XPost: rec.aviation.student, alt.usenet.kooks, alt.religion.asatru   
   XPost: rec.aviation.piloting   
   From: lefty133@bellsouth.net   
      
   > >>> 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.   
   >   
   >   
   That's interesting, since the current Boeing redition of the DC-9/MD-80 is   
   also designated as 717.   
      
   There was also a Boeing 720, in the bad-old-days, but I didn't bother to   
   look any of this up...   
      
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