Mark Gale, PHL CEO addressing crowd along with Congressman Chaka Fattah, Sir Richard Branson, Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Virgin America CEO David Cush. Also seen are Virgin America Flight Attendants ith Pom-Poms and Cheerleaders.
A British Airways 747 loses an engine after taking off from LAX but continues to London anyway, TWA retires its last 747, Piedmont dumps their last DC-3 in 1962, and more...
A China Airlines flight survives a 30,000ft dive in 1985, though an Iberia flight suffers an all-fatal crash the same day. The Boeing 757 makes its maiden flight, Lufthansa lines up to be the first 737 customer, and more...
Aircraft industrialist Jack Northrop dies, the Space Shuttle Enterprise takes its first flight, four die in a terror attack on an El Al 707, the DC-1 is flown by TWA, Hawthorne Nevada 708 crashes, and more...