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Old 8th Jun 2021, 15:04
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Originally Posted by WHBM
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The Fate of Canadian Pacific Airlines' Boeing 707 by Henry Tenby | Henry Tenby - Classic Airline DVDs / Entrepreneur / and more

Quite surprised that the sister aircraft with PWA had to stop between Vancouver and London. These early Qantas 707s were a shortened version for extra range, and when refitted with fan engines produced a pretty capable aircraft. I went into Sondrestrom on Wardair's 727, but never on their 707-320Cs, same engines, larger airframe. Pretty sure Laker used to do Gatwick to LAX with their -138Bs.
LGW-LAX was tight on the BCAL 320Cs. We occasionally had to drop into Las Vegas or Salt Lake or Edmonton. Not a hope in 138B.
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