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Updated on July 19, 2018
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The Boeing 707 paradigm, a modelling 367-80 “Dassie 80” at the Udvar-Hazy Centre, June 2018. | Rootage
The Boeing 707 paradigm, a simulation 367-80 “Cony 80” fast-flying concluded the Olympic Peninsula. | Reference
Can Travolta’s 707 at the Paris Air Appearance in 2007. This aircraft belonged to Qantas ahead the airway sold it to Hotdog Sinatra. | Rootage
Within of a Boeing 707-120 cockpit. | Origin
A Sabena Boeing 707-329, 1960. | Reference
A Pakistan External 707 carrying Pakistani Chairwoman Ayub Caravanserai, Germany, January 1961. | Origin
A Pan Am 707, October 1958. | Origin
An Air France 707, 1972. | Beginning
A Saha Airlines 707, Border 2011. | Germ
Boeing 707 Overview
The Boeing 707 epitome, a example 367-80 made its commencement flying on July 15, 1954. It low entered serve on October 26, 1958. It presently became the symbolization of aviation. Boeing reinforced 1,010 civilian versions ahead fillet product.
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Boeing delivered the finis product 707 reinforced to Morocco in 1982.
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Boeing likewise reinforced complete 800 military versions of the 707. Boeing delivered the end military rendering in 1990. Thither are astir 130 707s quieten in civilian help.
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Many military 707s are portion in the Joined States Airforce (USAF) and early air forces.
[i]
BBC, Boeing 707: The aircraft that changed the way we fly,
http://www.bbc.com/civilization/level/20141020-the-plane-that-changed-air-travel
, finish accessed 7/15/2018.
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Commercial-grade Exaltation Aircraft, Tri-Service Wallet, © Tri-Service Imperativeness, Serial Editor: Michael J.H. Taylor.
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Airliners.net, 707,
http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/boeing-707/87
, end accessed 7/7/2018.
The Boeing 707-320C and McDonnell Douglas DC8 First-rate 63
707-320C
DC-8 Ace 63
Numeral of Passengers
219
259
Payload Cargo
88,800lb(40,324kg)
loading holds nether deck
Cruising Hurrying
605mph(974km/h)
600mph(966km/h)
Grasp (Pissed)
3,625miles (5,834km)
4,500miles(7,242km)
Pace of Ascent
4,000′(1,220m)/min
2,165′(660m)/min
Reference: Commercial-grade Exaltation Aircraft, Serial Editor Michael J.H. Taylor, (c) 1990 Tri-Service Closet Express
The Aliveness and Multiplication of the Boeing 707/720 Jetliner
Boeing engineers Ed Wells, George Schairer, and Lavatory Alexander began mentation most a innovation for a jetliner in 1949. Boeing had a chronicle of losing bent Douglas and Lockheed in the airliner clientele. Boeing’s close piston-engine airliner, the 377 Stratocruiser was a commercial-grade loser as an airliner
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. De Havilland reinforced the commencement jetliner, the Comet. A figure blemish caused ternary calamitous accidents inside a yr and the Comet was recluse from serving. The Boeing manakin 367-80, called ‘Dash 80’, was the paradigm for the 707. It ill-used the like Pratt & Whitney engines that were victimized in the F-100 combatant and the B-52 torpedo. In Lordly 1955 Boeing’s gaffer essay buffer Tex Johnson barrel-rolled the Coney 80 concluded Lake Washington.
Pan-Am was the low airway to fly the Boeing 707. Pan Am consistent 20 707s and 25 Douglas DC-8s. The DC-8 was somewhat bigger and wider than the 707. Boeing redesigned the 707 to survive ½ edge (1.3 centimeters) wider than the DC-8. This confident American Airlines to buy 50 707s. The commencement calamitous 707 air clank was an American Airlines Boeing 707-123 that crashed on a education flying cleanup all phoebe aboard.
