Transport & space · 1958

Boeing 707

The first commercially dominant jetliner makes intercontinental air travel routine.

Pan Am flew the first 707 service from New York to Paris in October 1958. Seating up to about 180 passengers at 950 km/h, it made jet travel economical. Over 1,000 were built, launching the Jet Age of mass tourism.

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Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

Jet airliner 1952

What it led to 1

Boeing 747 1969

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Transatlantic crossing time Latest: 3.5 hours (1976) Source: Wikipedia: Transatlantic crossing, duration list; Geography of Transport Systems: liner transatlantic crossing times

US air passenger traffic, 1930-1993 Latest: 772B passenger-km (1993) Source: Our World in Data