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To: usmcobra
BOAC started using 707's in 1960.

True, but not on all routes. According to your link, by 1961 they were only using 707's to fly to the following:

Zurich, London, Tehran, New York, Los Angeles, Washington San Francisco, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

I don't see Nairobi on that list.

In point of fact, the idea that 707's would be flying to such a backwater place only 2 years after being introducted is just plain laughable.

Face the facts: if you wanted to fly to Nairobi in 1961, you were flying by prop. plane. Period.

379 posted on 05/12/2010 4:28:00 PM PDT by curiosity
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To: curiosity

How did Obama Sr. make his way to Hawaii since it seems such a difficult task in that day and age?

Just curious why it would be difficult for Stanley Ann, but not for Obama Sr. to travel.


391 posted on 05/12/2010 4:33:41 PM PDT by jcsjcm (American Patriot - follow the Constitution and in God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: curiosity
Face the facts: if you wanted to fly to Nairobi in 1961, you were flying by prop. plane. Period.

Care to bet on that?

I'll bet you $100 you are wrong

393 posted on 05/12/2010 4:35:40 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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To: curiosity

FYI in the 1960’s it was common for people to travel by unscheduled airlines, they were cheaper than the scheduled airlines. It is not unlikely that there was a charter from Hawaii or the mainland to Kenya in June 1961 to return Kenya students from Hawaii or other parts of the USA to Kenya at the end of the regular school year. I personally know unscheduled airlines flew from California to Hawaii and back in the 1960’s.


443 posted on 05/12/2010 6:46:29 PM PDT by rolling_stone (no more bailouts, the taxpayers are out of money!)
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