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 ...

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 ...

The 700 block was for jet-engine airliners. Makes sense, but where did that "X7" part come from? That goes back to Boeing's very first commercial jet, the 707 (pictured), first flown in 1957.

(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 end product was the first of Boeing's 700 series, the Boeing 707, which made its first production flight on December 20, 1957. It had a wingspan of 131 ft (40 m), a cruising speed of 600 mph ...

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 ...

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.

But it only has two years on the Air Force's other senior citizen, an aircraft that will likely keep flying for as long as the B-52: the venerable Boeing 707. The E-8 JSTARS and its associated ...