2006-10-10 05:48:26 · 9 answers · asked by varu 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
the 707 was a four engine commercial plane that was in wide use during the 60's and 70's...it was only one of the models that boeing produced on the market so there are other numbers for boeing planes so you are mistaken for concluding that only the 707 is the number for all its planes
2006-10-13 22:32:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The boeing model number "707" is not for marketing purposes or because it was just a number that people like, and it doesn't have anything to do with the size of the engines.
Like most large engineering companies, Boeing has a vast engineering and drafting department. Each new project that is started in the engineering department has a project number. In the 1930s, for example, Boeing built a revolutionary streamlined twin engine airliner called the Model 247; that is, it was the Boeing 247, in the same way today's airliners are Boeing 707s, 727s, 737s, 747s, and so on.
The famous World War 2 bomber that the Army Air Corps called the B-17 was actually project number 299, and it was called the Boeing 299 Bomber until it was accepted by the government.
After the war, Boeing was famous for the 377 airliner, called the "stratocruiser." And so on.
The 707 was simply the project number for the aircraft design, and the same is true for the other Boeing airliners of today.
Note that the project number remained the same even if a given design was never built or never put into production. Thus there are many Boeing numbers that are only labels on file folders and never flew.
2006-10-10 16:11:25 · answer #2 · answered by aviophage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Boeing 707 was a four engined commercial passenger jet airliner developed by Boeing in the early 1950s. Although it was not the first commercial jet in service (that distinction belongs to the De Havilland Comet), it was the first to be commercially successful[citation needed], and is credited by many as ushering in the Jet Age, as well as being the first of Boeing's 7X7 range of airliners. Boeing delivered 1,010 Boeing 707s. In August 2006 a total of 68 Boeing 707 aircraft (all variants) remain in airline service.[1]
The 707's name is most commonly spoken as "Seven Oh Seven".
2006-10-10 06:14:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Boeing's founders liked the number. All their planes have the number seven on it from the B-17 and on. Even the B-52 if you add them on 5+2=7 Weird huh?
The new up and coming is the 787. After that they will have only one more aircraft to launch (797) before they run out of numbers.
2006-10-10 14:04:06 · answer #4 · answered by Manny L 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are lots of boeing planes with lots of different numbers.
2006-10-10 05:51:46 · answer #5 · answered by capu 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The company got to pick whatever number or name it wanted, for marketing purposes. It's a nice-sounding, reassuring number, and it's much bigger, and different from, the numbers of the bombers that used to be their main business.
2006-10-10 05:56:35 · answer #6 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi. Try this link : http://www.einsteins-emporium.com/technology/aviation/airliners/aab00.htm
2006-10-10 06:37:20 · answer #7 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are wrong there are several other no's as 787,747 the no simply represent the size in what respect i dont know
2006-10-10 05:53:56 · answer #8 · answered by nikhilesh m 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
thats how big the engine is.
its like the model no.
its like why does my shirt tag have an 'M' on it?
2006-10-10 05:56:27 · answer #9 · answered by fernx24 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