1965 – 1969
The jet age…
Flying Tigers met the challenge of the jet age in 1965 with Boeing 707-349C intercontinental jets. Operated on Transpacific military contract routes, the Boeing 707s carried 72,000 pounds of freight at 550 miles per hour over a 3,000 mile range. With Boeing 707s supplemented by Canadair CL-44s, Flying Tiger Line became again, in a period of military emergency, the largest carrier of cargo on the Pacific. An average day saw as many as four Tiger flights jetting across the Pacific between Vietnam and the United States.