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2012-07-15, 10:21 AM
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Boeing 707 Prototype Makes First Test Flight, First USSR-US Service Takes Off: July 15 in Aviation History (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nycaviation/~3/IYblxXyaRfI/)

1916: A timber merchant named William E. Boeing and a US Navy engineer named George Conrad Westervelt form a new aircraft company called the Pacific Aero Products Company. A year later it would be renamed Boeing Airplane Company. 1923: Dobrolyot, a Soviet state airline and predecessor of today’s Aeroflot, launches its first scheduled domestic service, [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nycaviation/~4/IYblxXyaRfI
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