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Boeing has rolled out the 1,010th and last 707 airframe, an E-3D Sentry AEW.1 AWACS aircraft for the R AF. The prototype Boeing jet transport, the 367-80, first flew on 15 July 1954. The first 747 flew m late 1957, with launch customer Pan American inaugurating transatlantic 707 services n 2£! October 1958, with the intercontinental-320 variants going on to truly open up the world skies for international travel. Bothcommercial and military variants remain in service in considerable numbers, with E-3Sentrys now operated by the USAF, Saudi Arabia France UK and N-'!-TO. The latest military 707 variant, the E-8 J-STARS, proved itself in the Gulf War alongside the E-3 Sentrys. The full story on Boeing's 707 line was profiled in our April, May and June issues
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Soviets Sign New Western Engine Deals:
Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney have signed deals to supply engines to power the Tupolev Tu-204 and Byushin Il-96 airliners, respectively.
Rolls-Royce has concluded an agreement to supply RB. 211-535F engines for the Tupolev Tu-204 medium range twinjet. The RB. 211 will therefore be the first Wester engine to power a Soviet airliner, with the first engines to be supplied in March 1992 and the RB. 211 powered Tu-204 to make its debut at next year’s Famborough. An engine mock-up was delivered to Tupolev in December last year, and it has been determined that the only major alteration required is to adapt the RB. 211’s accessory system to drive two hydraulic pumps instead of one pump as in the externally similar Boeing 757.
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