PROJECT
Aero Limited presents a limited collection of seven conference tables BOEING 707. Following the years of service, this disc has been given a chance to start a new life in the form of a conference table which has turned into a dazzling solitaire in the interior.
MICHAL TOPOR (project author)
PRODUCT
The wheel was at first dipped into a solution to remove the old spray application of the Boeing 707 aluminium disc surface. Each fold, curve or recess are ground and polished manually into mirror-like luster, it is polished on both the outside and inside. This process takes about 200 hours of manual work. The disc is composed of two parts and jointed using 11 lightweight alloy aircraft bolts and 11 nuts and 22 washers. One bolt involves one and a half hours of working time to get rid of dirt.
At first thorough brushing and then fine after-polishing have made the bolt a shining star. Placed atop the wheel is hardened glass being 900 mm in diameter in which an opening is cut out in the centre by waterjet for the Boeing 707 disc hub cap.
Dimensions: height 403 mm, width 595 mm, glass diameter 900 mm, thickness 10 mm
HISTORY
Developed as Boeing’s first jet airliner, the 707 is a swept-wing design with podded engines. Although it was not the first jetliner in service, the 707 was the first to be commercially successful. Dominating passenger air transport in the 1960s and remaining common through the 1970s, the 707 is generally credited with ushering in the Jet Age.[5][6] It established Boeing as one of the largest manufacturers of passenger aircraft, and led to the later series of airliners with “7×7” designations. The later 720, 727, 737, and 757 share elements of the 707’s fuselage design.
The 707 was developed from the Boeing 367-80, a prototype jet first flown in 1954. A larger fuselage cross-section and other modifications resulted in the initial-production 707-120, powered by Pratt & Whitney JT3C turbojet engines, which first flew on December 20, 1957. Pan American World Airways began regular 707 service on October 26, 1958. Later derivatives included the shortened long-range 707-138 and the stretched 707-320, both of which entered service in 1959. A smaller short-range variant, the 720, was introduced in 1960. The 707-420, a version of the stretched 707 with Rolls-Royce Conway turbofans, debuted in 1960, while Pratt & Whitney JT3D turbofans debuted on the 707-120B and 707-320B models in 1961 and 1962, respectively.