Pan Am 1969 First Passenger Flight Over North Pole, Part 2

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 two (continued).

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[Rocket4Barrel]

I love these old birds, my first trip on a plane as a little kid was on a United DC-8 from Washington Natl to Chicago O'Hare in 1975.I remember seeing 707's and DC-8's coming into Washington Dulles as a kid in the 70's and 80's. Love the sound of those JT-3's. The good old days of jet travel.

[xxchinookxx]

My first commercial flight was on Aug 8 1979 when I joined the U.S.Army. It was aboard a TWA 707 from PHX to PHIL. I will always remember that flight (FLT 258) in which I listened to Herp Alpert's hit "RISE". That instrumental song seemed to go hand & hand with the view I had. Slightly forward of the right wing watching the 2 engines hanging on the wing.

[MRbombonel]

@JFAINTER88 yes it works, it's not a link lol, I can't put any link on youtube. you just add the youtube main page in front of the /watch..... I gave you so it will be youtube(dot)com/watch....

[JFAINTER88]

@MRbombonel i dont think that link works

[MRbombonel]

@JFAINTER88 evidence? I don't know if I can prove this man, but there are many many clues about this, you can watch this clip here if you're interested: /watch?v=Vfncs1S84k8&feature=r­elmfu

I don't know if all of those pics are real, some may be hoaxes but they're all pretty interesting. U can believe whatever u want and by the way about those geo scientists u speak, do you think they've gone to the poles to check it out for themselves? No, they just blindly believe what they're told

[JFAINTER88]

@MRbombonel really? yano i would love to prove that, if you could just show me the evidence... becuase right now every single geo scientist is gonna think that isnt truth.

[MRbombonel]

@JFAINTER88 they don't fly over it because then people would see a huge hole at the north and south pole and they would realize the earth is hollow

[JFAINTER88]

@lowaces the dont fly over the poles for some odd reason. it would take u 2 hours to get to china

[lowaces]

they don't even come close to the actual geographical north pole

[16924fps]

I live near Philadelphia International Airport and we'd get the jets passing over our house every day. We still do. One of the northeast to southwest approach paths starts right in the middle of Cherry Hill, NJ over the intersection of Rt. 70 & Kings Highway and the other one starts a little north of there and goes directly over the house I grew up in. I used to love listening to the planes going over.

[HPG747]

TG790, A345, HS-TLA, on 10 Nov 05, operated BKK-JFK on a track only 160 NM from the pole.

[21Laser]

Loved the navigator using the celestial positions in the film. Something that you will never see again thankfully due to INS and GPS systems.