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   From: kenneth.c.finney@boeing.com   
      
   "Bertie the Bunyip"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns9903142E98BD6nunyfjukkinbidness@207.14.116.130...   
   > "Ken Finney"  wrote in   
   > news:JFoqox.8wn@news.boeing.com:   
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   >> "Mxsmanic"  wrote in message   
   >> news:8a9o03909b4cd22g4qhppi32feqvfkje7p@4ax.com...   
   >>> Bertie the Bunyip writes:   
   >>>   
   >>>> All airplanes are aging, you idiot.   
   >>>   
   >>> The 707 has been doing it longer than most.  John Travolta's was   
   >>> built in 1964.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> And the AWACS 707s are going to be in service post 2037.   
   >>   
   >   
   > They'r enot actually 707's. They look a bit like them, but they're   
   > substantially different airplanes.. Boeing's own designation for them   
   > was 717, in fact.   
   >   
   >   
      
   The predecessor of the 707 was the KC-135, the 717.   The AWACS 707s are   
   indeed militarized commercial 707s.   
      
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