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    … subsequently ordered 29 jet tanker KC-135s (the military model). Boeing continued developing the passenger version of the Dash 80, and in 1955 Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) ordered 20 Boeing 707s. At the same time, however, it also ordered 25 Douglas DC-8s, a similar jet airliner being developed by…

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