Photograph of the Hough Mover, a new piece of equipment designed specifically to load the Boeing 747 aircraft

Photograph of the Hough Mover, a new piece of equipment designed specifically to load the Boeing 747 aircraft

image from page 12 of Wing Tips, Vol. 3, Issue 12, Jan. 1970. Caption reads: "One of tractors for new Jet Age: Pan Am will use three tractors to maneurver the 747 at different airports. The largest weighs 155,000 pounds; the smallest, the Hough, shown here, weighs 108,000 pounds. the tractors are only part of the costly equipment that the changeover to the new age of commercial flying requires."

Pan American World Airways, Inc.

1970

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1970-1979