A wide body commercial jet airliner manufactured by Boeing, recognizable by its distinctive upper deck hump. It entered scheduled service with Pan American World Airways on 22 January 1970, becoming the first widely used wide body aircraft, nicknamed the Jumbo Jet, and dramatically lowered the cost per seat of long haul air travel by carrying far more passengers per flight than earlier airliners. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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SignificanceThe first widely used wide body jet airliner, sharply lowering the cost per seat of long haul air travel. 1 Manufacturer or Builder Connections
Exemplifies
Source Wikipedia: Boeing 747
Invented By
Source Wikipedia: Joe Sutter
Preceded By
Both landmark commercial airliners of their era; the DC-3 established mass passenger air travel and the 747 mass long haul travel.
Source Wikipedia: Boeing 747
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WikipediaOverview
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023.
Flight testing
the first flight, which took place on February 9, 1969, with test pilots Jack Waddell and Brien Wygle at the controls.
Commercial service
The 747 then subsequently entered service on January 22, 1970, on Pan Am's New York-London route.
Lead section
The 747 was the first airplane called a 'Jumbo Jet' as the first wide-body airliner.
- Exemplifies: Aviation
- Part Of: Pan American Airways
- Preceded By: Douglas DC-3
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Joseph Frederick Sutter (March 21, 1921 - August 30, 2016) was an American engineer for the Boeing Airplane Company and manager of the design team for the Boeing 747 under Malcolm T. Stamper, the head of the 747 project.
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