The Boeing 707 revolutionised air travel and kicked the jet age into top gear. Commercial flight today owes it everything, Jonathan Glancey writes.

While the 16 JSTARS aircraft in service have been useful in most of America's 21st-century conflicts, the 707 airframes they are based on are not getting any younger.

Onboard the aircraft were a crew of six, 36 passengers, and 30 bags of mail, all set for a 6,724-mile (10,821-km) journey requiring five stops to complete. Crowds of onlookers and newsreel cameras ...

John Travolta is donating his iconic ex-Qantas Boeing 707 to an Australian aviation museum and hopes to be part of the crew to deliver the vintage airliner when it’s ready to make the journey ...

The Boeing 707 revolutionised air travel and kicked the jet age into top gear. Commercial flight today owes it everything, Jonathan Glancey writes. Boeing 707: The aircraft that changed the way we ...