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United Airlines Boeing 707, OHare Field, Chicago, Illinois, January, 1968
At the end of a snowstorm, a United Airlines Boeing 707 is seen here at Chicago’s OHare Field, at the time the busiest airport in the world. By 1968, essentially all long-haul passenger routes were being handled by Boeing 707’s, Douglas DC-8’s, and Convair 880/990 aircraft. America’s world-wide dominance of the aircraft manufacturing industry was unchallenged. The major U.S. domestic flag carriers–American, Delta, and United had few international routes. TWA and Pan American Airways were the primary international US-based flag carriers. Nearly fifty years later both the aircraft manufacturing and airline transportation industries have consolidated, as scale has increasingly dominated the strategies of these capital-intensive businesses. In the manufacturing sector, Boeing remains the only competitor to Airbus, the British/French consortium that did not even exist in 1968. On the transportation side American, Delta, and United compete on countless international routes, and there is even talk of United merging with American, reinforcing the strategy of “bigger is better.” TWA and Pan American are long-gone. This image was captured on Kodak film with a Yashica J-5 SLR equipped with a 50mm f1.8 lens.
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