BOEING 747
BOEING 747 WILL STOP OPERATIONS AFTER 50 YEARS
Published By Livemint
| 31 Jan, 2023
Having been in production since September 1968, the Boeing 747 will go off operations
The Boeing 747 is often dubbed as the Jumbo Jet or the 'Queen of the Skies
It took more than 50,000 Boeing employees less than 16 months to churn out the first plane
The Boeing 747 became the world's first mass-produced widebody civil aviation aircraft
The world's first twin-aisle wide body jetliner's nose and upper deck became the world's most luxurious club above the clouds
As per CNBC, it has served more than 3.5 billion passengers
It was inevitable that it would slowly retire as the demand for twin-engined aircraft rose due to better economies
Boeing 747 will not disappear from the sky as a lot of commercial airlines continue to fly them