A380 First Delivery

"WE'RE GLAD WE WAITED FOR THE DC-8." THAT WAS how legendary United Airlines President William (Pat) Patterson dismissed the carrier's agonizing and costly nine-month delay in entering the jet age when he accepted its first DC-8 in September 1959 from longtime friend Donald Douglas Sr. Indeed...

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