![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
c9Sadly, I missed it by one. But anyway.
The Boeing 707 is a four engined commercial passenger jet aircraft developed by Boeing in the early 1950s. Although it was not the first commercial jet airliner in service (that distinction belongs to the De Havilland Comet), it was the first one to be commercially successful, and is credited by many as ushering in the "Jet Age", as well as being the first of Boeing's ubiquitous 7x7 range of airliners. The success of jet airliners can be attributed to the economics of it - a 707 could do 5 times the work of a piston engine airliner such as the DC-6 at only double the cost.
[...]
American actor John Travolta owns (and is qualified to fly) a 707-138, registration N707JT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_707
The Boeing 707 is a four engined commercial passenger jet aircraft developed by Boeing in the early 1950s. Although it was not the first commercial jet airliner in service (that distinction belongs to the De Havilland Comet), it was the first one to be commercially successful, and is credited by many as ushering in the "Jet Age", as well as being the first of Boeing's ubiquitous 7x7 range of airliners. The success of jet airliners can be attributed to the economics of it - a 707 could do 5 times the work of a piston engine airliner such as the DC-6 at only double the cost.
[...]
American actor John Travolta owns (and is qualified to fly) a 707-138, registration N707JT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_707
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-04-15 11:31 am (UTC)It's funny now.