These images from the Control Tower show some of the variety of jet aircraft operating at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport in May 1968. Note the crisp white shirts worn by the controllers! This was the third Tower at Sydney - click here for Towers one, two and four.

Taxying past in the photo above is Qantas Empire Airways Boeing 707-138B VH-EBJ Longreach, followed by an Air New Zealand DC-8. The Boeing 707, in particular, was responsible for bringing international air travel within the reach of many who were previously unable to afford it. QEA operated its first B707 services in 1959 - cick here to read about the inaugural Tahiti service in 1963.

Below, the Air New Zealand DC-8-52, ZK-NZD, heads in the opposite direction.

Above and below, Air India Boeing 707-337B VT-DVA Annapurna taxies past. This aircraft was subsequently sold in Liberia before being sold back to Boeing and stored in Arizona in 1989.