Boeing 747: The Queen of the Skies
The Boeing 747, the original Jumbo Jet, was the world’s first wide-body airliner: it first flew on 9 February 1969, entered service with Pan Am on 22 January 1970, and by the time the final example was delivered in January 2023, 1,574 had been built and cheap long-haul air travel had become an ordinary fact Read article