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Gold Cup Roll
"50th Anniversary Edition" Very Low Inventory
Product Description
L/E of 10 "50th Anniversary Edition"
S/N by the Artist & Test Pilot A.M. "Tex" Johnston
Image Size: 24" x 20"
Paper Size: 28" x 25.5"
Layaway Available
Plane Type: Boeing 707 "Dash 80"
Plane Junkie is proud to announce the release of a very special one-of-a-kind commemorative lithograph, revisiting an historic edition first produced in June 1990. "Gold Cup Roll" by Mike Machat depicts the famous aerobatic maneuver flown by Boeing Chief Test Pilot "Tex" Johnston at the famed Seattle Sea Fair Races in August 1955. Sold out since 1991, this landmark aviation art print is being made available once again to connoisseur collectors by the release of ten remaining printers proofs held in climate-controlled storage since the print was first created.
Originally signed in Seattle by A. M. "Tex" Johnston and the artist, these ten special sheets are now numbered as the Golden Anniversary Special Edition commemorating fifty years since the Boeing 707's introduction into airline service on October 26, 1958. Custom hand-drawn remarques of the 707 will be made available to collectors for an additional charge.
The 50th Anniversary Event
When commercial aviation first began in the early Twentieth Century, the thought of an airline passenger purchasing a ticket and boarding a jet-powered airliner to fly to some exotic far-off locale at nearly 600 miles-per-hour would have been pure science fiction. By World War II, commercial airliners had evolved to the point where passengers could fly coast-to-coast across the United States, but the jet age loomed on the horizon. On the evening of October 26, 1958, a Pan American World Airways' Boeing 707 departed New York's Idlewild Airport with 120 passengers to inaugurate the first scheduled jet airline service from New York to Paris, and the world figuratively shrank in half in an instant.
The sleek blue-and-white jetliner duplicated Charles Lindbergh's epic thirty-three-and-a-half hour solo flight of 1927, flying from Long Island to Le Bourget Field in only six hours! From that point on, airline passengers routinely traveled around the world in luxury, dining on gourmet cuisine while flying at 585 miles-per-hour and altitudes of up to 37,000 feet - a flight regime once reserved for record-breaking military test pilots little more than a decade earlier. In this day and age of 500-passenger jumbo jets flying from California to Australia nonstop, it's easy to forget that those first 707s couldn't make the westbound transatlantic flights without stopping in Gander, Newfoundland to refuel!
The original painting of "Gold Cup Roll" can be seen in the Smithsonian by the Dash-80 along with all the support documentation, that helped to make this image the historical document that it's become.
Listen to "Tex" as he explains the Manuever!
The Boeing 707 Aircraft
It was most fitting that the commercial jet age was inaugurated by an airliner of Pan American World Airways. The company's Chairman and guiding force was the visionary Juan Trippe who years earlier had ushered in the grand flying boat Clippers that traveled the Pacific. It was Trippe who pioneered the commercial jet age in the early-1950s by ordering the Boeing 707 which revolutionized global air travel when it entered airline service in 1958. In the mid-1960s, Trippe once again showed his determination to advance commercial air travel when he ordered the first Boeing 747 Jumbo Jets.
In its day, the Boeing 707 represented the future of aviation. With its 131-ft. wingspan and 145-ft. length, the jetliner could carry 140 passengers on routes of up to 3,000 miles, and just one of its 13,500-lb.-thrust Pratt & Whitney JT3 turbojets produced more power than all four engines combined on any of the great propliners that preceded it. Weighing 250,000 pounds at takeoff, the 707-120 climbed at nearly 6,000 feet-per-minute, and brought jet age performance to the world. Larger improved models with fanjet engines carried up to 175 passengers, and flew 4,000 miles nonstop. Replaced by more modern airliners, the 707 was finally retired from mainline service in the late-1980s, although advanced military versions are still flying worldwide with the U.S. Air Force.
