National Airlines
Boeing 747-135
N77773 (c/n 19919)
This evocative shot by Ray Petit taken
at Heathrow in May of 1974 displays this huge machine to
advantage as it rumbled towards the
active on its return journey to Miami, filled no doubt, with UK
visitors to
Disneyworld. National only acquired two 747s (N77772 was
the other
one) and they
were added to the fleet when the
London service was
commenced in 1970. Both 747s were sold
to Northwest in 1976, this one
becoming N621US.