Military 707s Set for Septuagenarian Service

Forgotten over the past 40 years is that the Boeing 707, the world's first commercially successful civil jet transport, actually started life as a private-venture follow-on military jet tanker/transport to the U.S. Air Force's Boeing C-97/KC-97. The new C-135 Stratotankers, which actually had a...

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