Back in 1975 my university sponsored a 3 week trip to the UK for 10 of us to study UK history.

As a history major I knew the professor who lead the trip and he asked which airline we should fly, appearently the costs were about the same for all SEA-LHR flights.
I suggested Pan Am…so that’s who our group flew on.

A nice trip in a fairly new 747..sadly I didn’t get the N number but the plane might have been Clipper Ocean Rover.

On the way home we were over the northern wilds of Canada…miless of nothing. The captain came to make a tour of the cabin and I spoke with him for a moment.
He was about to retire..he started off as a crewmember (second officer?) on the Boeing flying boats.
Rarely do we get a chance to meet someone who spans that much aviation history.
Needless to say, I was very impressed.

My first jet flight was in the 707-320 Clipper Isabella from Johnson AB, Japan to SFO (via Honolulu) in May 1963. It was a very different trip in terms of length and weather from our DC-6 flight to Japan a few years before. That required a fuel stop on Wake Island.