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The Boeing 2707 was an American supersonic passenger airliner project during the 1960s. After winning a competition for a government-funded contract to build an American supersonic airliner, Boeing began development at its facilities in Seattle, Washington .
The Boeing 707-138B was a shortened-fuselage, long-range model only sold to Qantas. The Boeing 757-200M was a single-example model built for Royal Nepal Airlines (now called Nepal Airlines). This plane could be converted between passenger and freighter configuration. It was launched by Royal Nepal Airlines in 1986 and delivered two years later.
The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Renton factory in Washington.Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retained the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating but with two underwing Pratt & Whitney JT8D low-bypass turbofan engines.
The Boeing 777X is the latest series of the long-range, wide-body, twin-engine jetliners in the Boeing 777 family from Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The changes for 777X include General Electric GE9X engines, composite wings with folding wingtips , greater cabin width and seating capacity, and technologies from the Boeing 787 .
The first commercial orders for the 707 came on October 13, 1955, [27] when leading global carrier Pan Am committed to 20 Boeing 707s, and 25 Douglas DC-8s, dramatically increasing their passenger capacity (in available revenue passenger seat-miles per hour/per day) over its existing fleet of propeller aircraft. The competition between the 707 ...
Some airlines don’t fly Boeing planes at all — including Spirit and JetBlue.Others, such as Southwest, operate an all-Boeing 737 fleet. Stephanie Walls, an IT project manager who lives in ...
The Boeing 727 design was a compromise among United Airlines, American Airlines, and Eastern Air Lines; each of the three had developed requirements for a jet airliner to serve smaller cities with shorter runways and fewer passengers. [6] United Airlines requested a four-engine aircraft for its flights to high-altitude airports, especially its ...
An American Airlines Boeing 777. Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images American Airlines flight attendants were sent a union memo about leaving passengers on empty planes.