While we can thank the British for taking us into the jet age with their four-engine De Havilland Comet, Boeing firmly put its mark on jet travel when Pan American Airways introduced the Boeing 707 in 1958. The long-range jetliner can be credited with shrinking the world when it was deployed on transatlantic and transpacific routes. Yet, there remained a void in the marketplace for a jet aircraft for nearer-to-home travel.
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