Assistant Editor - Airliner World. Contributor and former deputy editor at Airways.
On this day in 2002, the smallest member of the Airbus A320 family, the A318, took to the skies.
Today, in 1976, British Airways received its inaugural Supersonic Concorde, G-BOAA, at LHR.
Today, in 1989, the instantly recognizable JetCruzer 450 took to the skies for the first time.
The Hawker Siddeley Trident was the world's first trijet, beating the Boeing 727 by a year.
From its formation in 1955, Transbrasil became Brazil's second-largest carrier until its 2001 end.
In 1964, Pope Paul VI became the first head of the Roman Catholic Church to fly on a commercial jet.
After 23 years of service, Pan Am retired the aircraft that ushered in the jet age in the 1950s.
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