* The era of jumbo jets began on January 15, 1970, when First Lady Pat Nixon christened a Pan Am Boeing 747 at Dulles in the presence of Pan Am chairman Najeeb Halaby.

The decade also witnessed the early beginnings of new technologies ( including computers, nuclear power and jet propulsion ), often first developed in tandem with the war effort, and later adapted and improved upon in the post-war era.

The first jet airliners came in the immediate post war era.

The jet aircraft of the era were considerably less effective at low speeds than propeller aircraft, but propeller aircraft could not effectively fight jets at the high speeds flown by jet aircraft.

Roe Canada's next design, the Avro XC-100, Canada's first jet fighter, started at the end of the era of propeller-driven aircraft and the beginning of the jet age.

During most of the jet era, Pan Am's flagship terminal was the Worldport located at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.

Along with every other engine company in the post-war era, Napier turned to jet engine designs.

In the immediate post war era the piston-engined ground-attack aircraft remained useful since all of the early jets lacked endurance due to the fuel consumption rates of the jet engines.

The performance gap between this weapon and jet fighters of the post-war era was so great that such designs would not be effective.

Some Soviet jet fighter prototypes of the late-1940s / early-1950s era included cannon mounted in the nose that were capable of being trained in elevation, however none achieved production status.

World entered the jet era in the late 1960s with Boeing 707s and 727s.

* 50 aircraft, including fighters from both world wars and the early jet era, passenger airliners

Many Armenians rose to prominence during this era, including one of Khrushchev's friends, Mikoyan, who was the older brother of the designer and co-founder of the Soviet MiG fighter jet company, Artem Mikoyan.

In the post war era, the RAF introduced Interdictor variants of their English Electric Canberra jet bomber, the aircraft being available as the strategic bombing had been taken over the new V bombers

On, a Boeing 737-200 leased from South African Airways that flew the Windhoek – Johannesburg route inaugurated the carrier's jet era.

Before the jet airline era, Port Bell was a landing point on the Imperial Airways flying boat passenger and mail route from Southampton to Johannesburg's Vaal Dam.

The dawn of the jet airplane era in 1958 also helped boxing expand worldwide: with airplanes flying faster and more frequently between cities far away from each other, more and more world title fights began to be fought outside the United States.

Before the jet airline era, the city was a landing point on the British flying boat passenger and mail route from Southampton to Cape Town.

Before the jet airline era, Kisumu was a landing point on the British flying boat passenger and mail route from Southampton to Cape Town.

Light fighters again became popular in during the early era of jet engine development, for much the same reasons.

Planes in service with Interflug between 1963 and 1991 included the prop-driven Ilyushin Il-18 ( one of the major civilian aircraft of its era, and one that is still in use today ), the Ilyushin Il-62 ( the first long-range jet airliner to be put into service by a number of countries including East Germany ) and the Tupolev Tu-134 medium-range jet.

By the time the design was flying in the post-war era, jet engines had rendered the design obsolete and the US Navy lost interest.

Some date it from woman suffrage, others from when women first began to challenge men in the marketplace, still others from the era of the emancipated flapper and bathtub gin.

These three propositions were further developed by his followers, who maintained that God revealed Himself in a threefold revelation, the first in the Biblical patriarch Abraham, marking the epoch of the Father ; the second in Jesus Christ, who began the epoch of the Son ; and the third in Amalric and his disciples, who inaugurated the era of the Holy Ghost.

The Atlanta Falcons began the Arthur Blank era of ownership with a 9 – 6 – 1 record and a berth in the playoffs as

Additionally, Brooks Robinson was named Most Valuable Player in 1964, just two years before the 1966 – 1983 golden era began.

This standardization began in the era of discrete transistor mainframes and minicomputers and has rapidly accelerated with the popularization of the integrated circuit ( IC ).

" An era of peaceful democracy in Costa Rica began in 1889 with elections considered the first truly free and honest ones in the country's history.

But the real golden era for the costume jewelry began in the middle of the 20th century.

Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

The era began in the wake of the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event ( K-Pg event ) at the end of the Cretaceous that saw the demise of the last non-avian dinosaurs ( as well as other terrestrial and marine flora and fauna ) at the end of the Mesozoic.

New Confucianism is an intellectual movement of Confucianism that began in the early 20th century in Republican China, and revived in post-Mao era contemporary China.

With Hugh's coronation, a new era began for France, and his descendants came to be named the Capetians, with the Capetian dynasty ruling France for more than 800 years ( 987 – 1848, with some interruptions ).

They began to emerge from that dismal period into a new era of increased consistency, however, after the hiring of Marvin Lewis as head coach in 2003.

Tradition holds that, in that era, the year began on the first new moon after the winter solstice.

( See The Modern Corporation and Private Property The well-known Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision began to influence policymaking and the modern corporate era had begun.

The newly christened DEC received $ 70, 000 from AR & D for a 70 % share of the company, and began operations in a Civil War era textile mill in Maynard, Massachusetts, where plenty of inexpensive manufacturing space was available.

According to C. Michael Hogan, the Daugava River began experiencing environmental deterioration in the era of Soviet collective agriculture ( producing considerable adverse water pollution runoff ) and a wave of hydroelectric power projects.

The circumstances which led to an exclave of New York being located within New Jersey began in the colonial era, after the British takeover of New Netherland in 1664.

When Henry VIII broke from Rome an era of religious repression began.

Some historians consider that a new era of the gay rights movement began in the 1980s with the emergence of AIDS, which decimated the leadership and shifted the focus for many.

In 391, the Byzantine era began with the permanent division of the Roman Empire into East and Western halves.

His bestselling three-volume work, The Outline of History ( 1920 ), began a new era of popularised world history.

The era of modern computing began with a flurry of development before and during World War II.

His role and unique talent as a teacher and communicator of mystical revival began a new era in Jewish mysticism.

In the post-war reconstruction era, the numbers of immigrants began to increase, many settling in the larger cities and towns of Britain.