Boeing 707 / American AirlinesBoeing 707 American Airlines airplane model. In August 1952, the company took the bold step of gambling some 16 million dollars to build the prototype of a completely new turbojet powered civil transport. Boeing was sufficiently realistic to appreciate from the very beginning that its large private venture investment, even in 1952 dollars, was nowhere near the amount that would be needed if large scale production of a civil airliner was to become a

Hughes took on the task

The Lockheed Galaxy is one of the world's largest aircraft

the P-12 was developed from prototypes built by the Boeing Airplane Company at their own expense

Length 19 inches

The first Canberra in American colors flew in 1951 with the first American built Canberra or Intruder in 1953

An optional feature on the airplane throughout the years has been a landing gear safety system of Beech design

Nieuport 28 model airplane

or trained pilots

supply depots and troop concentrations with bombs

and Britain before GM's factories switched to the updated FM-2 in the later part of 1943

and in adverse weather throughout the world

the first Learjet 35 took to the air on August 22