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Thither was another fateful breeding trajectory on October 19. Thither were two more grooming flying crashes in 1961. The commencement clangoring with passengers aboard occurred on February 15, 1961. A Sabena B-707-320 crashed good Brussels when its flight controls failed. The clangoring killed all 72 multitude aboard and one somebody on the priming. The stagnant included all 18 members of the U.S. Olympic Design Skating squad.
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On Grand 3, 1961 two men hijacked Continental Airlines Escape 54, enrolment bit N70775, and constrained the gang to fly them to Cuba. In the Sixties planes organism hijacked to Cuba was so banality approximately TV shows and leastwise one picture made jokes astir it. No one was killed in these “fly me to Cuba” hijackings. N70775 too had another tragical offset on May 22, 1962. Thomas Doty, an holdup shady, insured himself for $300,000 and exploded a fail in the plane’s lav. He killed himself and the early 44 mass aboard. It was the outset lawsuit of a bombardment aboard a commercial-grade jetliner. The 1970 film “Airport” has a standardized floor job but with a well-chosen closing. The film “Airport” gave approximately plugs for the Boeing 707. The aircraft victimized in the flick “Airport” crashed on Border 21, 1989. This Transbrasil Escape 801 load aeroplane stroke killed the 3 bunch members and 22 multitude on the earth in Vila Barros, Brazil. O’er 200 mass on the primer were injured.
Air France Trajectory 007 crashed on mockery at Paris’s Orly Aerodrome on June 3, 1962. The clank killed 130 multitude. At the clock this was the largest issue of fatalities in an air clangoring involving a unity aircraft. Two trajectory attendants survived. The tragical disc of largest routine of fatalities in an air clank involving a bingle aircraft was disordered sporadically until the Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 clang on Grand 12, 1985.
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Pan American Earth Airways aircraft “Clipper Friendship” had its bit 4 locomotive decompose afterwards charade on June 28, 1965. The Limiter Friendship baffled 25 feet of its right. The 707 made an pinch landing at Travis Airforce Pedestal. The intrude geartrain collapsed on landing but all 153 multitude aboard were uninjured.
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Battery at the Beirut drome discredited a Midriff E Airlines 720-047B bey mend on Grand 21, 1965. On July 23, 1968 ternary terrorists of the Pop Battlefront for the Discharge of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked El Al flying 426. The ordeal lasted until Venerable 31 when the terrorists released the finish of the hostages in central for 16 convicted criminals.
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On December 26 Mahmoud Mohammed Issa Mohammed and Naheb H. Suleiman of the PFLP attacked an El Al 707 at the Athens Drome. Mohammed killed Leon Shirdan and injured a char rider. Greek regime captured both terrorists. Mohammed served less than 4 months of a 17 eld, 5 months condemn. Greek regime freed him when terrorists hijacked a Greek airliner. Israeli commandos ruined a Halfway E Airlines 707 and 13 former aircraft at Beirut, Lebanon on December 28.
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On Revered 29, 1969 Leila Khaled and Salim Issawai of the PFLP hijacked TWA Flying 840. Leila Khaled was the kickoff char to pirate an airliner. They constrained the planer to fly to Damascus. They discredited the breast of the 707 with grenades. Two hostages were held for a month.
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On October 31 TWA Flying 85, was fast-flying from Los Angeles to San Francisco. U.S. Maritime Raffaele Minichiello hijacked this 707 and what should bear been a brusque escape became the longest highjacking in account screening 6,900 miles (11,000 kilometers). The Italian politics refused to deliver Minichiello. At his run the homage was kindly to Minichiello and he served 18 months in poky. On September 6, 1970 the PFLP attempted to pirate 4 jetliners. They successfully hijacked 3 jetliners, including a TWA 707. The over-the-counter 707 was El Al Escape 741. Leila Khaled and Patrick Argüello attempted to highjack the El Al escape. Israeli sky marshals killed Argüello and captured Leila Khaled. When the airplane landed the Israelis handed Leila Khaled ended to British government. Deuce-ace years subsequently the PFLP hijacked BOAC Trajectory 775, a Vickers VC-10. The PFLP ruined the 4 planes they captured at el Khana, Jordan on September 12. Britain aforesaid they would dismission Leila Khaled in change for the dismission of the hostages on September 13. The PFLP actions made Jordan’s Mogul Hussein seem frail. On September 16 Mogul Hussein sent his army into activity against the PFLP. The Jordanian Army decimated the PFLP fighters. Approximately ran into Israel to outflow the Jordanian military. The PFLP released the hostages in substitution for Leila Khaled and another PFLP prisoners.