PLANE JUNKIE - Gold Cup Roll by Mike Machat (Boeing 707 "Dash 80")
S/N by the Artist & Test Pilot A.M. "Tex" Johnston
Image Size: 24" x 20"
Paper Size: 28" x 25.5"
Layaway Available
Plane Type: Boeing 707 "Dash 80"
Plane Junkie is proud to announce the release of a very special one-of-a-kind commemorative lithograph, revisiting an historic edition first produced in June 1990. "Gold Cup Roll" by Mike Machat depicts the famous aerobatic maneuver flown by Boeing Chief Test Pilot "Tex" Johnston at the famed Seattle Sea Fair Races in August 1955. Sold out since 1991, this landmark aviation art print is being made available once again to connoisseur collectors by the release of ten remaining printers proofs held in climate-controlled storage since the print was first created.
Originally signed in Seattle by A. M. "Tex" Johnston and the artist, these ten special sheets are now numbered as the Golden Anniversary Special Edition commemorating fifty years since the Boeing 707's introduction into airline service on October 26, 1958. Custom hand-drawn remarques of the 707 will be made available to collectors for an additional charge.
The 50th Anniversary Event
When commercial aviation first began in the early Twentieth Century, the thought of an airline passenger purchasing a ticket and boarding a jet-powered airliner to fly to some exotic far-off locale at nearly 600 miles-per-hour would have been pure science fiction. By World War II, commercial airliners had evolved to the point where passengers could fly coast-to-coast across the United States, but the jet age loomed on the horizon. On the evening of October 26, 1958, a Pan American World Airways' Boeing 707 departed New York's Idlewild Airport with 120 passengers to inaugurate the first scheduled jet airline service from New York to Paris, and the world figuratively shrank in half in an instant.
The sleek blue-and-white jetliner duplicated Charles Lindbergh's epic thirty-three-and-a-half hour solo flight of 1927, flying from Long Island to Le Bourget Field in only six hours! From that point on, airline passengers routinely traveled around the world in luxury, dining on gourmet cuisine while flying at 585 miles-per-hour and altitudes of up to 37,000 feet - a flight regime once reserved for record-breaking military test pilots little more than a decade earlier. In this day and age of 500-passenger jumbo jets flying from California to Australia nonstop, it's easy to forget that those first 707s couldn't make the westbound transatlantic flights without stopping in Gander, Newfoundland to refuel!
The original painting of "Gold Cup Roll" can be seen in the Smithsonian by the Dash-80 along with all the support documentation, that helped to make this image the historical document that it's become.
The Boeing 707 Aircraft
It was most fitting that the commercial jet age was inaugurated by an airliner of Pan American World Airways. The company's Chairman and guiding force was the visionary Juan Trippe who years earlier had ushered in the grand flying boat Clippers that traveled the Pacific. It was Trippe who pioneered the commercial jet age in the early-1950s by ordering the Boeing 707 which revolutionized global air travel when it entered airline service in 1958. In the mid-1960s, Trippe once again showed his determination to advance commercial air travel when he ordered the first Boeing 747 Jumbo Jets.
In its day, the Boeing 707 represented the future of aviation. With its 131-ft. wingspan and 145-ft. length, the jetliner could carry 140 passengers on routes of up to 3,000 miles, and just one of its 13,500-lb.-thrust Pratt & Whitney JT3 turbojets produced more power than all four engines combined on any of the great propliners that preceded it. Weighing 250,000 pounds at takeoff, the 707-120 climbed at nearly 6,000 feet-per-minute, and brought jet age performance to the world. Larger improved models with fanjet engines carried up to 175 passengers, and flew 4,000 miles nonstop. Replaced by more modern airliners, the 707 was finally retired from mainline service in the late-1980s, although advanced military versions are still flying worldwide with the U.S. Air Force.
PLANE JUNKIE - Gold Cup Roll by Mike Machat (Boeing 707 "Dash 80")
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