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To: Red Steel
Rollout of the first Boeing 707, May 15, 1954. Curiosity has to be the most incurious.

LOL. Do you honestly think they were making regular flights to Kenya?

313 posted on 05/12/2010 1:54:28 PM PDT by curiosity
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To: curiosity
LOL. Do you honestly think they were making regular flights to Kenya?

Honestly, are you this incurious? Do you actually think the modern jet age began after when you were born? And if you were born before then, you are the least curious person not to know the fact that regular commercial jet flights were flying around the world way before Obama was born.


You have a documented witness who has told you straight in your face that Obama told him that he was born in Monbassa, Kenya. Is that a myth Obot?


British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) flights were in and out of Kenya on a regular basis:



" Kenya - Nairobi 1956 etc., By Maurice Flanagan

When I joined in January 1953, with memories of the war still lingering, BOAC was often said by some resentful persons to stand for 'Bastards Overseas Avoiding Conscription."

At Eastleigh Airport in the second half of the fifties before Embakasi was opened in 1957 (I think), the runway surface consisted of compacted murram, the red East African soil. It became sloppy when wet."

Low-winged Constellations would have suffered flap damage on landing if the surface was too sloppy, and we did not keep spare flaps on the station. Our solution was to drive flat out down the runway, slap the brakes on, and if the car rotated, advise the captain to divert."


-end snip-


"Nairobi 1960 to 1962"


"A British United Airways Britannia viewed from the departure gate at Embakasi Airport
with its up-dated signpost which replaced the more famous original at Eastleigh
- PHOTO Malcolm McCrow."


You are just too easy.

328 posted on 05/12/2010 2:19:01 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: curiosity
LOL. Do you honestly think they were making regular flights to Kenya?

Check this site out

707-436 G-APFJ BOAC-Nigeria Airways: London-Heathrow, August 1963

You are obviously not a fan of the Beatles...Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC

By the way this particular aircraft still exists.

333 posted on 05/12/2010 2:28:29 PM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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