First Paris to Salt Lake City flight

" What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free "

Photos: Scott Sommerdorf/The Salt Lake Tribune.
Delta 767-300 taxis to the gate at Salt Lake City International Airport monday afternoon, after landing as the first Paris-to-SLC flight. Scott Sommerdorf/The Salt Lake Tribune.

A New Transportation Era
"The dawn of a new transportation era began around 1:30 p.m. Monday with a puff of white smoke from under the wheels of the wide-body jet as it landed on time after an 11-hour flight that began at Charles de Gaulle International Airport at 2:20 a.m., MDT. Preceded by a phalanx of seven siren-blaring police and fire vehicles, the aircraft rolled through a water cannon salute from two tank trucks before docking, dripping wet, at Gate D-2 in Terminal 2." SLTribune.

Donald Fagen " The Nightfly" 1982

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