Sure, celebrities looked cool as hell strutting through airports in the 1970s, emanating pure style and class. But what about when they boarded the plane? In these photographs from the same decade—when air travel wasn't the dehumanising nightmare it is today—movie stars and musicians relax, party, and pose on their private jets. This is flight done right.
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Elton John travels on his 1974 U.S. tour on a private jet complete with a piano bar.
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Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards during the Rolling Stones' 1975 Tour of the Americas.
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B.B. King plays his hollowbody guitar (better known as Lucille) for a woman in Japan in 1970.
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Goldie Hawn heads to France to film There's a Girl in My Soup in 1970.
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Queen Elizabeth and Princess Anne leave from Heathrow Airport in London for a two-month trip to Australia and New Zealand in 1970.
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KISS salutes with military officers in 1975.
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Keith Richards and Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones chat on their plane while on tour in 1975.
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President Gerald R. Ford and his wife Betty Ford share a moment during a flight en route to Oman in 1979.
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Eric Clapton holds an audio cassette tape on a private jet in 1978.
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Roger Moore plays an electric keyboard onboard a private jet in 1975.
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Elizabeth Taylor on her personal plane in the '70s.
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Cher takes a flight to Los Angeles with Chastity (now Chaz) Bono in 1975.
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Ronnie Wood smokes a cigarette while onboard a plane during the Rod Stewart and the Faces' American tour in 1975.
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Hugh Hefner and his girlfriend Barbi Benton aboard Hefner's private jet, "The Big Bunny," in 1970.
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Rod Stewart on a plane during the Faces' tour in America in 1975.
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Frank Zappa sits in the cockpit of an airplane in Detroit in 1976.
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Elton John in bed on board a private jet in 1975.
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Ronald and Nancy Reagan en route to an American Film Institute event in 1974.
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John Travolta shows off his private jet for an interview with David Frost in 1978.
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Steven Tyler aboard a plane before an Aerosmith show in Michigan in 1976.