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On September 30, 1968, 50 years ago today, the very first Boeing 747 was rolled out of Boeing’s new factory built specifically for it. It would not fly until February of the following year, but what everyone who worked on it didn’t know was that the 747 would change air travel perm...
Boeing, an American plane maker, was asked by Pan Am, a big airline in the United States, to build a large passenger plane.Even before the first 747 was ready for testing, 26airlines had ordered the planes. The first test flight was done in 1969, and it was fabulous. The first ...
Boeing, an American plane maker, was asked by Pan Am, a big airline in the United States, to build a large passenger plane.Even before the first 747 was ready for testing, 26airlines had ordered the planes. The first test flight was done in 1969, and it was fabulous. The first ...
In 1967, a year before the first 747 rolled out of Boeing's Everett assembly building, Qantas agreed to purchase four Boeing 747 aircraft at a cost of $123 million. It was, at the time, the airline's largest-ever order by value. ...
freighters and that the SST would replace the 747 on passenger routes. Trippe was one of Boeing’s best customers and usually the first to order new models, so Boeing put the flight deck of the 747 above the passenger cabin to give the aircraft a hinged nose for a front-loading cargo ...
The first Boeing 747-8I, D-ABYA, to be delivered to Lufthansa in May 2012 (Photo: Boeing) The 747-8 features a fuselage stretch of 18ft 4in (5.6m) compared with the 747-400, giving a total fuselage length of 250ft 2in (76.3m). This is achieved by the insertion of two fuselage...
Boeing, an American plane maker, was asked by Pan Am, a big airline in the United States, to build a large passenger plane.Even before the first 747 was ready for testing, 26airlines had ordered the planes. The first test flight was done in 1969, and it was fabulous. The first ...
The first flight of the Boeing 747 from New York to London, was on22 January 1970, carrying hundreds of passengers. With this flight, air travel changed forever.Several forms of the 747 have been produced since 1970. By 1990, Boeing was producing a new 747every six days. Each new form ...
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