British Airways celebrated at Oct 4, 2008, the 50th birthday of the world's first scheduled airline of a jet airliner over the Atlantic. In October 1958, the historic flight from London to New York instead. As the world's first airline offering the BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation), a predecessor company of British Airways as first airline a passenger air traffic in the jets (Comet 4) were used. The Comet shortened, in contrast to the propeller-driven aircraft, with its cruising speed of around 800 km/h travel time by half, was quiet and vibration free.
