Sentences with phrase «first jumbo jet»

In 1970, Boeing introduced the world's first jumbo jet.

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When we leased our first 747 jumbo jet in 1984, I knew very little about the airline business, beyond the fact that I had flown a lot as a record executive and disliked it.

Prior to their first trip to London together, Kuhle checked to find out the length of their jumbo jet.

First calculated by Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar, the summit of Everest, at 29,035 ft, is only just lower than the cruising altitude of a jumbo jet — between 30,000 ft and 36,000 ft.

Flying in, not as I've done from England and Europe in a jumbo jet with Greenland off the starboard side, down the Scotia coast with Halifax below, but flying in and making my first contact off the Carolina coast near the 37th meridian, where the English landed, equidistant from the Catholic French in Canada and the Spanish Jesuits in Florida.