and Pan Am operated the first commercial flight on October 26, 1958, when its Boeing 707 named "Clipper America" took off from New York's Idlewild Airport, and landed at Paris Le Bourget Airport 8 ...

the Boeing 707, which in 1983 flew a special reenactment of the first Pan Am transatlantic flight. Ward Wallau and Milan Micich operate Tokens & Icons, a company that turns pieces of sentimental ...

Luxury air travel is still alive and well in the first-class cabins of the ... it was overtaken by the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8 as the jet-powered workhorses of the airline industry.

In 1972 Boeing began studies to develop an airliner that would replace early jets like the 707 and Douglas DC-8 ... a very different 737 made its first flight­, with engines underneath the ...

EBL, the hop from Sydney to Christchurch on 10 April, 1965, was the first ever commercial flight across the Tasman with a jet ...

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