The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental airliner, the company's newest and largest passenger plane, takes off for its first test flight at Paine Field Airport March 20, 2011 in Everett, Washington. The new plane features quieter, more fuel efficient engines, more seating and a redesigned interior.

Syrian President Bashar Al Assad watches as Pope John Paul II boards his plane at Damascus airport May 8, 2001 at the end of the Pontiff's four-day visit to Syria.

Boys in ceremonial uniform at the civil wedding ceremony of American actress Grace Kelly and Rainier III, Prince of Monaco at the Prince's Palace of Monaco, 18th April 1956. Original publication: Picture Post - 8336 - The Hour Of Marriage - pub. 28th April 1956.

The $250,000 Beverly Hills Chopper socialite Paris Hilton is to receive is displayed at Johnny Fratto's residence November 14, 2005 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Mark Mainz/Getty Images)

The Mad Hatter's tea party, a scene from a theatre production of “Alice In Wonderland”. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1910

Two women lighting cigarettes on a tennis court in Essex, England circa 1930's. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Some of London's telephone operators and engineers, trying out their gas masks at the anti-gas civilian training centre in Gloucester, where they were taught how to deal with gas attacks. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 13th February 1937