On December 21, 1971 Everett Leary Holt hijacked a Northwestern Orientate Airlines 707 astern it took off from Chicago. He demanded $300,000 in redeem and a jump. The gang and passengers loose and Holt surrendered.
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This was one of a serial of hijackings in the U.S. where hijackers demanded money and a jump with the absorbed of jump from a jetliner in escape. Two years after an American Airlines 707 was hijacked.
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On Border 8, 1972 a fail ruined a TWA 707 on the background. No one was injured. Person had demanded a $2 1000000 extortion defrayment.
The Palestine Discharge Organisation (PLO) attacked Roma-Fiumicino Aerodrome. They took six hostages at the pole and attacked a Pan Am 707, named “Clipper Celestial”, as it was embarkation passengers. The approach killed 29 passengers and 1 crewman. The terrorists so killed a safety and hijacked a Lufthansa Boeing 737. The hijackers surrendered in Kuwait. Kuwait returned the terrorists to the PLO.
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On January 30, 1974 Pan Am Fledge 806 crashed in Pago Pago, sidesplitting 97. This was American Samoa’s pip air calamity.
A dud aboard TWA Trajectory 841 exploded and it crashed in the Ionian Sea cleanup all 88 masses onboard. A Palestinian constitution claimed acknowledgment for the bombardment. This was the offset known exemplify of a felo-de-se sub on an American airliner.
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The largest issue of fatalities involving a Boeing 707 occurred on Revered 3, 1975. A Majestic Jordanian Airlines 707-321C crashed kill all 188 aboard.
A turkey exploding aboard Heart Eastward Airlines Escape 438 killed 81 mass ended Saudi Arabia on January 1, 1976. On June 27 skyrocket and ordnance battery ruined a Eye Eastward Airlines 720 piece it was parked in Beirut, Lebanon and killed one individual on the aircraft. On September 7 septet disguised men ruined an Air France 707-328 in Corsica.
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Soviet Sukhoi Su-15s attacked Korean Air Lines Escape 902 on April 20, 1978. The Su-15s laid-off two air-air missiles at the Boeing 707-321B. One projectile stricken the jetliner and the speedy decompressing killed two passengers. The Korean Air Lines gang made an exigency blood to 5,000 feet. The Su-15s confused the 707 in the clouds. The 707 made an exigency landing on a frosty lake external Murmansk.
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The outset Boeing 707 stroke attributed to flatus fleece occurred on February 19, 1979. Quebecair Fledge 714 the aircraft, readjustment C-GQBH, dropped 6 meters (20 feet) onto the Angel Lucia-Hewanorra rail. Thither were no fatalities but aircraft was seriously discredited and scrapped after that yr.
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Lead fleece caused, or contributed to, 26 major civic exaltation accidents in the U.S. from 1964 done 1985. These accidents caused 620 deaths and 200 injuries.
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In 1988 the U.S. Federal Airmanship Government mandated all commercial-grade aircraft sustain on-board lead fleece spotting systems installed by 1993. Flatus fleece caused two over-the-counter Boeing 707 accidents. These accidents caused the passing of the 707s but no fatalities.
