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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.
136 posted on 04/04/2007 5:28:56 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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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:

I doubt Travolta's 707 still has such a system operational, if it ever did.

152 posted on 04/04/2007 8:19:13 PM PDT by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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