Viscount To Cyprus -- As the British European airways viscount airliner prepared to leave London this morning, 18 April, to make the world's first fare-paying flight in a jet-prop airliner, a stagecoach and helicopter were on the scene to add publicity to the enterprise. April 18, 1953. (Photo by Associated Press Photo). ;Viscount To Cyprus -- As the British European airways viscount airliner prepared to leave London this morning, 18 April, to make the world's first fare-paying flight in a jet-p