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Aircraft:
Boeing 367-80
- Reg: N70700 full info | N70700 photos
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Serial #:
17158
- Airline: Boeing Company
- Photo Date: Sep 19, 2019
- Uploaded: Jun 19, 2020
- Other Location - NASM Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center, USA - Virgina
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Del/08/21/1954 The Boeing 367-80, known simply as the Dash 80, is an American quadjet prototype aircraft built by Boeing to demonstrate the advantages of jet propulsion for commercial aviation. It served as basis for the design of the KC-135 tanker and the 707 airliner. The Dash 80 first flew in 1954, less than two years from project launch. Its US$16 million cost (equivalent to $152 million today) was an enormous risk for Boeing, which at the time had no committed customers. Only one example was built, As part of the Dash 80's demonstration program, Bill Allen invited representatives of the Aircraft Industries Association (AIA) and International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the Seattle's 1955 Seafair and Gold Cup Hydroplane Races held on Lake Washington on August 6, 1955. The Dash 80 was scheduled to perform a simple flyover, but Boeing test pilot Alvin "Tex" Johnston instead performed two barrel rolls to show off the jet airliner. The next day, Allen summoned Johnston to his office and told him not to perform such a maneuver again, to which Johnston replied that he was simply "selling airplanes" and asserted that doing so was completely safe. Boeing Chief Test Pilot John Cashman stated that just before he piloted the maiden flight of the Boeing 777 on June 12, 1994, his last instructions from then-Boeing President Phil Condit were "No rolls.Preserved at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.
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Del/08/21/1954 The Boeing 367-80, known simply as the Dash 80, is an American quadjet prototype aircraft built by Boeing to demonstrate the advantages of jet propulsion for commercial aviation. It served as basis for the design of the KC-135 tanker and the 707 airliner. The Dash 80 first flew in 1954, less than two years from project launch. Its US$16 million cost (equivalent to $152 million today) was an enormous risk for Boeing, which at the time had no committed customers. Only one example was built, As part of the Dash 80's demonstration program, Bill Allen invited representatives of the Aircraft Industries Association (AIA) and International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the Seattle's 1955 Seafair and Gold Cup Hydroplane Races held on Lake Washington on August 6, 1955. The Dash 80 was scheduled to perform a simple flyover, but Boeing test pilot Alvin "Tex" Johnston instead performed two barrel rolls to show off the jet airliner. The next day, Allen summoned Johnston to his office and told him not to perform such a maneuver again, to which Johnston replied that he was simply "selling airplanes" and asserted that doing so was completely safe. Boeing Chief Test Pilot John Cashman stated that just before he piloted the maiden flight of the Boeing 777 on June 12, 1994, his last instructions from then-Boeing President Phil Condit were "No rolls.Preserved at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.Camera
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- Reg: N70700 full info | N70700 photos
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Aircraft:
Boeing 367-80
- Airline: Boeing Company
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Serial #:
17158
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Other Location - NASM Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center
- USA - Virgina
