Friday, September 16, 2005
Historical Firsts (History of IFE)
- 1921 - First Inflight Movie - Aeromarine Airways showed HOWDY CHICAGO to its passengers as the amphibian airplane flew around Chicago.
- 1961 - First feature film exhibited on a regularly scheduled commercial airline flight (TWA B707) - MGM's BY LOVE POSSESSED, starring Lana Turner and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
- 1962 - American & Pan Am install TV monitors in first class of a Lockheed Electra Aircraft.
- 1962, AVID Airline Products develops and manufactures the first pneumatic headset used onboard the airlines and provides them to TWA.
- 1971 - Trans Com develops the 8mm film cassette. Flight attendants could now change movies inflight and add short subject programming.
- 1975 - Braniff Airways introduces Atari video games onboard flights.
- 1984 - Airfone introduces the world's first inflight telephone system on American Airlines.
- 1988 - Airvision introduces the world's first in-seat video system, using 2.7-inch LCD displays. Northwest trials the system on a B747 with positive passenger reaction.
- 1989 - American Airlines makes first fleet-wide installation (B767) of in-seat video in first class (Avicom).
- 1991 - Virgin Atlantic Airways offers seat-back video in all classes (including economy).
- 1996 - First installation of Inseat Power Outlets, on Delta Air Lines.
- 1996 -- Live television premiered on a Delta Air Lines B767 to support the Atlanta Olympics.
- 2000 - In April JetBlue introduces live (via satellite) inflight television fleetwide in all cabins.
- 2004 - Lufthansa German Airlines, on 17 May 2004, launched the Connexion By Boeing real-time, wireless-based high-speed Internet connectivity service on an A340-300 flying the Munich-to-Los Angeles route.
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Back in the 70s Air Jamaica's flight attendants (known as rare tropical birds) did inflight fashion shows on most of their flights especially "Atlantic 1" (flight 001) from Jamaica to London, and even on their 1 1/2 hour service to Miami after serving the meals and doing duty free
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