From International Airport in Los Angeles to International Airport in Houston, as the great four-jet Boeing 707 flies, is a routine five hours and 25 minutes, including stopovers at Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio.

* 1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.

By the 1950s, the development of civil jets grew, beginning with the de Havilland Comet, though the first widely-used passenger jet was the Boeing 707, because it was much more economical than other planes at the time.

* 1963 – Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing all 81 people on board.

* 1989 – An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Pico Alto mountain in the island of Santa Maria in the Azores, killing 144.

* 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130.

* 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.

* 1973 – A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.

* 1954 – First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.

* 1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

In 1967, a Boeing 707, capable of carrying 160 passengers was introduced on the Paris-Mauritius line, decreasing the travel time to 18 hours.

* 1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.

* 1976 – A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 ( 97, mostly children, killed on the ground ).

The official certified U. S. Open Skies aircraft is the OC-135B Open Skies ( a military version of the Boeing 707 ).

The museum annex houses an Air France Concorde ; the Enola Gay B-29 ; the Space Shuttle Discovery ; the Boeing 367 – 80, which was the prototype of the Boeing 707 ; the SR-71 ; and other famous aerospace artifacts, particularly those too large for the main building on the National Mall.

** The 1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia kills all six on board.

* December 20 – The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time.

** A Sabena Boeing 707 crashes near Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches.

** An American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport, after a rudder malfunction causes an uncontrolled roll, resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft, with the loss of all life on board.

* June 3 – Air France Flight 007, a Boeing 707, crashes on take-off at Orly Airport in Paris ; 130 of 132 people on board are killed, 2 flight attendants survive.

* June 22 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board.

** A Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from Jeddah crashes in Kano, Nigeria ; 176 people are killed.

* May 14 – The Boeing 707 is released after about two years of development.

Willow Run, General Electric's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse, the Pentagon, Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, the new automobile assembly plants everywhere -- none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass rapid transit.

Between 1942 and 1945, Wyler, who became a United States citizen in 1928, served as a major in the United States Army Air Forces and directed two documentaries: The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress ( 1944 ), the story of a Boeing B-17 and its U. S. Army Air Force crew, and Thunderbolt!

Selected on 27 April 1975, the installation served as one of four main U. S. Vietnamese Refugee Processing Centers operated by the Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees, where base personnel housed and processed more than 10, 000 Southeast Asian refugees, the first 374 of which arrived on board a Northwest Orient Boeing 747 on 4 May 1975.

On 23 July, RJ saw the introduction of cargo flights, Damascus being the first destination served from Amman, using a Boeing 737.

It is served by daily twin turbo-prop airline service to Anchorage by PenAir, Era Alaska, and Everts Air Cargo ( EvertsAir. com ), and Boeing 737 all-cargo service on Northern Air Cargo, as well as daily flights to Nome and outlying villages by Bering Air, Alaska Transportation Service ( freight only ), and Era Aviation, now known as Era Alaska and parent company of Era Aviation, Hageland Aviation Services, Frontier Flying Service, and Arctic Circle Air, with the Unalakleet-based Era operations being the subject of The Discovery Channel's 2011 series " Flying Wild Alaska.

Air Malta started operations, with two wet leased Boeing 720Bs that served Rome, Tripoli, London, Manchester, Frankfurt and Paris from Malta's airport.

The following destinations were served on a scheduled basis in 1964, using Douglas DC-3, DC-6 or Boeing B-17G ( the latter being military cargo aircraft, which could also accommodate passengers ).

During World War II, he served in the Mediterranean Theater as a radio operator / gunner on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group ( Heavy ) of the Fifteenth Air Force.

Other jet airlines that served Fresno in the past included Pacific Air Lines with Boeing 727-100s, Hughes Airwest ( previously Air West ) with Douglas DC-9-10s and DC-9-30s, Pacific Southwest Airlines ( PSA ) with Boeing 727-100, 727-200, 737-200 and McDonnell Douglas MD 80s, Western Airlines with Boeing 727-200, 737-200 and 737-300 service, Delta Airlines with Boeing 727-200 and 737-300 aircraft, Continental Airlines with Boeing 737-200 and 737-300 flights, Air Cal with Boeing 737-200 service and Pacific Express with British Aircraft Corp. BAC One-Eleven jets.

Southwest Airways and its successors including Pacific Air Lines and Hughes Airwest ( which previously operated as Air West ) served the airport from 1956 until 1979, and Continental appeared with Boeing 737 service to Denver for a year or so in 1987-88.

United previously served Eugene with Boeing 727-100 and 727-200 jetliners as well.

While the airport served the domestic market well, the airport suffered from low international passenger numbers and a runway that was too short for a fully laden Boeing 747 to take off.

Green is mostly served by regional aircraft such as CRJ's and ERJ's, as well as smaller mainline aircraft such as Boeing 737's and MD-88's.

It operated year-round scheduled services to secondary and tertiary destinations that could not be viably served with Pan Am's Tegel-based " mainline " fleet of Boeing 727-200s and Airbus A310s.

In addition, the airline served the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport ( BUR, now known as Bob Hope Airport ) in the Los Angeles area with nonstop Boeing 737-700 service to and from Honolulu.

" Although initially interested in developing a suppression of enemy air defence variant of Meteor as a successor to HARM, Boeing has become less and less an active partner as development has progressed, possibly having served their political purpose.

The CRJ's range is enough to fill mid-range routes as well, routes previously served by larger aircraft such as the Boeing 737 and DC-9.

Until 2002, Santa Barbara Airport was on the airline route between San Francisco and Los Angeles, served by Southwest Airways and its successors including Pacific Air Lines and Hughes Air West ( formerly known as Air West ) as well as by United Airlines, which operated Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 jet aircraft on these routes.