• Transition Aircraft: The Turboprops
• The First Generation of Jet Airliners
• Coast to Coast by Jet
• Air Travel in a Changing America
• Social Change in the Airline Industry
• The Era of Wide-Body Airliners
• Boeing 747 - 151
• Deregulation: A Watershed Event
• New and Expanding Airlines
• Air Express
• From Stewardess to Flight Attendant
• Survival of the Fittest
  • The Death of Eastern Airlines
• Aviation Technology
  • NASA and The Jet Age
  • Computer Technology
  • The Computer Revolution in the Cockpit
• Air Traffic Control Today
• Air Travel and Safety
• Airline Security
• The Flying Experience Today

Pratt & Whitney JT3
1/4th scale

The JT3 revolutionized air transportation when it entered service on the Boeing 707 in 1958. The new turbojet engine was a commercial version of the U.S. Air Force's J53, introduced in 1950.
Gift of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division, United Technologies Corporation.

Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum

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