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Boeing marked 50th anniversary of 707 first flight
Seattle, Usa - Pan Am World Airways was the first 707 customer
"Boeing marked the 50th anniversary of the first flight of its 707 jetliner, and the point in commercial aviation history when propellers gave way to the jet age and air travel became affordable and available. On a typically cold and rainy Northwest Friday afternoon Dec. 20, 1957, Boeing's chief of flight test Tex Johnston, his copilot Jim Gannet and flight engineer Tom Layne sat on the drenched...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency