Basil Smith: Boeing 707

Artist: Basil Smith
1925 -
Nationality: British
Artwork Year: 1984
Image Size: 7 by 6 inches
Overall Size: 10 by 9 inches
Medium: Mixed Media on Hot Press Illustration Board

The development of the Boeing 707 jet transport in the early 1950s, was to become one of the most important milestones in American aviation history. For the 707 became one of the most successful jet transports of all time. The first test flight of the 707 was in 1954, but the actual prototype of the aircraft was developed some two years earlier. The complete 707 project had a budget of more than twenty million dollars -- at that time the largest budget ever risked by an aircraft manufacturer. The Boeing 707 was built primarily as a tanker-transport and was designed to refuel jet bombers, fighters, and reconnaissance aircraft at or near their operational altitudes and speeds. Under the military designation of KC-135, the 707 is still used today as one of the Armed Forces primary refueling tankers. Pan American Airways was so impressed with the sleek new design that they ordered the first twenty Boeing 707's and put their first jetliner into operation on the New York-London-Paris route ... more for prestige than practical reasons, for the new jet was best suited for continental U.S. flights. A slightly modified version of the 707, the 420 series, was used by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) for many of its overseas flights.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® Trains & Boats & Planes & More Collection Description Card for the Boeing 707.

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