High Altitude Pressurized Aircraft
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Description:
Dignitaries, press and passengers about to board a Pan American World Airways' Douglas DC6B airplane for the inaugural flight of a high altitude pressurized aircraft to Alaska, January 20,1954, Boeing Field, Seattle Washington. The crew was: Captain Ralph Savory, Regional Chief Pilot; Captain Jack Rush; Captain Gordon Langstn; Captain Ben Harrell; Flight Engineers, Lew Todd and John Sheppard; Pursers, Charles Pilgrim, Mary Ellen Runge, and George Bondorf.
Photo Collection:
Captain Ralph W. Savory Collection
Photo ID:
UAF-1993-28-5
University of Alaska Fairbanks Archives