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The Jet Age, the First American Commercial Jet

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In the late 19 fifties, a leap in aviation technology threatened to undermine everything that o'regan and his team at shannon had built. The very thing that created the airport was about to render it obsolete. Without passengers in airport cannot survive. It has no functions. Starting in 19 58, the same year bowing's first mass produced passenger jet whent into service, passenger traffic at shannon began to plum it. And i got to say, of all the tape id listened to of brennon o'regan, this was the one moment in the whole saga when, looking back, he sounds genuinely rattled. There was a continuous ward being passed on, we are going

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