Snapshot 📸 | As the Boeing 747 prepares for take-off for the final time, Metro takes a look back at the history of the groundbreaking aircraft known as the 'Queen of the Skies' ✈️
Speaking at the landmark occasion, Travolta, who learned to fly the 747-400 as an ambassador for Qantas Airlines, said ‘[It was] the toughest program that any commercial pilot will ever have to endure’, and called the jet the ‘most well thought out and safest aircraft ever built.’
‘But times change and, as more environmentally friendly, fuel-efficient aircraft come off the production line, airline orders for 747s diminished.’ The people that worked on the early 747s became known as ‘the Incredibles’ due to their outstanding work ethic. The first model was manufactured in snowstorms as the hangar was built around staff who worked all hours, often sleeping at the plant. Here, a team wire the cockpit instruments of a Boeing 747 mockup . The aircraft was far bigger and complex than anything Boeing had ever built before
An epic unveiling of the world’s largest and longest-range jetliner from Boeing, which carried 412 people for 8100 miles. In 2015, Delta retired the first Boeing 747-400 aircraft ever built for a commercial airline, after its final flight from Honolulu to Atlanta. The plane, which had been flying since 1989, logged more than 61 million miles, enough to make 250 trips to the moon .
Flight attendants of Japan’s All Nippon Airways introduce its Pokemon Jet, which began its domestic operations 21 June 1999 at Tokyo International Airport. The aircraft design came via a competition launch after Pokemon became a hit Ninteno must-have in 1996 A Pan Am air hostess serving champagne in the first-class cabin of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. While EasyJet passengers pay £5 for a can of Heineken today, 1960s passengers would pass the time with bottomless glasses of champagne
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