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AvAnalysisBOAC Beat Pan Am Across the Atlantic: Why Britain’s Lead Was Lost
BOAC's Comet 4 won the first transatlantic jet race in October 1958, but Boeing's 707 made that victory irrelevant within weeks.
Photo: Ian Dunster (CC BY-SA 2.0 uk)
AvAnalysisBOAC's Comet 4 won the first transatlantic jet race in October 1958, but Boeing's 707 made that victory irrelevant within weeks.
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