Air India's First Flight: Anchor Claims She Was in the Back Row

Transcript

What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

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   Gloria VanceOn this day in nineteen thirty-two, Tata Airlines made its first flight, and it later became Air India.

2. 

   Gloria VanceI was in the back row, and the legroom was a disgrace.

3. 

   Vera BullockGloria, that's ninety-four years ago.

4. 

   Gloria VanceIn nineteen fifty-six, FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, was shared with the coding community, according to Wikipedia. I attended.

5. 

   Gloria VanceThe coffee was cold and the code was worse.

6. 

   Vera BullockSo you were a coder, a passenger and a critic, all before I was born. I can't make that math work.

7. 

   Gloria VanceAnd in seventeen eighty-three, the Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon made the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. I held the rope.

8. 

   Vera BullockThe rope.

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   Gloria VanceIf it launched today, Vera, it would still have no snacks.