To: EnquiringMind
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/707family/.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_707.
First commercial flight was on October 26, 1958.
The Dash 80 ( 367-80 prototype ) Udvar Hazy building at the Air& Space Museum in Virgina near Dulles Airport.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/udvarhazy/artifacts_air.cfm#D
I think some people complained that the 707 make to much black smoke taking off so Boeing had to devise some way for the engines to burn cleaner so they found a way to inject water into the engines and it burned cleaner.
To: Prophet in the wilderness
I think some people complained that the 707 make to much black smoke taking off so Boeing had to devise some way for the engines to burn cleaner so they found a way to inject water into the engines and it burned cleaner. Water injection was used on some of the first-generation commercial jets as a way to provide extra power for takeoff from high, hot, and/or short runways. It definitely did not make anything burn cleaner; just the opposite:
![](http://www.airliners.net/photos/small/8/6/8/541868.jpg)
I doubt Travolta's 707 still has such a system operational, if it ever did.
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04/04/2007 8:19:13 PM PDT by
Turbopilot
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