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Flight 50 screen title.

Documentary (1977)

Production:
Pan American World Airways

Also from this series:
Pan Am's other series

Pan Am's short film about the 50th anniversary of the company with a record-setting flight Flight 50 round the world over the North and South Poles, celebrated on October 28-30 1977.

Douglas World Cruiser Chicago

No.2 Chicago was one of the 2 DWCs (over 4) who achieved first aerial circumnavigation of the world in 1924.
Registration 25-1230, c/n 146. Configuration with floats.
Same aircraft seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

Reg.25-1230 Douglas World Cruiser No.2 Chicago of the US Army Air Service.

Lockheed Vega 5C

Registration NR105W c/n 122 built in 1929.Nicknamed Winnie Mae. This specially modified 5C Vega set the record in 1931 for a flight around the world, taking 8 days in the hands of Wiley H. Post and Harold Gatty. Post repeated the feat solo, taking only 7 days in July 1933. In March 1935, Post flew this Vega high enough from Burbank to Cleveland to be operating in the jetstream.
Same aircraft seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Reg.NR105W Lockheed Vega 5C Winnie Mae.

Lockheed C-69 Constellation

Reference to the Pan Am's first round-the-world scheduled flight in June 1947. The aircraft presented is actually a military variant Lockheed C-69 Constellation of the USAF.

Lockheed C-69 Constellation of the USAF.

Boeing 747SP-21

One of the 11 aircraft of the type ordered by PAN AM, plus 1 other from Braniff. Operated from 1976 to 1986. Only 45 aircraft produced.

Boeing 747SP-21 of PAN AM-Pan American World Airways.

Liberty Bell Express

New-York, Delhi, Tokyo, New-York (May 1-3, 1976)

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Boeing 747SP-21

Registration N531PA, c/n 21023/268. First flight in August 1975 with Boeing colours, registered N247SP. Delivered to PAN AM in May 1976 as N531PA, named Clipper Liberty Bell, renamed later Clipper Freedom. Sold to United Airlines in February 1986, registered N141UA. Stored in February 1995 at Harry Reid International,Las Vegas (KLAS/LAS). Broken up in 1995 at Andamooka, Australia (YAMK/ADO).
This airplane broke the commercial round-the-world records set by a Flying Tiger Line Boeing 707 with a new record of 46 hours, 50 seconds. The flight left New York-JFK on May 1, 1976, and returned on May 3. The flight stopped only in New Delhi and Tokyo, where a strike among the airport workers delayed it two hours. The flight beat the Flying Tiger Line's record by 16 hours 24 minutes.