Sentence examples for transatlantic jet from inspiring English sources

A British Airways transatlantic jet has returned safely to Heathrow after declaring a mid-air emergency over the Scottish Highlands.

On October 4, 1958, it began operating the world's first transatlantic jet service (between London and New York City).

The first civil jet transport, the British de Havilland Comet, flew in 1949, and regular transatlantic jet services were started in 1958 with the Comet 4 and the American Boeing 707.

A Whitehall source told the Guardian passenger profiling was "in the mix" of the review into airport security ordered this week by Gordon Brown after the failed attempt to blow up a transatlantic jet on Christmas Day.

While BOAC gained publicity as the first to provide transatlantic jet service, by the end of the month rival Pan American World Airways was flying the Boeing 707 on the same route, and in 1960 the Douglas DC-8 as well.

A popular theory at the time was that the introduction of transatlantic jet travel had shortened the careers of many singers by putting them on an accelerated career track that did not allow for the proper kind of vocal rest enjoyed by singers who had traveled exclusively by steamship and rail.

The three men were among eight tried in connection with an al-Qa'ida-inspired plot to detonate homemade liquid bombs on transatlantic jets.

The town of Gander (population 11,254 at that time) on the northeast tip of Newfoundland had a huge airport, a remnant of when transatlantic jets needed to refuel there to make it to American destinations.

(A Boeing transatlantic passenger jet flies at an average of 35,000 to 40,000 feet).

In Caracas, I exchanged a transatlantic 777 jet for an 11-passenger Caravan turbo prop.

The race is hotting up to create the fastest transatlantic business jet, with companies including Lockheed Martin and Aerion creating superfast planes that could cut the length of plane journeys in half.