In a message dated 7/15/2003 6:57:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Rinoflite@xxxxxxx writes: << National Airlines was the first airline to enter the jet age with a DC-8 and beat out pan Am which used the Boeing 707 >> Wasn't Aeroflot, with the TU-104 or BOAC with the Comet 1 the first ariline to enter the jet age?