In 1930, the airship R100 set out on its first passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada.
The 1978 S-Class was the first passenger vehicle in the world to get antilock brakes.
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Mr Kibaki has inaugurated the service, and is expected to be the first passenger to take the ride.
I'm the first passenger to get back on a plane, even though I'm terrified, because I know somebody has to be first.
Officials in Khotan had been celebrating too, with the launch at the end of June of the remote city's first passenger-train service.
The British-made Comet, the world's first passenger jet, flew in 1952, before designers at de Havilland Aircraft Ltd. fully understood metal fatigue.
The maiden flight is due to take place later this year, with the first passenger flight expected in the second half of 2014.
Mercedes says the 1959 220S was the first passenger car in the world to feature a dedicated crash structure around the cabin, replete with crumple zones.
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One happier development for Mr Vajpayee may come on February 20th when, if all goes well, he will board the first passenger-carrying bus to Pakistan since 1965.
Many politicians and celebrities were on the first passenger flight.
The first passenger off the first flight into Heathrow - the BA84 from Vancouver - was Neil Rogers, from Little London, near Reading, who said the atmosphere on board was "great".
Since 1993, when Mercedes built its first passenger-vehicle plant in the United States in Vance, Alabama, the state has focused on attracting foreign-owned companies, of which it now has over 300.
The launch on July 1st of the first passenger train services to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, has been covered by the Chinese media with hoopla only comparable to that surrounding the country's first launch of a man into space three years ago.
Delta Air Lines was founded in the city of Macon, Georgia (originally as a crop-dusting company called Huff Daland Dusters) and later moved its headquarters about 85 miles north to Atlanta in 1941 (after running its first passenger flights under the name Delta Air Service in 1929).
In 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman passenger to fly across the Atlantic.
In 2004, he financed the first private passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipOne.
DaimlerChrysler hopes to clean up the foul image with the diesel version of its popular Jeep Liberty, the first diesel passenger vehicle sold by a U.S. carmaker in decades.
First quarter passenger car sales in China may have been flat, but that does not seem to have dampened the enthusiasm for the Beijing Auto Show, which opened earlier this week.
In 2006 - 30 years after the first 125 passenger service left London's Paddington station for Bristol Temple Meads - Grange told the BBC News website his modernist classic had an immediate impact.
The offshoot of billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways in December unveiled the first commercial passenger spaceship, a sleek black-and-white vessel that represents an expensive gamble on creating a commercial space tourism industry.
"Right about that time, we hit some really severe turbulence, and ... several people flew up and hit the ceiling of the plane and then were immediately slammed down to the floor of the plane, " first class passenger Jeff Hornback told KPLC.
The first known commercial passenger airplane crash occurred in Pakistan in 1953 when a Canadian Pacific DH-106 Comet crashed shortly after takeoff from Karachi.
Government support for developing new passenger aircraft first emerged as a contentious issue in 1988.
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In her outstanding book on photographer Edward Muybridge, Rebecca Solnit recounts a death, during the first running of a passenger railroad in 1830, because a man could not step off the track in time from a long-seen locomotive going perhaps 30 miles an hour.
Mercedes-Benz has a long history with diesel engines, dating back to 1936 and the first production diesel-powered passenger car, the 260 D.
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The court was told that Mrs McCracken, a retired civil servant from Stoke Gifford, was a passenger on a First Bus service on 16 May.
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Southwest, which doesn't charge fees for a passenger's first two checked bags, pushed its prices up faster than its competitors: Its yield jumped 35% over the same period.
In 1920, the first fatalities on a scheduled passenger flight occurred when an aircraft crashed into a house, killing the two-person crew and two passengers at Cricklewood, London.
After years of delays it should start delivering its first model, the six-passenger HondaJet, next year.
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