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The Boeing 747, which was first flown in 1969 and launched into service in 1970 by Pan American World Airways, revolutionized long-distance commercial air travel and set a completely new standard in airliner design, the “widebody” or “jumbojet.” Not to be left behind in the widebody market, aircraft manufacturers McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed Aircraft followed with their own widebody airliners, the DC-10 and L-1011 TriStar. Our newest exhibition “Widebody: The Launch of the Jumbojets in the Early 1970s” presents promotional objects and images from airlines that operated these three first widebody jetliners introduced in the early 1970s. See “Widebody: The Launch of the Jumbojets in the Early 1970s” in on display, pre-security, is on the Aviation Museum and Library. http://bit.ly/WidebodyAV This image was posted on September 20, 2019.

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Lockheed (1926 to ..)
This company is from the United States