The aircraft’s four 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney radial engines enabled the Stratocruiser, as its name asserted, to cruise in the stratosphere at over 300 miles per hour. With a range of just over 4,000 miles, the B-377 was ideally suited for transoceanic routes. #WingWednesdayThis tweet was posted on May 12, 2021.
The first wide-body jumbo-jet to be introduced, the Boeing 747 revolutionized long-distance, transoceanic commercial aviation and set the standard for all other wide-body designs that followed. #WingWednesdayThis tweet was posted on August 18, 2021.
This 1950s Pan American World Airways poster features a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser flying above Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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With its long range and capacity of up to eighty-six passengers, the DC-4 was crucial to advancing trans-ocean commercial aviation in the immediate postwar era. #AviationEvolutionsThis tweet was posted on December 26, 2018.
With its long range and capacity of up to eighty-six passengers, the DC-4 was crucial to advancing trans-ocean commercial aviation in the immediate postwar era. #WingWednesday#AvGeekThis tweet was posted on April 07, 2021.