As Boeing’s 747 retires, a look at the jumbo jet’s 50-year reign

As Boeing’s 747 retires, a look at the jumbo jet’s 50-year reign

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After five decades, Boeing is ending its production of the 747 Jumbo Jet with a final delivery Jan. 31 to U.S. cargo airliner, Atlas Air. Designed in the late 1960s to meet the demand for mass travel, the “Queen of the Skies” transformed flying as the first twin-aisle wide-body jet that could…

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