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User currently offlineLeoDF From Mexico, joined Aug 1999, 359 posts, RR: 6
Posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 460 times:

I was thinking today that Boeing started a fashion on aviation, since they used, I THINK, the first ever 3 number code on a plane... 707. From there, Airbus, Fairchild and Embraer have also used them. Is this coincidence or manufacturers liked what Boeing did??

Why didn't McDonnell Douglas or others did so??

A. De Leo W.


Lloyd Aereo Boliviano
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User currently offlineFlagshipAZ From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3419 posts, RR: 15
Reply 1, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 439 times:

Actually Douglas was in the commercial aviation business before Boeing. True, Boeing had the 247, which really help started the industry along with the Ford Trimotor...Douglas had a plane called the Dolphin first. Fast forward to the jet age, Douglas merely continue the 'DC' series after the DC-7 to the DC-8. So really the Boeing 707 was a first for them. Hope this make some sort of sense. Regards.


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User currently offlineHeavymetal From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 427 times:

As I recall, 707 was: 7(# of Boeing Division, as opposed to military, space, rotary, etc) 07 (product number from the division).

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