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50 years ago today the jet age came to Australia

July 29, 2009 – 2:16 pm

This afternoon 50 years ago saw the start of the jet age for passengers in Australia, and on the Pacific.
Qantas flight EM774, a Qantas 707-138 took off at 3.35 pm on 29 July 1959 for San Francisco via Nadi and Honolulu, and made the trip in only 14 hours 57 minutes.
It was the beginning of [...]

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Jetzilla meets the original V-jet

October 23, 2008 – 11:24 am

What a shame Qantas didn’t shine a bit more of the spotlight on the original article when its first A380 inaugurated commercial services by the giant Airbus at LAX this week.

That small object on the left in this photo by Joshua Bray is John Travolta’s own Boeing 707-138B, painted in the V-jet livery in which [...]

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