The Boeing 707 is a significant aircraft in several aspects ... Boeing decided that its passenger-focused jet planes would bear the 700-series numbers. Boeing has continued this tradition ...

Boeing’s marketing department swept in and rightfully suggested that the name didn’t exactly roll of the tongue. Instead, the 700 was rechristened the alliterative 707. The 717 followed the ...

While propeller planes used the 300 and 400 series, and rockets the 600 series, commercial jets were assigned to the 700 series. The first model of this new phase, the Boeing 707, was initially ...

(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.) ...

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 ...

The lineup included everything from Boeing's 707 that revolutionized the jet age when it debuted in the 1950s to the state-of-the art 787 Dreamliner that entered commercial service in 2012.

So why was the first Boeing jet aircraft known as the 707 rather than the 700 when it first took to the air in the 1950s? Because Boeing's marketing department intervened, and just as 007 sounds ...

Pan American World Airways placed the first 707 order, for 20 of the jets, on Oct. 14, 1955. But it also ordered 25 competing Douglas DC-8s. Boeing delivered the first 707 on Aug. 15, 1958 ...