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This is a good shot illustrating a few things about the airplane. It really is low to the ground, though bigger than the 727 and 737. Notice the long, slim engines. Oh, and I forgot to mention something: when you see engines like that, long and slim ones, those are turbojets, which work differently from turbofans. Turbojets produce a lot of power, but all the air being sped through the engine is used to ignite the fuel. Turbofans are more fuel efficient, since only part of the air is used to burn the fuel. The rest is accelerated through turbines and spit out.
Oh, I just thought this was interesting and I had a question about it: was Aerocondor Columbia an airline from Columbia? This picture was taken in 1976, if that helps any in figuring that out...
This is a pretty good shot to show you how the 707 fuselage is similar to the 727 and 737 fuselages. You know how you can figure that out? Look very closely at the windows on the cockpit. There are two smaller windows right above them. Now look at the pictures of the 727 and 737 cockpits, and you'll see the same two windows. That's another way you can tell this is a 707-the small windows. Remember, there are two of them; another plane built at the same time as the 707, the DC-8, has one small window on each side of the cockpit window.
This is a 707-300. The U.S. Air Force uses the 707 a lot. It was the Air Force One aircraft before the 747-200 currently in use; it's a tanker, or aerial refueling aircraft, electronic intellegence, etc. Here is an AWACS (*Airborne Warning And Control System*) aircraft, which keeps an eye on all aircraft in a certain part of the sky. It's a kind of look out at 30,000 ft.
Yay! I was looking for an Avianca plane! I just put this here because of the airline :)
