N497PA was one of the 707s bought by Boeing for the KC-135E program. Scrapped

I have always admired the nice colours of Denver based travel club Ports of Call. The company was founded in 1966, and when this photo was taken they operated an interesting fleet of ten B707s and three rare Convair 990s. Although the 707s sometimes visited Amsterdam during the mid 1980s, their 990s unfortunately never did. In 1986 the company changed its name to Skyworld Airlines, but business was declining and they were forced to shut down in 1994.

As seen from the Queen's Building using a massive totally manual 400mm lens. This aircraft was destroyed at Singapore on 4th April 1980. It was ex N371WA and AP-AWV

Reregistered ZS-SAE in 1968

D-ABUG arriving in Sydney when Qantas and European airlines dominated air travel between the two continents

N374WA takes off for Vietnam with a load of troops returning from R & R, rest and recreation in Sydney.

Crashed at Anchorage-Elmendorf on December 26, 1968

When looking out of the window in the Musée de l'Air I was delighted to see a 707 had arrived on the adjacent apron.

Rotating on take-off from runway 24. Worldways Canada acquired this 707 in 1981, and flew it into Amsterdam regularly. Two years later they switched to DC-8's and C-GRYN was sold to the Royal Australian Air Force, as A20-623. It served them faithfully until withdrawn from use 24 years later, in 2007. In 2011 it was sold to Omega Air as N623RH and stored at Brunswick, GA. It was still there in 2017.

From a severely faded and fungused slide, recovered using Photoshop. This aircraft was destroyed in a crash landing at Douala, Cameroun on May 11th 1980.

N8433 pushes back during American's unsuccessful first foray into the Australian market.

This grand old lady is polluting the skies no more. Her last flight was on 3 October 2016, one week after her retirement ceremony and one year after I caught her thrusting out of Torrejón.

Sold in 1977 as OO-YCK

One of Independent Air's duo of 707s captured during the take-off from Amsterdam's runway 24. This aircraft was purchased one year earlier (ex TWA N28727), but unfortunately crashed into the Pico Alto mountains, Azores on 8 February 1989. This accident led to the collapse of Independent Air in 1990.