Boeing 707 is 60
Franklin Roosevelt called Dec 7, 1941 - a Day of Infamy.
July 15, 1954, was a Day of Monumental Change. Aviation change, that is. World change. Today is the Anniversary of that event - an event that changed the course of commercial aviation, the world, and certainly of the Boeing Airplane Company.
It is the 60th Anniversary of the First Flight of the 707 Prototype - the Dash 80. The product of a bunch of engineers who probably lived in Bellevue, Washington, wore wing-tipped shoes with argyle socks , white shirts with pocket protectors, and carried K & E slipsticks (slide rules.) They produced a machine that - on a dozen levels - changed the world.
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