In the mid 90’s my wife’s grandmother gave me a PanAm bag as I gift when I received my A&P license. This bag has everything in it. A small coffee pot & cup, a small iron, silver wear and condiments…till this day I still have it.

Blimey, they even showed a war criminal on one!

Amazing aircraft for the era but I will deliberate avoid them now (maybe its a anti Boeing thing...though dont mind a 777 despite being less comfie cabin). Size and range of little consequence these days. In fact, nothing worse than checking in or boarding with 500 other people. BTW even back in the day probably the 707 made the biggest impact to commercial air travel.

PAN AM, TWA and Panair of Brazil(Pan Am subsidiaries), in 1960's ...classy style😢

Always an interesting tour back in time! This airplane, N203PA, is special to me; in 1986, it would be my very last flight with Pan Am. If my memory is correct, brushed aluminum Pan Am meatball logos were installed on the dark blue (carpeted) areas of the bulkheads.

My only 747 flights were to and from Japan back in the early 90's, 11 hours non-stop. What a ride!

My hearts desire was to be a stewardess. Was mid 70's. Applied but not hired unfortunately. Werent hiring at time but then love happened and game over. Still to this day wish could have been.,I was 18 and now 67. Loved the Pan Am show. They ned to continue it!

I think it's name the Pan Am tv series was revived. There is so much great material that can be used.

A history of PanAm taught with the most perfect British accent: wonderful

Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden. Nice.

THEM; We where not sex objects like others ALSO THEM; Why would someone in rome stop me from having someone in france? We went on nice datessss

Thank you Mr. Satton for designing the jumbo 747 Thank you BOEING for all the planes you design including the B-29 that help us get out of the war.

So pleased to see Pan Am using one of their 747-SP aircraft for this awesome flight! The great looking SP flew faster, higher and further than any 747 variant… and I’m not sure any have been preserved.

Incredibly sad to lose this historic airline.

You know the American carriers that didn’t replace the 747-400 with the new ones I have one word for you. TRAITOR!!! if they are soooo worried about the fuel consumption then charge a fuel surcharge, people will pay it. Just how fuel efficient is flying 4-6 jets to do what this one can do in 1 trip

"Say hello to a brand new world, say hello to Pan Am!!" I still remember those old school commercials, the good old days!☺️☺️

What is not said is the freight capacity, which gives the public a standard of living unimaginable 100 years earlier.

A large number of untruths half truths MrsThatcher said she had blood on her hands and the civil service were complicit. Branson knew they would try it on t 🎉Freddie told him to sue in the American courts as the british one were puppets of the civil service and it's puppets.

This is the best anime of all time.

Man this anime goes hard.

Actually, I am the smoker in the red jacket in this training video. We made quite a few of these in the mock up in the International Stewardess College which is still on 36th Street in Miami (now called the Flight Academy housing simulators) where I was a classroom trainer for a number of years. Pan Am gave us the world.

brings back memories

The B-17 was the first hump that Boeing made .

Recuerdo los cuadernillos ilustrados de papel amarillo de a bordo qué sólo PanAm y Lufthansa tenían 🙃

I helped build the Everett plant where they were made. Specifically, did architectural engineering on the paint hangar. It was shaped like the plane.

747s are awesome, but IMHO the 707 was THE "game changer". It was the plane that established cheap worldwide air travel to the masses, not the 747. By the time the 747 went into service, jets were absolutely dominant in air travel. The 747 was "bigger", but other than that, not exactly a game changer. First time I rode one, in 73, I didn't even know it would be my plane until I was already boarding. It was bigger...

Wow

Rkc aa greatPAA/ 747Skyplane special .. fun

The One. The Only. The Chosen Instrumen. America's Aviation Treasure to World Civil Aviation. The Histotric Airline that Flew to all Six Continents. (With the ocassional flight to Antartica. Making that 7.) Flew Presidents Royalty and Celebrities. The Primogeniture legacy to AIR FORCE ONE. CLASS. STYLE PANACHE.....tHE WORLD'S MOST EXPERIENCED AIRLINE. THE BEST.

