First Pilot to Fly a Million Miles in a Jet Airplane

In 1959, Garlow was flying a jet-prop Vickers Viscount, which Capital Airlines first put into service on July 26, 1955.  Garlow’s record was described as “a million miles of jet flying,” even though the aircraft had propellers, because in the late 1950s, turboprops like the Viscount were widely marketed as “jet-prop” or turbine aircraft since they used Rolls-Royce Dart jet-derived turbine engines rather than piston engines.