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Old 15th Jun 2009, 12:17
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Saab Dastard
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Given the 707's range was about 3500 - 3750 miles and the distance from LHR to LAX is 5400 miles, there would have had to have been a re-fuelling stop.

Montreal or Toronto would make sense (from a great circle perspective), if not one of the US eastern seaboard airports.

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