This Day in Aviation History
May 1st to 3rd, 1976
A Pan Am Boeing 747 sets a round-the-world record.
 
Liberty Bell Express, a Boeing 747SP-21 named Clipper Liberty Bell, broke the commercial round-the-world record set by a Flying Tiger Line Boeing 707 with a new record of 46 hours, 50 seconds. The flight left New York-JFK on May 1, 1976, and returned on May 3. The flight stopped only in New Delhi and Tokyo, where a strike among the airport workers delayed it two hours. The flight beat the Flying Tiger Line’s record by 16 hours 24 minutes…..
 
Source:
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