Tanzanian forces ruined a Ugandan Airlines 707 at Entebbe Aerodrome on April 1, 1979. The fight in Lebanon ruined two 707s at the Beirut drome in Lebanon in 1981. On January 26, 1982 an Alvemda 707 was fast military supplies from Libya to Damascus when it was attacked by a champion shave. The paladin discredited the 707-348C bey mending but the bunch landed the skim safely at Damascus. It’s unnamed if the scrapper was Israeli or Iraqi. Israel launched Process Serenity for Galilee on June 6, 1982. The aircraft at Beirut Outside Airdrome were caught up in the combat and its backwash. On June 12 battery at Beirut Outside Drome ruined a Heart Eastward Airlines 720-023C. Israeli gun ruined pentad 707s and 720s at Beirut Outside Aerodrome on June 16. Israeli Airforce aircraft ruined a Halfway E Airlines 720-047B on Venerable 1. Battery discredited another Midsection Eastward Airlines 720-023 bey fixing at Beirut Outside Aerodrome on June 1, 1983. On Venerable 21, 1985 battery ruined two Centre E Airlines 720s. Bombardment ruined a Heart Eastward Airlines 707 short later it landed at Beirut Outside Aerodrome on January 8, 1987. Thither were no casualties.
On November 29, 1987 N Korean agents Kim Sung il and Kim Hyon Hui put a bombard aboard Korean Air Flying 858. The bombard exploded complete the Andaman Sea, cleanup all 115 aboard. Bahrain government arrested Kim Sung il and Kim Hyon Hui. Patch awaiting interrogatory they took self-annihilation capsules obscure in their cigarettes. Kim Sung il died but Kim Hyon Hui survived. Bahrain extradited Kim Hyon Hui to the Commonwealth of Korea. Kim Hyon Hui became a renown in S Korea when it became populace she was a virginal. The Commonwealth of Korea courtroom sentenced her to expiry in Borderland 1989. The time was ne’er carried out and S Korean Prexy Roh Tae Woo pardoned her in 1998.
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Barrage at Asmara, Ethiopia discredited an Ethiopia Airlines 707-385C on Adjoin 25, 1981.
The end casualty involving a Boeing 707 was on October 21, 2009. Azza Exaltation Escape 2241 crashed presently subsequently pasquinade kill all six crowd members aboard. The finish Boeing 707 fortuity occurred on May 18, 2011. A Boeing 707 oiler operated by Z Air Fueling Services crashed on mockery at Naval Air Post Detail Mugu, California. The resulting firing ruined the aircraft. This 707 was antecedently owned by Pan Am and was discredited by a raspberry hit in 1969. Unconstipated rider servicing for the 707 over when Saha Air, a Tehran based airway, terminated fighting operations in 2013.
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In 1990 Kenneth R. Plunkett, so conductor of search for Airmanship Refuge Establish, gave the boilersuit fortuity grade for the Boeing 707 as 4.7 crashes per billion departures. By that meter Boeing 707s had ceased regularly scheduled overhaul in the Joined States because of noise-abatement regulations. For an aircraft of its era it was a comparatively prophylactic airliner.
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Wienerwurst Sinatra bought an ex-Qantas 707, that was reinforced in 1964. Trick Travolta purchased this 707 in 1998.
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The earnings from the Boeing 707 wasn’t as large as the numbers show. Boeing gambled that if they went out of their way to delight their 707 customers they could micturate greater winnings with posterior aircraft in the 700 serial. The hazard gainful off and Boeing henpecked the jetliner mart for many eld.
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Boeing sold a military oiler edition of the aircraft, the KC-97 Stratofreighter.
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Airplane Clangoring Information,
http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1959/1959-39.htm
, end accessed, 7/11/2018.
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Sheet Smash Information,
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The JAL Trajectory 123 clangoring had 520 fatalities. If the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are counted JAL 123 would be the tierce largest clangor involving a 1 aircraft. On September 11, 2001 American Airlines Flying 11 killed rough 1,700 mass and Joined Airlines Escape 175 killed around 1,000 citizenry.
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Airway Prophylactic.net,
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Airway Refuge.net,
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New York Multiplication, Highjacker of 707 Seized in Chicago, by Joined Pressing External, December 25, 1971,
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Jewish Practical Library, Terrorism: Midriff E Terrorist Incidents (1968-1973), finale accessed 7/14/2018.
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TWA Fledge 841 (1974),
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