Friday, June 14, 2013
Boeing 747 in Monterey, 1970
People watch as a Pan Am Boeing 747
cruises past the Monterey Peninsula Airport in December of 1970. The Boeing 747 was introduced to
commercial flight in January of 1970.
The Boeing 747 is a wide-body commercial airliner and cargo transport
aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of
the Skies. It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft and was the first
wide-body ever produced. Manufactured by Boeing's Commercial Airplane unit in
the United States, the original version of the 747 was two and a half times the
size of the Boeing 707. (Monterey
County Herald Archives)
No mention of why the plane was here in the first place. A friend once told me that a 747 came to Monterey once to test whether or not the airport could safely handle this huge plane in an emergency. That's probably what this was.
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