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Trident Cars Ltd was a British car manufacturer based originally in Woodbridge, then in Ipswich, Suffolk between 1966 and 1974. [1] The company produced a small series of sports cars with different engines from 1967 to 1977 and was later re-established in 1999.
Modern San Francisco airport diagram showing runway layout (in 1971 runway 28R was more than 2,000 feet (610 m) shorter) [5] Flight 845's crew had planned and calculated its takeoff for runway 28L but discovered only after pushback that this runway had been closed hours earlier for maintenance, [6] and that the first 1,000 feet (300 m) of runway 01R, the preferential runway at that time, [a ...
N747PA was completed on February 28, 1969. Originally registered as N732PA, it was re-registered to N747PA early on. The aircraft was used by Boeing for flight testing before being delivered to Pan Am, which immediately sent it out on an extensive promotional tour across the United States and the rest of the world to showcase the 747 to the public.
Pan Am Flight 812 (PA812), operated by a Pan Am Boeing 707-321B registered N446PA and named Clipper Climax, was a scheduled international flight from Hong Kong to Los Angeles, California, with intermediate stops at Denpasar, Sydney, Nadi, and Honolulu. The airplane briefly appeared in the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie in 1971. [1]
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Some Clippers were used on the Hawaii to California routes as they shipped mainly food stocks to California. In 1853 the clipper Flying Cloud sailed from New York City and made San Francisco around Cape Horn in 89 days, 8 hours; a record that stood 136 years until 1989 when the breakthrough-designed sailboat Thursday's Child [54] completed the ...
Pan Am Flight 816 was an international flight from Auckland, New Zealand, to San Francisco, California, via Tahiti, French Polynesia, and Los Angeles, California.It was operated by a Pan Am Boeing 707-321B bearing the registration N417PA and named Clipper Winged Racer. [1]