In the 1940s, if you were in a hurry and needed to travel across the continental United States, the fastest option was to hop inside one of the many propeller-driven planes of that era. The ...

Top: President Ford and the First Lady disembark the Boeing 707 Air Force One upon their arrival in Austria in 1975. Bottom: President Richard Nixon speaks with military and civilian leaders ...

While the A380 is bigger, it has a slightly lower cruising speed than the 747. The Boeing 707 and DC-8 were capable of flying at impressive speeds and outpaced older quadjets. The Boeing 747 is ...

Eisenhower was the first president to travel on a jet aircraft in 1959. Eisenhower's Boeing 707 Stratoliner, nicknamed "Queenie," featured a section for telecommunications, room for 40 passengers ...

Four Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-5 turbofans with thrust reversers The WC-135 Constant Phoenix is a militarized version of the Boeing 707 commercial airliner which is used to verify compliance of the ...

The RC-135S is a militarized Boeing 707 civilian airliner and is equipped with a sophisticated array of optical and electronic sensors, recording media, and communications equipment, is a national ...