I suggested a new forum and Pete told me to try it first to see if it works.

Here is the idea:
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Ok so the first one will be the Boeing 707 tell everything you know freely

OK...the KC135 is NOT a military version of the 707. The dash 80 was a prototype aircraft that Boeing was making with the hope the military would buy it. The 707 is actualy bigger than the 135.  The E-3 AWACS is in fact a modified 707.
The reason I know this is that me and a friend had a friendly discussion with a boom operator on a KC-135. He insisted the plane was a 707 that was converted. It took a 135 pilot to shove a book into the kids face to prove him wrong

I think that this is a great idea. First one can get a load of info about a plane, and maybe staighten out misinformation.
Chris

There are two military version of the offspring of the Dash 80.

First is the workhorse C-135 (better known in it's KC-135 version). This is a slightly smaller an narrower version that is more in keeping with the original.

The second version is the C-137 (better known as the B707). The old AF One was a VC-137 and the Canadian Armed Forces planes were all CC-137's.

The extra fuselage width allowed for two extra seats and was made at the request of teh airlines.

Wasn't the original Airforce One a 707? I'm not sure as at my age most of the braincells are dead or in hiding!

Ozzy ???

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I don't have alot of specific info on particular planes (but each day the file gets larger), thanks to this forum and the minds herein.
A good idea BR. Hope to see the Forum sub-heading.

A simple fact as far as I know is the 707 was the first commercial jetliner ever. (Courtesy of the History Channel which I could not do without. Sometimes the simple facts are more interesting, and important than the technical and involved ones..............lol )

Also courtesy of the History Channel. There was definitely an Air Force One before the 707. I recall seeing both Truman and Ike alighting from one in the Special Doco about the same plane and its' history.
(I'm not sure it was named Air Force One but it was a plane specially reserved for Presidential use only). 

Yes the comet was the firs commercial jet liner and its crashes were caused by stress in the fuselage because of its big windows and pressurization. I think the 707 was the first presidential airplane that was a flying white house and called Air Force One, also there is the first prototype that is in a museum somewhere called the Dash 80.
If I’m not wrong, it is the most tested aircraft in the world it first rolled out on May 14/1954. Boeing would not exist today if the 707 wasn’t successful because the company funded the project with everything they’ve got. I’m not sure but I think Boeing was trying to reach the commercial market with a jet a/c although there was a trauma left by the comet, but the military asked for a jet tanker because refueling jet fighters and bombers with the old piston a/c was dangerous and the liked the 707 and asked for a tanker version.
I know this stuff because I used to watch a program named wings on the Discovery Channel it was old but very good.

I like the idea of an aircraft theme every month!