This Day in Aviation History

July 15th, 1954
The first flight of the Boeing 387-80. or ‘Dash 80’, the prototype for the 707 airliner and KC-135 tanker series. Production of 707-based airframes lasts into the 1990s.

Wikipedia, Boeing 367-80:   http://bit.ly/1p4b0ae

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