Don Stokes (don@news.daedalus.co.nz) wrote: : In article , : C. Marin Faure wrote: : >I recall awhile back in these newsgroups someone asking why the Boeing 720 : >was called that as opposed to a 707-something. : If Clive Irving is to be believed, the 720 moniker came because United's : Pat Paterson had stated, on choosing DC-8s over 707s, that he would never : buy an aircraft called "707", he just "didn't like the numbers". So when : Patterson came calling looking for a smaller plane, Boeing sold him 720s... But where did the terminal 7 come from? The 247D had it, and the StratoCruiser and StratoLiner, but the big Flying Boat was 314. Was it a surperstition that imposed it on all the jets (including 717) except the 720? -- Gerry