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.

* 1995 – The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.

* 1931 – United Airlines begins service ( as Boeing Air Transport ).

* 2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

* 1933 – United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.

Together, these nine airlines had a combined fleet of some 860 aircraft, mostly Boeing from the United States and Airbus from France.

* Unknown time: Senator John McCain honors Mark Bingham, Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick, passengers on board United Airlines Flight 93, who risked their own lives to bring the Boeing 757 down, just to make sure the hijackers: mainly the pilot Ziad Jarrah do not reach their target: the United States Capitol, and kill more civilians.

The aircraft involved, a Boeing 767 – 222, was flying United Airlines ' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Logan International Airport, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles International Airport, in Los Angeles, California.

The United Airlines Flight 175 aircraft was a Boeing 767 – 222 built in 1983, registration number N612UA, with capacity of 168 passengers.

The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757 – 222, was flying United Airlines ' daily scheduled morning domestic flight from Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco International Airport in San Mateo County, California.

* The inaugural flight of the Boeing 777 in commercial service, a United Airlines flight from London Heathrow, landed at Dulles in 1995.

* September 30 – At Paine Field, near Everett Washington in the United States, Boeing officially rolls out its new 747 for the media and the public.

** United Airlines Boeing 737 from Washington National to Chicago Midway crashes short of the runway, killing 43 of 61 passengers and 2 people on the ground.

** United Airlines Flight 227 a Boeing 727-22, crashes short of the runway and catches fire at Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City, Utah.

* October 10 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed near Chesterton, Indiana, by a bomb.

Upon boarding United 175, Shehhi and 4 other hijackers waited 30 minutes into the flight to make their attack, which then allowed Shehhi to take over control as pilot, and at 9: 03 a. m., 17 minutes after Mohamed Atta crashed American 11 into the North Tower, 23-year-old Shehhi crashed the Boeing 767 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

The impact of the Boeing 767 operating as United 175 into the South Tower was seen live on television around the world as it happened.

For example, aeroplanes made by Airbus need to be certified by the FAA to be flown in the United States and vice versa, airplanes made by Boeing need to be approved by the JAA to be flown in the European Union.

In 1996 the United States government selected Lockheed Martin and Boeing to each develop Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles ( EELV ) to compete for launch contracts and provide assured access to space.

In 2005, continued weak commercial demand for EELV launches drove Lockheed Martin and Boeing to propose a joint venture called the United Launch Alliance to monopolize the United States government launch market.

With the Space Race underway and Boeing having " put Seattle on the map " as " an aerospace city ", a major theme of the fair was to show that " the United States was not really ' behind ' the Soviet Union in the realms of science and space.