Fascinating glimpse into the past

Fabulous photos sonnenflieger. Thank you so much.

Grey Area, stop being so blunt and try being proactive. Delete your temp internet files an reload this page.

I can see them just fine, Hans. Thank you very much. I love the 707.

Don’t they show? Red crosses? I’ve put them on my ISP’s server just like my signature picture, is that one also invisible?

I can see them all, a nice selection too.

since you are showing 707s, here’s another one, a MEA.
MEA’s 707s operated till 1997 !!!

Errrrr………… photos?

What photos?

Don’t they show? Red crosses? I’ve put them on my ISP’s server just like my signature picture, is that one also invisible?

Errrrr………… photos?

What photos?

Aaah…. how beautiful! Finally an excuse to post some rare photos of this well-shaped lady has come up! Let’s travel back in time to the tunes of Isn’t she lovely by Stevie Wonder (a song written about the 707 😉 )…

Let’s start with the early ones… an American Airlines 707-123B
taking off somewhere, with a National 727 behind. Bob Polaneczy photo.

Does anyone remember the movie Skyjacked with Charlton Heston
as the captain of a hijacked 707? A World Airways 707-320C was used for
the movie and the in-flight photo is very impressive!

Across the pond, BOAC was an early customer and took great pride in
operating the “Rolls Royce 707” powered by Conway turbojets…

A few years later, BOAC had become British Airways and the -336 series
of 707s was also operated. Here seen at Heathrow’s terminal 3 with a
colleague from Kuwait Airways in the foreground!

Another 707 operator was British Eagle, whose livery was gorgeous in my opinion…

For many years, Olympic Airways of Greece was a 707 airline with beautifully painted aircraft.

It became popular with airlines in the Middle East – almost all national carriers operated 707s at one time. Iraqi Airways flew 707s until 1991 when their fleet was grounded. To this day, the aircraft are still stored in Amman, Jordan…

Up north again – Lufthansa operated 707s from 1960 till 1984. For a shorter while, the smaller brother 720 was part of Lufthansa’s fleet. Seen here is a 720-030B at Hamburg in the very early 60’s.

How can you not love the 707 when there are photos like these? A publicity photo showing a 707-330B during boarding at Hamburg, sometime in the mid-60’s. Photo from Lufthansa’s historical photo gallery.

Take-off from Frankfurt in 1982, maybe to Africa or America. The 707 was a real workhorse for Lufthansa, with the last examples going to Condor in 1984 and being finally retired in 1985…

…but behind the scenes, the 707 is still in Lufthansa’s fleet! Or at least in simulator form. This 1969 full flight simulator is still in service at Lufthansa Flight Training in Frankfurt!

How’s this for a Flight Engineer’s Station? This is what real cockpits look like!

35 years old and still doing very well…

…and this is your First Officer, Sonnenflieger, on a ride of his lifetime. The 707 is wonderful to fly, really wonderful…

Hope you enjoyed the ride as well! All photos were found on my hard disk and have been collected over the years from forgotten sources.

Four engines make more noise –

Your Sonnenflieger

No overhead bins in the middle, what were they thinking!?!? Where are the oxygen masks stowed? It does make the interior look absolutely enourmous and open, however. Is the IL-96 also void of middle overhead bins?

Nice pictures – I would have loved to have flown on a 707 though the possibility of doing so these days is almost zero. Noticed a new photo on A.net of another favourite cabin of mine, the cavernous IL86, plus a couple of older shots here and here.

Yeah, brings back memories to me, i’ve flown many miles in 707’s

Love the 707’s, Sandy. I was at Airliners 2004 @ LAX today looking through old TWA timetables hoping to find out if I flew on a TW 707 back in 1976. Alas, they didn’t have the June-Aug ’76 one available so the mystery remains.