Up, Up, and Gone!: My Forty-Seven Years in the Airline Industry-From 707S to 787S - Hardcover

by James Jim Farrell (Author)

From meeting Charles Lindbergh at Pan Am back in the '60s up till the megamerger of United Airlines with Continental Airlines in the mid-2000s, Jim has seen the rapid growth of the airline industry firsthand. From the jet era inception with the Boeing 707, to the historic introduction of the 747, which he witnessed himself, right up to the 787 introduced by United, he has been on a wild roller coaster ride that took him from Pan Am to Eastern Airlines to American Airlines to Continental and finally to United. It's a ride he hopes will capture the reader's interest and take them to exciting places never witnessed before.