THE FIRST BUSINESS JET

In June 1955, the world was agog about a new type of commercial aircraft--the turbine-powered transport. American military pilots had been streaking across the skies regularly in jets for more than a decade, but now U.S. airline pilots were going to get the opportunity to make their own contrails...

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