The Boeing 707 was not the first jet airliner and it did not cross the Atlantic first. What it did was make the cheap seat pay. The Dash 80 gamble, the roll over Lake Washington, the arithmetic that finished the piston fleets, and the rule the 707 left behind. Read article
The Boeing 747, the original Jumbo Jet, was the world’s first wide-body airliner: it first flew on 9 February 1969, entered service with Pan Am on 22 January 1970, and by the time the final example was delivered in January 2023, 1,574 had been built and cheap long-haul air travel had become an ordinary fact… Read article
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