56 Years Ago Today

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The first passengers boarded a jet airliner:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/2/newsid_2480000/2480339.stm

[MWISimmer]

Ground breaking stuff  :)
[quote]A single fare costs

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[quote]Ground breaking stuff  :)
[quote]A single fare costs

[Mazza]

It's funny how they were all like OMG jet planes for us, and we are like hey look a jet.....LOL

[garryrussell]

That wasn't the first passenger jet flight though.

That honour belongs to the Nene Viking.....London-Paris.

This is the commercial inaugural by the Worlds first purpose built civil jet airliner on a scheduled service.

Still historic nonetheless