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19th June 2020, 11:01 PDT By Stephen Dowling Features correspondent Getty Images It became an icon of long-haul travel and exotic holidays; Boeing's 747 could fly more people further than any.
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Our collection of commercial aircraft, such as the well-known Boeing 747, help tell the history of America by air. Learn more about some of these aircraft below. Watch on Did you know that the parts of airplanes today can be traced directly back to the Wright Flyer and the work of Orville and Wilbur Wright?
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Despite the end of Boeing's 747 program, there are still 50 active passenger aircraft operated by five airlines. Air China, Korean Air, Lufthansa, Asiana Airlines, and Saudia will continue to.
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Boeing 747 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After introducing the in October 1958, times its size, to reduce its by 30%. In 1965, development program to design the 747.
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An incredible never built Boeing 747-500 with propfan engines. It would have an impressive range to go London to Sydney non-stop and be ultra fuel-efficient..
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Wreckage from TWA Flight 800 to be destroyed 25 years after crash. The jetliner was decommissioned this month and will be destroyed by the end of the year. The crash left 230 people dead. For more.
First Boeing 747 rolled out 47 years ago
The Propeller 747 Lookalike: The Aviation Traders Carvair By Sumit Singh and Jake Hardiman Updated Oct 28, 2023 These quirky cargo planes were converted from Douglas DC-4s. Photo: Richard Goring | Flickr When spotted, the legendary Boeing 747 instantly stands out for its distinctive double-decker shape.
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The upper deck of a Lufthansa 747-8, configured in a 2-2 business-class layout (Photo by JT Genter/TPG) In the most recent passenger version, the 747-8 Intercontinental, the upper deck has the same floor space as a Boeing 737-700. The -8 is flown only by Lufthansa, Air China and Korean Air, which all have a business-class cabin on the upper deck.
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TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747, bound for Paris, France with 230 people aboard, crashed July 17, 1996, minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport. After an exhaustive, four-year-long investigation, the NTSB determined the probable cause of the crash was an explosion in the center wing fuel tank. Evidence indicated the.
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The Propeller Explained, a documentary made in the 1990s
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The Big Imagination project began that way too -- and grew into a group that raised and spent just short of $1 million to bring a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet (or rather, 3/4 of one) to Burning Man this year.
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Nearly as long as a Boeing 747's wingspan and as wide as two large sea containers, it is the only surviving example of the SRN.4 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 4), the largest commercial hovercraft ever.
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One Boeing 747-400 originally destined to fly for Northwest Airlines was sold to United Airlines which was in service until United retired its 747 fleet in 2017. Northwest was looking for manufacturers to discuss the replacement of their 100, 110 and 125 seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9 aircraft, with an average age of 35 years. [2] [3]
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Boeing's Propeller 747 The Never Built 747-500 2021-12-29 Advertisemen An incredible never built Boeing 747-500 with propfan engines. It would have an impressive range to go London to Sydney non-stop and be ultra fuel-efficient.
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Wreckage of the front portion of the TWA flight 800 Boeing 747 aircraft is displayed in its reconstructed state, Nov. 19, 1997 in Calverton, Long Island, N.Y. Jon Levy/AFP via Getty Images, FILE.
The Propeller 747 Lookalike The Aviation Traders Carvair
NASA The size and success of Boeing's iconic 747 aircraft made it the perfect platform for a number of ambitious and, at times, strange modifications that would have completely altered its performance and look. Some of these modifications succeeded, resulting in airborne aircraft which, if only for a while, managed to perform their new roles.