Summary

Boeing 707 is tested for commercial flight

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # D-7866
Clip SR005206_01_01.mov
Date 09/24/1956
Title Boeing 707 is tested for commercial flight
Description Title: "Paramount News - Due in '59 Jet Transport Tested For Commercial Flight" superimposed over Boeing jet in flight / WS Civil Aeronautics Administration officials posing in front of Boeing jet / CAA tag on lapel of official / CAA members going aboard / CU CAA test pilot James T. Pyle (Acting administrator), checking with pilot James Gannett / MS back view of pilots talking in cockpit / MS Back view of man signaling Boeing taxiing / LS plane taxiing for take off / MS front view of Boeing taking off / Back view of Boeing taking off / Aerial Boeing jet in flight / jet coming in for a test landing / Boeing wheels touching, then kicks up again / LS Boeing starting to zoom up again / CU Boeing flying past camera / Boeing coming down for another test approach / CU airport official in car giving instructions on radio / Boeing landing and taxiing / Angle shot pilot looking out / CAA officials disembarking / Aerial Boeing in flight
Personality James Pyle, James Gannett
Country United States
Province/State Washington
City Seattle

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