Posts Tagged ‘Boeing 707’
 

 

On This Day in Aviation History: January 30th

United’s 747SP “Friendship One” sets an around-the-world record, the crashes of Kenya Airlines 43 and Pan Am 806, Orville Wright passes away, and more...
by NYCAviation Staff

 
 
This B-47 Stratojet and its JATO bottles coughs its way into the sky, giving the runway some second-hand smoke.

March 11th in Aviation History: Air Force Jet Nearly Nukes Georgia Coast

China's first privately owned airline takes off while Canadian airline JetsGo stops going, Japan gets their first 767 AWACS, a B-47 jettisons a nuke, and more...
by NYCAviation Staff

 
 
British Airways and Iberia tails.

Today in Aviation History: April 8th

British Airways and Iberia formally combine their businesses, an engine explodes and falls off of a BOAC Boeing 707 near Heathrow, a South African de Havilland Comet crashes in the Mediterranean, and more...
by NYCAviation Staff
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On This Day in Aviation History: December 20th

A Continental 737 slides off the runway and burns at Denver, the first flight of the Delta Dagger, the first flight over Antarctica, and more...
by Phil Derner Jr.

 
 

On This Day in Aviation History: January 24th

A bomb kills dozens at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow, the Department of Homeland Security is born, a B-52 crashes and drops two nuclear bombs on North Carolina, and more...
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