The Boeing 707 revolutionised air travel and kicked the jet age into top gear. Commercial flight today owes it everything, Jonathan Glancey writes. Whenever Frank Sinatra sang “Come fly with me ...

1954: The Boeing 367-80 makes its first flight from Renton Field southeast of Seattle. The jet-powered airliner will become the Boeing 707 and usher in the jet age for passenger travel. Boeing was ...

directly developed from the Dash 80 prototype along with the 707,were produced for the U.S. Air Force and France's Arm?e de l'Air. The KC-135was actually the original Boeing 717, a model number ...