Early long-range jet airliners transformed global travel. Explore how the 707, DC-8, VC10, and Il-62 reshaped ...

News broke on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 that, according to the Associated Press, “Boeing has violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after two deadly crashes involving ...

The 707 became a catalyst for change in both industry and culture. It inspired confidence in jet-powered travel and ...

Before the gleaming 747s that now ferry U.S. presidents across oceans, there was a smaller, sleeker jet that carried the weight of the free world. The last Boeing 707 to serve as a primary Air Force ...

“Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World” (Avery, $27), by Sam Howe Verhovek: The years immediately following Britain’s victory in World War II were unkind to the island nation.

Iranian Boeing 707 cargo aircraft which crashed on Monday into a residential area, while trying to land west Tehran. According to the Iranian authorities, 15 of the 16 people on board of decades-old ...

El Al Israel Airlines took delivery yesterday of its first Boeing 707 Intercontinental jet airliner in a formal ceremony held at Boeing Field here. Gleaming in the blue and white markings of Israel’s ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on March 2, 1962. This story was written by Gerald Kessler and Henry Lee.) Within two minutes after takeoff, in the first sparkling weather after 10 days of ...

As it soared close to Japan’s Mount Fuji on a cloudless day in March 1966, a BOAC 707 jet was suddenly battered by tremendous gusts of wind that broke it apart. All 124 persons aboard were killed.

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On July 15, 1954, a graceful, swept-winged aircraft, bedecked in brown and yellow paint and powered by four ...