Boeing 747

The Boeing 747 is a wide-body commercial airliner and cargo transport aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft and was the first wide-body produced. Manufactured by Boeing's Commercial Airplane unit in the United States, the original version of the 747 was two and a half times larger in capacity than the Boeing 707, one of the common large commercial aircraft of the 1960s. First flown commercially in 1970, the 747 held the passenger capacity record for 37 years. The four-engine 747 uses a double deck configuration for part of its length. It is available in passenger, freighter and other versions. Boeing designed the 747's hump-like upper deck to serve as a first class lounge or extra seating, and to allow the aircraft to be easily converted to a cargo carrier by removing seats and installing a front cargo door. Boeing did so because the company expected supersonic airliners (development of which was announced in the early 1960s) to render the 747 and other subsonic airliners obsolete, while the demand for subsonic cargo aircraft would be robust well into the future. The 747 was expected to become obsolete after 400 were sold, but it exceeded critics' expectations with production passing the 1,000 mark in 1993. By April 2014, 1,487 aircraft had been built, with 51 of the 747-8 variants remaining on order. The 747-400, the most common passenger version in service, has a high-subsonic cruise speed of Mach 0.85–0.855 (up to 570 mph or 920 km/h) with an intercontinental range of 7,260 nautical miles (8,350 mi or 13,450 km). The 747-400 passenger version can accommodate 416 passengers in a typical three-class layout, 524 passengers in a typical two-class layout, or 660 passengers in a high density one-class configuration. The newest version of the aircraft, the 747-8, is in production and received certification in 2011. Deliveries of the 747-8F freighter version to launch customer Cargolux began in October 2011; deliveries of the 747-8I passenger version to Lufthansa began in May 2012. The 747 is to be replaced by the Boeing Y3 (part of the Boeing Yellowstone Project) in the future.

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1. open your eye it 2017 and 380 still is the biggest plane
2. beautiful words.."not a robot in sight!"
3. Ok, so this is a totally dumb question: If you were diving a hypothetical B747 from the service ceiling at max throttle, AND if turbine overspeed and V(ne) were not issues - i.e. your only limitation is drag, not your airplane destroying itself from flying too fast - could you break the sound barrier?
4. il giorno che fallirà la BOEING io festeggerò, se sarò ancora vivo
5. Boeing build a spaceplane
   Pooper
6. GOD i love this plane!!! SEXY!!!
7. Is it just me or that the 747 looks better then the 380
8. R.I.P. Joe Sutter
9. i dont undetstand i dont get what design they did blue or red
10. That's what my dad made
11. So Sweet... I Love The New Body Design..One of my Favorite Boeing Planes...FLYING BY WIRE SYSTEM.Awesome👌
12. I work at a Newport News Shipbuild. We build The US Navy's NUCLEAR POWERED Aircraft Carriers and NUCLEAR POWERED Fast Attack Virginia Class Submarines. The process is quite similar except for the fact that airplanes don't have to worry about the corrosion from salt water that ships have to deal with. The older the ship, the more pain that is been put on over the years. Especially alongside on the side shell of the whole. At some points along the side shell, the pain can be as thick as an eight to a quarter of an inch thick over a period of 25 years. There's a lot of other stuff that I could talk about but it's classified.
13. I like where they're lifting a supposedly 7 ton engine with a 6 ton crane.
14. The A380 actually burns less fuel per seat, Boeing is just talking bullshit so that customers can come and buy their unsuccessful 747-8 (with just over 100 orders-only)
15. Once again NatGeo sucking in objectivity which you'd expect from a global broadcasting company. We get it, you're patriotic. Enough with the propaganda already..
16. Both the 747 and A380 looks beautiful to me. All Jumbos have their own beauty and cannot be distinguished.
17. The Boeing 747 , King of the Sky
18. Boeing 747 more like Boring 747 times
19. this is airplane crash
20. this is a jumbo jet ?