William Allen, president of the Boeing Company, served as master of ceremonies for the debut of a new and revolutionary aircraft called the “Dash 80.” It’s hard to overstate the significance ...

William Edward Boeing, the company's founder, was present for the milestone moment. Just two months later, on July 15, 1954, the aircraft-nicknamed the “Dash 80″-would take to the skies for ...

It originally gave an incorrect date for Tex Johnston's Dash-80 flight. For test pilots, those were the days. Like that August day in 1955 when Tex Johnston took Boeing's new Dash-80 out for a ...

“And so that’s really the beginning of what became the ‘Dash 80,’” – or, the prototype for the Boeing 707 jetliner – “because ‘Dash 80’ [is short for] ‘367-80,’” Lombardi ...

Boeing is studying whether an innovative plane ... executives bet the company in the early 1950s on the so-called “Dash 80,” shorthand for the Boeing 376-80. The prototype sold airline ...

The two Boeing Starliner astronauts who have been stranded in space for 80 days will stay for another six months, NASA officials announced Saturday. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are ...