These photographs capture an iconic scene from aviation history when a Pan American World Airways Boeing 377 Stratocruiser crossing a taxiway bridge at Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in Queens, New York from between the late 1940s and early 1950s.
The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a large long-range airliner developed from the C-97 Stratofreighter military transport, itself a derivative of the B-29 Superfortress. The Stratocruiser’s first flight was on July 8, 1947. Its design was advanced for its day; its relatively innovative features included two passenger decks and a pressurized cabin. It could carry up to 100 passengers on the main deck plus 14 in the lower deck lounge; typical seating was for 63 or 84 passengers or 28 berthed and five seated passengers.
The images show the aircraft moving over one of the airport’s taxiway bridges, an engineering feature designed to facilitate traffic flow by allowing aircraft to pass over roads or other taxiways.
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