Boeing 747SP / Pan Am747SP Pan Am airplane model. The SP suffix in 747SP stands for Special Performance, and points to the ultra long range abilities of this 747 variant that preceded the current 747 400 by 15 years. The 747SP's range is best illustrated by the spate of long range distance records it set in the mid 1970s. The most prominent of those was the delivery flight of a South African Airways SP, which over March 23 24 1976 flew nonstop with 50 passengers from

had a transcontinental range

Delighting your senses

The Convair's 880 and 990 program proved an extremely costly venture for the company

8 inches and a length of 25 feet

along with upgraded avionics and utility systems

a number of German aircraft manufacturing companies were experimenting with planes that could fulfill these dive bomb attacks

Beech T-1A Jayhawk airplane model

a dining salon that could be transformed into a lounge

"The Air Apaches" were widely known in the Southwest Pacific theatre

and locate enemy radars then direct weapons that will ensure destruction or suppression of the radars

heaviest and most powerful aircraft in the world

as a day-night interceptor