Today, 74 years ago, on January 31, 1951 (Calendar, December 24, 1950), a Boeing jet set a New York-London flight record. Captain Charles Blair On January 31, 1951, New York-based pilot Little Charles Blair set a new record of 7 hours and 48 minutes of flight from New York to London. He drove his modified Boeing jet to London with an average flight of 450 miles per hour, breaking the record set by a Pan American Airlines flight in his home last September. Blair flew from New York's Edwards Airport at 4:30 p.m. and arrived at 538 p.m. (Greenwich time). He originally planned to complete this flight in 7 hours, but in the face of wind and ice, slowed the flight very slowly. Blair said that this flight wasn't a special performance. He wanted to fly for 37