A striking seasonal phenomenon is unfolding off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, as cold, nutrient-rich waters rise to the ...

With the tragic accident of Air India Flight 171 at Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025, the focus has fallen on safety and ...

Pan Am declared bankruptcy following stresses caused by the 1973 oil crisis, and the lawsuits that followed the bombing of ...

This could have been the case with the Air New Zealand flight which crashed on Mt Erebus. It was only not like that because it was an 'international' flight where the origin and destination airports ...

Pan Am became the first airline to introduce Boeing 707 into commercial aviation. Almost every major airline around the world placed orders for Boeing 707 eventually carrying millions of passengers.

Boeing 707-120 pictured at the Pan Am "Worldport." Photo: Jon Proctor, used with permission Retirement Despite its retirement, PA reintroduced the 707 for a commemorative flight to mark the 25th ...

In October 1955, Boeing secured an order for twenty 707s from Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), which was to become the ...

In front of mammoth Hangar 10 at Washington’s National Airport last week, the First Lady of the U.S. smashed a bottle of water from the seven seas on the fuselage of a Pan American Boeing 707 ...

Pan Am helped revolutionize the airline industry in the late 1950s by acquiring Boeing 707 and 747 aircraft and guiding air travel into the Jet Age, with passengers able to fly higher, faster and ...

Two months after the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 with Pan Am on October 26, 1958, National Airlines became the first U.S. carrier to operate domestic flights using the Boeing 707 ...

First Lady Eisenhower christens the Pan Am 707. Photo: Pan Am Historical Foundation Boeing vs. Douglas Pan Am’s Chairman Juan Trippe had placed an order for 20 707s, along with 25 of the rival Douglas ...