Fly the Friendly Skies: When United Air Lines Entered the Jet Age

United Air Lines officially entered the jet age on 18 September 1959, when Flight 800—a Douglas DC-8—departed San Francisco for New York at 0830 local time. It would have been the first scheduled DC-8 flight in the world had Delta Air Lines not inaugurated its own DC-8 service from New York to Atlanta that same […]

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