Boeing was ready with the first production variant of the Boeing 707. It took off for the first time on December 20, 1957, ...

The 124 passengers on Varig Airlines flight 820 to Paris struggled with this exact dilemma in 1973. Why? Likely because a ...

While Concordes operated by British Airways and Air France became the airplane of choice for trans-Atlantic travel – albeit ...

With the tragic accident of Air India Flight 171 at Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025, the focus has fallen on safety and ...

As the two astronauts selected for the Starliner's first crewed flight test, Wilmore and Williams launched June 5, 2024, on a mission to test Boeing's vehicle on behalf of NASA. The Starliner instead ...

But its long watch is at last coming to an end. The AWACS uses a positively ancient airframe, the Boeing 707, which first flew in 1957 and no longer even flies commercially.

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 ...

Boeing 707 was the first successful commercial jetliner. The mid-to-long range jet manufactured by Boeing Company created ripples across the commercial aviation market. It entered commercial service ...

At 12:30pm PST, N708PA took off on the Boeing 707’s first flight. However, poor weather soon set in, and they landed just 7 ...

DALLAS — Today, in 1957, the original 707-120, developed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes as its first jetliner, performed its maiden flight. Boeing derived the 707-120 from the Boeing 367-80 prototype ...

The first Boeing 747 rolled out of the Everett Plant (the world's largest building by volume) on September 30, 1968. Its first flight took place on February 9, 1969. The 747 entered service on Pan ...