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Frank Sinatra and the Birth of the Jet Set

The Real ‘Jet Set’

A full bar with a piano. War-hero pilots in the cockpit. A cabin filled with the Rat Pack and the ladies who loved them. Sinatra embraced air travel in style: with his own private jet.

William Stadiem
William Stadiem
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William Stadiem

William Stadiem

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