The Boeing 707-138 was smaller in size than the standard models and featured a fuselage that was 10 feet shorter. This modification made the aircraft lighter and more fuel-efficient. Alongside the ...

Boeing’s archives are proprietary ... Early 747 trade studies simply stacked one 707 fuselage atop another, yielding a double-deck jetliner. After heated disputes, engineers settled on an ...

FROM THE TIME THAT BOEING unveiled the 707 in 1954, jetliners have come to look pretty much the same: swept wings, engines hung beneath them in nacelles, an aluminum tube for a fuselage ...