Twenty years later, at the dawn of the jet age, the ace bet his entire new fleet budget on -- whoops!

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" also from SGN, includes the same frenetic action, but set in the jet age, rather than World War II, like "Skies.

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That streak marked the first time in the jet age that two consecutive years passed without a death in a commercial airline crash.

ECONOMIST: Business travel

The Meteor T7 was bought by members of the Jet Age Museum - based at Gloucestershire Airport - which is due to open in August.

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It was built in the 1920s as a modest holiday destination for blue-collar workers arriving by train from New York, but by the time of the jet age, the city had fallen into complete disrepair.

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The hiatus in air travel could be a rehearsal for a post-jet age if the peak oil theory is correct and we are facing a future with insufficient fuel to put into planes.

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In 1960, at the age of 58, Bill began work on a small jet plane, which revolutionized American business travel.

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