quote:After 54 years, the last 747 reached the end of Boeing’s Everett production line.
The iconic humpback jet transformed travel and the community that gave it wings. The factory that was hastily set up on Snohomish County farmland in the 1960s grew to enormous proportions, becoming the world’s largest building by volume. Inside, generations of workers assembled 1,574 of the iconic aircraft.
These images capture the last of them, a freighter built for cargo carrier Atlas Air, during its assembly at the Everett factory. As the last “Queen of the Skies” approaches its Tuesday handoff, read these reflections by eight Boeing workers whose lives were shaped by the 747.
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quote:The last 747
Boeing workers reflect on an iconic plane like no other
On Tuesday, Boeing will wave a final goodbye to the 747 jumbo jet.
In the years after its launch, the 747 elevated the Puget Sound region to the world’s premier airplane manufacturing site and boosted Boeing to preeminence in aviation. It made international air travel routine.
A diverse cross-section of the Boeing workers who helped bring this transformative piece of engineering to life tell their stories below. They reflect upon their affection for the jumbo jet that changed their lives, and aviation.
Almost exactly 54 years after the first flight, thousands of current and former employees and guests will attend a bittersweet ceremony in Everett on Tuesday before cargo carrier Atlas Air flies away a 747 freighter model, the 1,574th and last “Queen of the Skies” ever built.
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
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quote:Originally posted by pianojuggler:
Zoom in on Eastern Washington
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/GTI747
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Money seems to buy the most happiness when you give it away.
Why does everything have to be so complicated, all in the name of convenience. -ShiroKuro
A lifetime of experience will change a person. If it doesn't, then you're already dead inside. -MarkJ
quote:Followed this flight a couple of times this afternoon. She has landed in CVG now.
My guess is that this aircraft will begin earning its keep with its first revenue flight tomorrow.
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