United Aircraft Corporation
April 29, 1950 - The Saturday Evening Post

If you do a lot of overseas air travel for work (or any other reason), this en route time map from a 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post magazine might give you a bit of cheering up. Compare the length of time in the air back during the day of propeller-driven airliners versus what you typically experience today. United Aircraft published that a trip from New York to London took 12-½ hours (with favorable winds). The same flight today takes around 7-½ hours, a 40% reduction. From Seattle to Tokyo was 28-½ hours, and is now 10-½ hours, for a 63% reduction! Those shorter flight times are due to both faster jet-powered airplanes and an ability to climb to and cruise at altitudes where jet stream winds are highly additive. Of course having to endure 10-½ hours crammed into a narrow seat with the back of the front seat mere inches from your face, while existing amongst the ilk of passengers aboard these days, might make you dream of flying for 28-½ hours in a quiet, comfortable environment with plenty of personal space, good food, pleasant company, and attentive service from the flight crew.

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