The 5 Greatest Quadjets Of All Time

The grace and power of jetliners with four roaring engines are icons of our world's advances in civil aviation since the beginning of the Jet Age. Soaring at 600 miles per hour and faster, quadjets redefined glamour, broke down range barriers, and even reduced airfare before twinjets took center stage. Their oversized airframes demanded that airports extend runways, authorities expand their rulebooks – to put it simply, quadjets raised the bar of air travel like nothing before. Simple Flying pays homage to the five machines that best exemplify that legacy in this roundup. Each jet aircraft embodies a different chapter…