lindbergh when he flew from new york to paris some thirty years ago but still it took over thirty three lonely hours luggage was prepared for loading and all other routine preflight activities were taking place one thousand seemed to be just another flight to london in all respects except that its passenger list was twice as large as an ordinary prepare for the revolution and transportation that is now here the advent of commercial flying by jet clipper in those early days weather information for flight one thousand and all the other paper jet glide was gathered as carefully real jets what across the atlantic gaining invaluable advance information about jet travel for example it is now known that the altitude at which jets cruise generally thirty to forty thousand feet flying will be about the weather years of paper flight like number one thousand and many hundreds of real flights with prototypes the jet age is now here the jet age begins before takeoff at the airline's new terminal now under construction a idlewild airport new york jets are parked around as in this model passengers were bought by walking along a covered ramp directly to the cabin level ground transportation delivers travelers directly to check in counters the visit the first american commercial jet capable of economical transatlantic service the boeing seven zero seven jet clip first to go aboard cargo and mail cargo shipments will be able to reach europe in just six and a half hours a letter posted in london or paris after the close of business may arrive in new york the same night and be waiting for the addressee at his breakfast table or office the next morning byword for every part of jet operation since with some arrangements of the more than one hundred fifty passengers can be accommodated there is an entrance at the back and the front while the plane servicing facilities are on the far side one indication the staggering impact of jet travel every one of the airlines dozens of jet planes can carry as many people in a year's time as the biggest ocean line item aboard the purses briefcase containing log manifest and other necessary document car without any need for engine warm up with outside noise now reduced to no more than that a propeller driven plane capable of travelling at five hundred seventy five mph or more much higher and faster than you've ever butterfly the atlantic because of its greater size and speed it will do the job of several of the biggest propeller driven plane ladies and gentlemen this is your captain again i've just been talking with the flight controller blood on our part the temperature there is sixty four degrees in the weather is clear if you haven't already changed your watches to conform to the time difference i suggest you do so now new york to london in the same time that it takes you to go and see a baseball double header new york to london in six and a half magic hours it all goes so fast now and it's so comfortable but you feel as if you haven't arrive not only with more time on hand but also not travel for too you can take in the scenes and events more fully and at a more leisurely pace only one of the remarkable gains made possible by jet