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Posted by Jack Whitevale
on 8/29/2008, 5:41 pm
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I'm an admirer of the great Boeing 747,and I have flown many miles with a few Pan American jets in my day,as a businessman to and from Europe.Names like "Clipper Bostonian,Clipper Kit Carson,and Clipper Red Jacket",all ring a bell,because they are just a few of the ones I have been on.I remember,however,that these planes all had no more than three upper deck windows on either side of the fuselage,and later on,as development progressed,there were multiple windows.My question is,were the three upper deck windows surrounded by solid alminium sheeting,or did some of these early jets have multiple holes in the upper deck already,yet closed with aluminium sheeting,just in case the customer would want multiple windows there later?I wonder about this because I saw some planes (non Pan Am)at airports during the 70s,which had three windows at one time,and about nine or ten the next.Thanks for your help.
Jack Whitevale,Ex-passenger.
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