-321B sitting in the foreground, Everett, Washington, March 5, 1969. Trippe's bet on ...

The 747 was imagined in the 1960s to meet a growing demand for air travel, with Pan Am asking Boeing to design a plane twice the size of the 707, the first jetliner. The Seattle manufacturer did ...

The first 747, which was fit to carry 347 passengers, flew with Pan Am in 1970 from New York to London. "I can't emphasize how big of a sense of employee pride there is with this airplane," she said.

Designed in just 28 months, the 747 was the first ever twin-aisle jetliner and was first introduced by the now-defunct airline Pan Am in 1970. Traditionally one of Boeing's best selling products ...