This Burger King Jet Age kids’ meal box from 1982 has information, games, and a glider toy for children to facilitate learning about the aviation industry and the history of flying. It was released as a set of four Jet Age kids’ meal boxes, each of which had punch-out pieces that turned the box into an airport or a spaceport. This box was designed to look like an international airport complete with a control tower and a terminal with people getting ready to travel into the sky. The toy inside this box was a Magellan Glider, named after the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), who successfully circumnavigated the globe by sailing around South America. The box also has an official pre-flight checklist for children to use before taking their glider on an imaginary trip into the skies.

The box contains information on air travel history with a short history of the first non-stop flights across the Atlantic Ocean. The first non-stop trip was completed by John Alcock (1892 – 1919) and Arthur Whitten Brown (1886 – 1948) from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Clifden, County Galway, Ireland, which lasted for 54 hours. A decade later, in 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh (1902 – 1974) flew non-stop from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours and became the first person to travel alone across the Atlantic. The box also highlights how in the 1980s, airline passengers riding a transcontinental supersonic jet could travel from New York to London in just 3.5 hours.