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56 Years Ago Today (Read 1165 times)

May 2^nd, 2008 at 5:00pm

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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.st...

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Reply #1 - May 2^nd, 2008 at 5:13pm

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Ground breaking stuff

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A single fare costs £175

Using this handy converter:

Historic value converter

It would cost £3,626.48 in today's money.

I bet that's not far off the current First/business class fare to South Africa..

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Reply #2 - May 2^nd, 2008 at 5:30pm

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Ground breaking stuff

Quote:

A single fare costs £175

Using this handy converter:

Historic value converter

It would cost £3,626.48 in today's money.

I bet that's not far off the current First/business class fare to South Africa..

Not bad though considering there were only 36 passengers.

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Reply #3 - May 3^rd, 2008 at 6:48am

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

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Reply #4 - May 25^th, 2008 at 8:59am

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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

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