Thanks guy!

Love the Jumbo travelled a lot in the 80s and 90s loved the big top version, landing in Ki Tak ( Hong Kong) many times always a heart stopping few minutes lol . ❤ it was the plane that enabled ordinary people afford to see the world. Best ever passenger plane IMO ! I still can’t believe it is 50. it held its own in bad turbulence over the Himalayas and Burma too, It will always be my favorite. I feel these were the golden years of Boeing, the designs in that era were amazing. The Concord was for the rich most people could not ever afford to fly in it, the 747 was for the masses, you never felt claustrophobic on it for some reason. Even the seats felt bigger, maybe I was slimmer 😂😂❤❤❤❤❤

Fantastic ! Thank you for this !

Too bad the only thing that matters is profit. Which PA did up until the 1970’s.

Thanks to belonged PAN AM!

Pan Am ❤

There is nothing about the 747 development. We at Northrop built the fuselage components in Hawthorne, California, Los Angeles County. Boeing didn't have the money to design and create the tooling for the 747. We did that for the body of the fuselage. This advantage to Boeing became an issue after the 747 was a success. Boeing didn't like sharing the profits and worse didn't like sharing strategic plans. This led to Boeing not wanting to invest in evolving the 747. Thus by the 1990s it was apparent that Boeing would develop a completely new aircraft so they could cut Northrop out. Q

Didn't like the bleeping out of words, pathetic!

Freddy Laker seemed like Richard Branson…however, he was NOT in business before Southwest…Southwest began flights in 1971

What was weirdest about the 747 is it’s the only major airliner that has passenger seating (the first 4-6 rows on the lower deck) that is further forward in the fuselage than the flight deck

As they used to say....."The World's Most Experienced Airline." Pan Am, where you been, baby?! 🌍🌎🌏🛫🌐💺✈️

Second aircraft type that I ever went on when I was very young in 1973.The first was a British Midland Vickers Viscount from Teeside Airport in northern England to London Heathrow to connect with a South African Airways 747 to Johannesburg Jan Smuts.

U guys returning in 2025? I can’t wait!!

I took my first ever flight on a 747,the first of over hundreds,she truly is the Queen of the Skies. The Airbus A380 is a distant second and is another amazing aircraft. As a pilot,they both have given me endless hours of timeless joy

It's just the most beautiful aircraft ever built 🇺🇸

I came home from Frankfurt in 1996 on a classic 400 and it was a very very good flight home. The flight crew were so relaxed and calm it was very visible to everyone. Thank you Lufthansa.

The most breath taking and awe inspiring aircraft I've worked in.

Nothing replace the queen of the skies!

Thanks Linda !!!🎉

I've never flown on an Airbus A380, and I understand the scope and capability of this aircraft. However, for me, it will never displace the 747's appeal and special place in aviation history. I've only flown on classic 747's, models 100 and 200 on both Air Canada and Pan Am.

I finally got my first ride in a 747 in June 2003. It was a military charter flight from Topeka, KS to Kuwait with a stop in Amsterdam. Being it was a military charter with just the Army National Guard Signal Battalion on board AND a flight crew of USAF Reserve or Retired, the crew allowed us access to the cockpit. Also something you won't see on a regular flight, we were all carrying our weapons into the cabin. No ammunition though. That would come in Kuwait. Late at night I couldn't sleep. So when most were asleep, I went up to the cockpit. I spent over an hour mostly sitting at the flight engineer station. All the gauges and switches! I am a bit knowledgeable with airplanes. I could understand what most of the dials were telling me. Now to manage everything....Forget about it! The trip was a bit surreal. We enjoyed a couple of movies. When the crew switched on the navigation screen and we were over Saudi airspace, our mission suddenly became very real. We were not tourists. We were Soldiers and Kuwait was our last stop before Iraq and war. The plane was a 747-200. Probably getting up in age. Still, a great memory before heading off to war. Thanks to all that trip on our flight crew for giving all of us a last bit of "civilian" relaxation.