These Photos of Celebrities on Planes in the '70s Make Flying Actually Look Fun

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 dehumanizing nightmare it is today—movie stars and musicians relax, party, and pose on their private jets. This is flight done right.

Jacqueline Onassis wraps a blanket over her legs on a private jet in 1971.

Cindy Williams of Laverne & Shirley and Ron Galella cozy up aboard a flight in 1977.

Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel enjoys a cigarette and a book during a flight in 1974.

Hugh Hefner boards the Playboy jet at London's Heathrow Airport in 1971.

Actress Ali MacGraw and husband Robert Evans cross the tarmac at a Rome airport as they depart for Nice, France in 1971.

Jane Fonda and author Mark Lane share notes during a flight en route from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 1970.

Hugh Hefner (left) enjoys a game of backgammon aboard the Playboy jet in 1971.

Billy Joel puts his feet up and catches some shut-eye on a plane in 1978.

J. Willard Marriott, president of the eponymous hotel chain, smiles with the flight attendant on a flight in 1973.

Liza Minnelli helms the cockpit for a publicity shoot in 1975.

Elton John travels on his 1974 U.S. tour on a private jet complete with a piano bar.

Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards during the Rolling Stones' 1975 Tour of the Americas.

B.B. King plays his hollowbody guitar (better known as Lucille) for a woman in Japan in 1970.

Goldie Hawn heads to France to film There's a Girl in My Soup in 1970.

Queen Elizabeth and Princess Anne leave from Heathrow Airport in London for a two-month trip to Australia and New Zealand in 1970.

KISS salutes with military officers in 1975.

Keith Richards and Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones chat on their plane while on tour in 1975.

President Gerald R. Ford and his wife Betty Ford share a moment during a flight en route to Oman in 1979.

Eric Clapton holds an audio cassette tape on a private jet in 1978.

Roger Moore plays an electric keyboard onboard a private jet in 1975.

Elizabeth Taylor on her personal plane in the '70s.

Cher takes a flight to Los Angeles with Chastity (now Chaz) Bono in 1975.

Ronnie Wood smokes a cigarette while onboard a plane during the Rod Stewart and the Faces' American tour in 1975.

Hugh Hefner and his girlfriend Barbi Benton aboard Hefner's private jet, "The Big Bunny," in 1970.

Rod Stewart on a plane during the Faces' tour in America in 1975.

Frank Zappa sits in the cockpit of an airplane in Detroit in 1976.

Elton John in bed on board a private jet in 1975.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan en route to an American Film Institute event in 1974.

John Travolta shows off his private jet for an interview with David Frost in 1978.

Steven Tyler aboard a plane before an Aerosmith show in Michigan in 1976.

Elizabeth Taylor and husband Senator John Warner during a flight in 1978.

Percussionist Ollie Brown relaxes with a Rolling Stone magazine while on tour with the Rolling Stones in 1975.

Robert Redford wears a pilot outfit for a scene in The Great Waldo Pepper in 1975.

Mick Jagger reads a paper aboard the Rolling Stones' private jet during their 1975 Tour of the Americas. Keyboardist Billy Preston sits behind him.

Frank Sinatra arrives in the U.K. on his private Gulfstream jet in 1970.

Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones and his wife Mo aboard "The Starship" while on tour in America in 1973.

Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac sits on their private jet in 1975.

Hugh Hefner aboard the Playboy Jet in 1971.

John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin plays electric organ on board a private Boeing 720B airliner known as "The Starship" used by the band on tour in 1973.

Frank Sinatra takes a helicopter ride in the U.K. to avoid highway traffic in 1970.

Television host David Frost interviews John Travolta at an airfield in 1978. The movie star ventured into the cockpit during the special.

The children of the Spanish royal family fill the seats of an airplane in 1973 while en route to Madrid.

Burt Reynolds shoots a daring scene on a helicopter for his movie Hooper in 1978. The film was the actor's follow-up to Smokey and the Bandit.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono disembark from a small plane in 1971 as they arrive in France for the Cannes Film Festival, shortly after Lennon announced his departure from The Beatles.

Andy Warhol and actress Jane Forth are photographed upon their arrival in Munich, Germany in 1971. Warhol was visiting for the premiere of his film Trash.

British model Maizie Williams boards a small plane in Nairobi, Kenya in 1978 in a chic linen suit and matching hat.

Sean Connery in-between scenes on the set of Diamonds Are Forever in 1971. While filming at an airfield, the actor's suit is attended to by an assistant.

Dennis Hopper jumps into the cockpit and gets a look behind the wheel of an aircraft carrier battleship in 1976.