First Commercial plane over the North Pole - come along!

Take a ride over the north pole with me on the inaugural Newark-Hong Kong flight 99 on Continental Airlines March 1, 2001.  It was the first twin engine commercial plane ever to fly over the pole.  On board were dignitaries from China and Russia, whose air space we flew over, and some scenes from Hong Kong itself, including our ride on the famous star ferry, drinks at the Regent at sunset, a visit to the bird auction (this was before the bird flu, as many Chinese keep birds and carried them around in cages)

At the time, it was the longest non-stop in the world at over 8,000 statue miles and took us 15 hours and 43 minutes.

Come along on this historic event!

Kevin B

 Northwest flight 4 SEA-JFK 747-100 (note the doors that open on the cowling at higher RPM's

 United DC-8 51 parked at LAS

 TWA Boeing 707 departing London Heathrow

 Same flights approaching BOS

 United 218 departing LAS for ORD and then EWR - Dinner to Dinner in First Class!

 United 992 DC8-61 ORD-HNL May of 1975

 United 218 in flight out of ORD

 National DC-10 near Lake Mead

National flight 474 out of LAS headed for IAH