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Airways Map Small Notebook

The Airways Map Small Notebook cover design is inspired by a vintage aviation map. A real treasure for aviation enthusiasts, this small notebook cover fits perfectly around the small cahier notebook made by world renowned stationer Moleskine. Realized by designer Jamila Starwater Tazewell this amazing notebook cover lends style and grace to your plain old notebook. Enjoy taking and leaving notes with this practical and useful artifact. Measures 5 5/8" x 3 5/8" when closed. Comes filled with one Moleskine Cahier notebook.

Iraqi Airways was founded in 1945. The first planes used were Dragon Rapids. For the next fiscal decade, until 1955, these planes were alternated with Vickers Viscounts. By 1955, however, the Viscounts took over all of Iraqi Airways' services.
The 1960s arrived, and so did the jet age. Iraqi Airways was quick to modernize, buying Russian built Tupolev TU-124 planes as well as British built Tridents. These jets allowed Iraqi Airways to increase service across the Middle East, to Africa and Europe. During that time, cargo airplanes such as the Il-76 arrived.
During the 1970s, Iraqi Airways was granted a route to JFK International airport in New York, and because of that, it needed a bigger jet, so it went to (then) Seattle based Boeing and bought 707 jets. Soon after, the Boeing 747 also arrived.
Iraqi Airways kept flying during the 1980s to most cities where it had established routes to. The Iraq-Iran war did little to undermine the airline's activities. In what could be considered by some to be an ironic twist to the trend, in 1986, a Boeing 737 of Iraqi Airways, flying from Baghdad to Jordan, was attacked by terrorists. Although the plane tried to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, the terrorists threw a bomb into the plane's cockpit, and its destruction caused the plane to crash resulting in the deaths of 61 of the 93 people on board . Iraqi Airways has, to date, had ten air tragedies.
Since Iraq's invasion in 1991 of Kuwait, Iraqi Airways has been grounded by the United Nations’ sanctions against Iraq. Before the invasion started, Iraqi Airways had 17 jets, all of which were moved to secret locations, mainly in Jordan.
Through that ordeal, many of the airline’s 800 employees stayed faithful, and their mechanics supposedly even owned Iraq's only jet engine, where they would practice in hopes the airline would someday need their services as much as it once did.
Because Iraqi Airways was allowed to fly domestically, it continued service to smaller cities, such as Basra. However, domestic flights became a rarity too, because of the No-Fly Zone imposed by the United States and United Kingdom over Iraqi skies. On occasions, Iraqi Airways would also fly pilgrims to Saudi Arabian religious cities during the '90s.

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Jet Airways is a major Indian airline based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is India's largest airline and the market leader in the domestic sector. It operates over 400 flights daily to 67 destinations worldwide. Its main hub is Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.

The Airbus A330-200 is a shortened but longer-range stablemate of the A330-300, entering service in 1998, four years after the -300. Launched in 1995, when sales for the -300 were flagging, it was developed to compete with the Boeing 767-300ER. The A330-200 is ten fuselage frames shorter than the original A330-300, with a length of 58.82 m (193 ft 0 in). To compensate for the smaller moment arm of the shorter fuselage, the -200's vertical stabiliser's height was increased by 104 cm (3 ft 5 in) over that of the A330-300. The -200's wing was also modified.

If you are a fan or collector of Pan American World Airways items, this movie needs to be in your collection. This is a very interesting look at the behind the scenes activities on a 1959 Boeing 707 flight from Idyllwild airport to Paris. We follow the arrival of the pilot and maintenance chief as they prepare jet clipper N709PA as flight 116. On December 8, 1963 this aircraft was in a holding pattern awaiting an instrument approach to the Philadelphia International Airport when it was struck by lightning. Immediately thereafter, the aircraft was observed to be on fire. A large portion of the left wing separated in flight and the aircraft crashed in flames approximately ten nautical miles southwest of the New Castle, Delaware VOR. All persons aboard, 73 passengers and eight crew members, perished in the crash and the aircraft was destroyed. Flight 116 has to be checked out and takeoff for Paris in three hours and we follow the process as the 707 is made ready. It is interesting to see how the planes were inspected prior to flight and then taxied into position at the gate. Captain Don Michaels prepares for the flight to Paris. He reviews the weather and then sits down with the entire flight crew and tests them on procedures. We get to meet the stewardess, navigator, flight engineer and copilot. Jet clipper N709PA, N710PA, N711PA and Clipper Tradewind are featured in the film. The food on the flight is delivered to the plane in a truck with a sign that says "Clipper Cuisine by Maxim's of Paris." The menu includes pheasant, roast beef, lobster and champagne The cabin door to the cabin is closed and four minutes latter they are in the air. Nice exterior shots of the 707 taxing by. As the plane becomes airborne you get to see an aerial view of Idyllwild airport. A very nice film on the overview of the Boeing 707, jet travel in the late 1950s and Pan American World Airways operations.