The first Pan Am , tail number NPA, left the fleet in , and many airplane spotters believe it to have been destroyed. But among the attendees at the gala were two businessmen who have a foot section of the next best thing: the Boeing , which in flew a special reenactment of the first Pan Am transatlantic flight. But the historic nature of their find prompted them to reconsider. It now hangs on the wall of their office in Berkeley, California.
It affected economies and trade, politics and culture, fashion and society. Pan Am also held them to strict rules governing their appearance and behavior in ways that would never fly today, of course, but the arrival of a generation of women who traveled the world and earned decent salaries remains notable.
The air cargo display, meanwhile, shows how the advent of the altered global eating habits. Jet freighters could move perishable goods so that agricultural products were no longer geographically isolated. Those kinds of disrupters were still in the future when Steve and Hazel Eastman boarded the for their first jet flight in For a mechanic and a housewife, the opulence seemed overwhelming, their son Hal said. But it was people just like them who would most feel the effects of the revolution.
Commercial jet travel would very quickly become commonplace. The expansion in air travel during the prior few decades became an explosion, from The Hopkinses and the Eastmans felt history change that day in Continue or Give a Gift. Daily Planet. Flight Today. History of Flight. Virtual Space. By the time Boeing progressed to the 80th iteration, the design bore no resemblance to the C but, for security reasons, Boeing decided to let the jet project be known as the Work proceeded quickly after the formal start of the project on May 20, The mated a large cabin based on the dimensions of the C with the degree swept-wing design based on the wings of the B and B but considerably stiffer and incorporating a pronounced dihedral.
The wings were mounted low on the fuselage and incorporated high-speed and low-speed ailerons as well as a sophisticated flap and spoiler system. Upon the Dash 80's first flight on July 15, , the 34th anniversary of the founding of the Boeing Company Boeing clearly had a winner. Flying miles per hour faster than the de Havilland Comet and significantly larger, the new Boeing had a maximum range of more than 3, miles. A total of KCs were built. Quickly Boeing turned its attention to selling the airline industry on this new jet transport.
Clearly the industry was impressed with the capabilities of the prototype but never more so than at the Gold Cup hydroplane races held on Lake Washington in Seattle, in August During the festivities surrounding this event, Boeing had gathered many airline representatives to enjoy the competition and witness a fly past of the new Dash To the audience's intense delight and Boeing's profound shock, test pilot Alvin "Tex" Johnston barrel-rolled the Dash 80 over the lake in full view of thousands of astonished spectators.
Johnston vividly displayed the superior strength and performance of this new jet, readily convincing the airline industry to buy this new airliner. Trippe had been spending much of his time searching for a suitable jet airliner to enable his pioneering company to maintain its leadership in international air travel. Working with Boeing, Trippe overcame Boeing's resistance to widening the Dash design, now known as the , to seat six passengers in each seat row rather than five.
Trippe did so by placing an order with Boeing for 20 s but also ordering 25 of Douglas's competing DC-8, which had yet to fly but could accommodate six-abreast seating.
At Pan Am's insistence, the was made four inches wider than the Dash 80 so that it could carry passengers six-abreast. The wider fuselage developed for the became the standard design for all of Boeing's subsequent narrow-body airliners. Although the British de Havilland D. In October Pan American ushered the jet age into the United States when it opened international service with the Boeing in October National Airlines inaugurated domestic jet service two months later using a borrowed from Pan Am.
American Airlines flew the first domestic jet service with its own aircraft in January American set a new speed mark when it opened the first regularly-scheduled transcontinental jet service in There was no going back. The , in various versions, was soon flying for most of the world's leading airlines. The was built in many variations, including a short-range version called the The biggest design improvement was the switch to quieter, more fuel-efficient JT3D turbofan engines in A total of airline s were built, the last in Production of various military versions continued sporadically until Perhaps the finest still flying is owned by movie star John Travolta, a pilot and lifelong aviation buff.
The meticulously restored B, built in for the Australian airline Qantas, is still stayin' alive in its original red-and-white Qantas colors. Updated February 28, Infoplease Staff. See also:. Passenger Planes: Boeing
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