Pan Am 1969 First Passenger Flight Over North Pole, Part 1

In 1969, Pan Am operated the world's first passenger flight with inertial navigation (INS) over the North Pole. Captain Olaf Abrahamsen commanded Clipper flight 123 from London Heathrow to Seattle. Boeing 707-321C. This is part one (continued.)

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[torgman]

Cool vid. It was about six minutes long, so why is it broken down into three parts?

[tim757pilot]

You Tube would not allow me to upload it as one file, so I broke it down into 4 separate ones. It is up in one piece on Google video. You can search there.

[bradyM73]

Where did you get this video.

[tim757pilot]

Captain Abrahamsen gave me a copy in 1992.

[jfsa380]

now THIS is a flight to the north pole.  Well done Pan Am, they knew how to do it right.

[kasteman1]

I can just imagine how overwhelmingly novel and exciting this must have been back in the day. Or even today for that matter.

[hadabenz]

wow Digital readouts in the late 60s was nothing but spectacular.... Bring Back Pan Am !

[grud66]

Thanks for posting

[thibaulthalpern]

seems like it huh.

[Eric2221]

It seems that Pan Am made allot of propaganda/marketing films...more so than the others. What venues did they show these films in?

[torgman]

That's strange, consider how they got vids up to ten minutes on YT. I never uploaded a vid before, so was it due to a restriction in file size? (Don't mean to get off topic)