jet age
Turbine travel period
The jet age is the era of commercial aviation powered by jet engines, beginning in the 1950s when passenger jets transformed travel.
The term evokes mid-century optimism about speed and progress: My grandmother remembers the dawn of the jet age.
It often appears nostalgically, contrasting that era's glamour with modern air travel's hassles.
Exceeding audio velocity
- BoeingAmerican aircraft manufacturer
- 747Boeing's iconic widebody airliner
- ConcordeSupersonic passenger aircraft
- turbineBlade-driven energy converter
fuselage · cockpit · runway · altitude · airspace · transatlantic · transcontinental · airline
After hostilities end
- midcenturyAround the 1950s
- 1950sDecade after WWII
- 1960sDecade after the fifties
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
modernity · progress · optimism · futurism · streamlined · prosperity · suburbia · consumerism
Traveling widely worldwide
- tourismLeisure travel sector
- destinationIntended arrival point
- itineraryPlanned sequence of destinations
- voyageJourney by sea
sightseeing · wanderlust · passport · international · excursion · vacation · holiday · resort
Directed rate of motion
- rapidMoving with haste
- swiftMoving with speed
- accelerationRate velocity changes
- breakthroughSudden important advance
efficiency · shrinking world · accessibility · convenience · mobility · connectivity · instantaneous · express
supersonic
Exceeding audio velocity
- BoeingAmerican aircraft manufacturer
- 747Boeing's iconic widebody airliner
- ConcordeSupersonic passenger aircraft
turbine · fuselage · cockpit · runway · altitude · airspace · transatlantic · transcontinental · airline · flight
postwar
After hostilities end
- midcenturyAround the 1950s
- 1950sDecade after WWII
- 1960sDecade after the fifties
Cold War · modernity · progress · optimism · futurism · streamlined · prosperity · suburbia · consumerism · baby boom
globetrotting
Traveling widely worldwide
- tourismLeisure travel sector
- destinationIntended arrival point
- itineraryPlanned sequence of destinations
voyage · sightseeing · wanderlust · passport · international · excursion · vacation · holiday · resort · cruise
velocity
Directed rate of motion
- rapidMoving with haste
- swiftMoving with speed
- accelerationRate velocity changes
breakthrough · efficiency · shrinking world · accessibility · convenience · mobility · connectivity · instantaneous · express · nonstop
- travel historyGrand Tour, travel documents, travel papers, travel diaries, travel journals
- tech erasPaleolithic, Neolithic
- traveltrip, trips, journey, journeys, travel
- aviationaircraft, airports, flying, flight, airplane
- Aviation HistoryWright Brothers, Wright Flyer, Wright brothers, Kitty Hawk, first flight
- RAFRAF, Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster, Battle of Britain
jet ageVictorian age
British nineteenth-century period
steam age · nineteenth century · Edwardian era · gaslight era · antiquity
age, jet, ageless, jets, jettison, reactionary, jetted, jetting, aeronautical