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Boeing Quietly Pulls Plug on the 747, Closing Era of Jumbo Jets
Boeing Co. hasn’t told employees, but the company is pulling the plug on its hulking 747 jumbo jet, ending a half-century run for the twin-aisle pioneer. (www.bloomberg.com) Mehr...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Love the 747. Sad its going away. Hope Boeing will continue to build 747 F
Sad, that all good things must come to an end! What a Majestic aircraft. My first flight on a 747 was right after finishing Helicopter flight school in '71. I was astounded, that Boeing was able to build such an aircraft. Just the thought of how many Huey helicopters it could carry at one time, and the overall capability was astonishing. An era, that the flying public will never experience again.
I flew the 747 dozens of times when I was living and working in West Germany/ BRD from 1980-1996. PAN AM/ TWA/ Lufthansa/ British Airways. I flew on a Combi Version from Frankfurt to San Francisco. Cool flying a 747 with just half the passengers on a conventional 747.
GOOD BYE BIG BEAUTIFUL BIRD! I have flown on a few and I remember being in sacramento at the airport once when PAN AM was training and the 747 was doing "touch and goes"..now that was something! I remember the 747 that carried the shuttle coming in to the houston airport once,and it is now parked for visitors to see at the Houston space center visitors center...
Flew over to Korea on a Northwest 747 MAC Charter w/abt 450 other service personnel, dependents from STL to Osan AFB via OAK & Yokota AFB, 12 hours between OAK & Yokota. Flew back on a 747 from Kimpo to SeaTac. Most memorable was landing @ Kai Tak in a Thai International 747 looking into someone’s apartment as they watched TV.
Many 747's had cockpits with the air filtration system that was not connected to the rest of the plane. They also had their own food service area. That's why they were used so heavily to move folks around when Covid-19 first appeared. Do another large aircraft have this feature? If not, that might be a reason to keep these planes flying. Who knows were this pandemic is going to go.