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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

21st Feb 2021, 11:27

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BOAC B707-436 Early LAX operations

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Posted By WHBM

The pioneer 707-120s and 720s sold well,...

The pioneer 707-120s and 720s sold well, especially to the US trunk airlines, but the JT3C turbojet engines were almost immediately outclassed. Boeing introduced a significant modification to refit...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

3rd Jul 2009, 21:11

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BOAC B707-436 Early LAX operations

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Posted By WHBM

BOAC got into Transatlantic charters (and to a...

BOAC got into Transatlantic charters (and to a lesser extent to the Far East) when the 747s came along and they were left with surplus 707 capacity, which ws reconfigured to Economy only. Pan Am and...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

30th Jun 2009, 13:47

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BOAC B707-436 Early LAX operations

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Posted By WHBM

I wonder at what time. A 1964 El Al...

I wonder at what time.

A 1964 El Al timetable I have here does not show any 707 non-stops, everything both ways 6-days-a-week operated through London/Paris. The next year, 1965, El Al got their...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

30th Jun 2009, 07:24

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BOAC B707-436 Early LAX operations

Views: 14,348

Posted By WHBM

Timetable effective October 1 1962 Westbound...

Timetable effective October 1 1962

Westbound (with unspecified tech stop) :

http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/ba62/ba62-06.jpg

Eastbound (nonstop) :
...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

28th Jun 2009, 19:39

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BOAC B707-436 Early LAX operations

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Posted By WHBM

Correct. Saturn ordered three 707-379C for...

Correct. Saturn ordered three 707-379C for delivery in Spring 1968 as N761U-3U. One went to straight Ethiopian, the second to BOAC, and the third hung around Seattle in Saturn colours for some months...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

26th Jun 2009, 08:54

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BOAC B707-436 Early LAX operations

Views: 14,348

Posted By WHBM

Only right at the end of the 707's life at BOAC...

Only right at the end of the 707's life at BOAC did they finally go for the developed 707-320B for passenger service. When they got the route through Moscow to Tokyo in 1970 they bought two such...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

25th Jun 2009, 10:32

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BOAC B707-436 Early LAX operations

Views: 14,348

Posted By WHBM

My hunch (only) wuld be that BOAC didn't have the...

My hunch (only) wuld be that BOAC didn't have the aircraft to do it. The 707-436s must have been pushed, either through reducing their commercial load or by making fuel stops, while once the 707-320B...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

18th Jun 2009, 17:55

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BOAC B707-436 Early LAX operations

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Posted By WHBM

Actually the 747 did not solve the problem for BA...

Actually the 747 did not solve the problem for BA until their 747-200s came along some 8 years after the original fleet. It was strange, for TWA operated 747-100s London to LAX without problem, but...

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