http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?airlinesearch=Saha%20Air&distinct_entry=true

That is the very last passenger carrying 707 left around, and soon enough it will go the way of her contemporaries into the museums. Just thought I should share this bit of aviation history with you folks.

Nice photos, that brought back great memories for me, and it is sad to think she's the last in such faithful passenger service. From experiences as a kid aboard mideastern airliners, I fondly remember the views from 707s, like looking down along that wing at beautiful Beirut on approach, as in the photo you linked of Tehran. There's something much more intrepid and graceful about the earlier airliners as compared to today's more efficient twins, and I miss them very much. At least 747s still grace the sky. Back when big was beautiful in aviation, it was also a completely different time so far as service and accessibility, too: Friendly crew, even cockpit visits in cruise.

The glamorous Jet Age has sadly lost much of its lustre for me, with high-density seating, social tenseness, and "security". At least the smaller classic planes do affordably fly on, which I enjoy to no end.

MEA eh hype? Well personally I never flew on a 707, or DC-8, or other such classics. But I can tell they were something special, loud engines, fuel efficiency nothing but a guffaw in the minds of the designers, a sort of entrepreneurial spirit of the era. I personally think that aviation is going to go through a third wave of greatness, the A-380 7e7 era. It’s a sad but inevitable end too one of aviations true giants.

Wasn't the 707 the jet one of the most successful passenger jets in history?
http://www.aviation-history.com/boeing/707.html
yes this is truly the end of a era in aviation history.

Great photos . . . I remember the 707s :-/

Having read Edward Rickenbacker's autobiography, care for the passenger seems to have been forgotten in the hunt for more profit...

Rickenbacker saw the introduction of the 707 and, if I recall, liked the plane.

Speaking of eras in aviation, spaceshipone flies this month. Sub orbital flight, people!