The first Boeing 707 variants that went into commercial service bore the model number 707-120. Boeing also made an upgraded variant of the 707-120 and called it the Boeing 707-120B. These planes ...

The new model 367-80 was simply known as the "Dash 80," and development continued despite the cool reception from the airlines. These days, hundreds of orders were on the books for Boeing's new ...

The order total remained at zero on May 14, 1954, when Boeing rolled the Model 367-80 out of its Renton ... was the prototype for the 707 jetliner, which dominated the early jet age, and the ...

On Friday, May 14, 1954, just after 4 p.m., the “Model 707” prototype – also known as the “Dash 80” – debuted at the Boeing factory in Renton on the shores of Lake Washington.

Constellations nicknamed Columbine II and Columbine III that received the formal designation Air Force One before moving onto the more widely recognized Boeing 707 model. Lockheed VC-121E ...

(Use of the number “7” in Boeing jets has a mundane explanation; it was the next sequence in model numbers. 707 was chosen over 700 because the marketing department thought it had a better ring.) ...

When the Flyer of the Wright Brothers leapt off the ground at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in December 1903, they never imagined that in just a few (relatively) short decades, their one-person ...

Early Boeing products had names like the Model 40, Model 80 ... Instead, the 700 was rechristened the alliterative 707. The 717 followed the pattern, with subsequent decades bringing with them ...

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 ...

Boeing has closed a significant chapter in ... biggest configuration compared to about 200 passengers for the older 707 model. Many historians call the 747 the original jumbo jet, and demand ...