Originally Posted by
treadigraph
Recollect seeing Pan Am 747s climbing out of Heathrow on a Dover departure, as I recall it was Clipper 1 which went eastbound around the world and Clipper 2 did the same westbound.
A slight correction: PA1 was the westbound, and all Pan Am westbounds used odd numbers, e.g. PA101 (LHR-JFK) , PA73 (FRA-JFK). Clipper 2 was the eastbound. Here is a sample page from a 1978 timetable:
https://jpbtransconsulting.com/2013/...imetable-0002/