The first wide-body jumbo-jet to be introduced, the Boeing 747 revolutionized long-distance, transoceanic commercial aviation and set the standard for all other wide-body designs that followed. #WingWednesday
This tweet was posted on August 18, 2021.
The last commercial Boeing 747 is scheduled to be delivered today to Atlas Air from the Boeing Everett Factory. Introduced 53 years ago, the Boeing 747 created a whole new category of airliner, the wide-body jet. Have you ever flown on a 747? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 31, 2023.
These posters from JAL (Japan Airlines) show the complex instrument panels in a Boeing 747. #AVGeek
This tweet was posted on March 20, 2016.
This photo on #United's #Boeing #747 service in the 1970s features three different patterns of Hollywood costumer Jean Louis' 1973 uniform, diamonds, stripes, and polka dots. Which one is your favorite? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on June 21, 2018.
To celebrate and promote the new Boeing 747, #Continental introduced new uniforms, including a form-fitting, polyester mini-dress that projected a flashy, energetic look of casual comfort with bright stripes in the airline’s colors. #WidebodyAV
This tweet was posted on October 18, 2019.
United Air Lines introduced its first Boeing 747 in 1970 for the popular west coast-to-Hawai’i route. United furnished their “Captain’s Lounge” with namesake chairs in an open layout. What are your fondest memories of the Boeing 747? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on February 14, 2019.
United Air Lines received its first 747-100 on June 26, 1970, and a month later launched 747 service from San Francisco to Honolulu. United began to hire male stewards in 1970 for Hawai’i service only. #WidebodyAV #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on June 01, 2020.
United Air Lines’ 747 featured a spacious first-class cabin with a spiral staircase that led up to a first-class lounge, branded as the “Red Carpet Room” and furnished with captain’s chairs, wrap-around couches, and a back wall mural. #WidebodyAV #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on June 01, 2020.
United Air Lines’s Boeing 747 featured a spacious first-class cabin at the front of the aircraft with a spiral staircase that led up to a first-class lounge, branded as the “Red Carpet Room.” #WidebodyAV #avgeek
This tweet was posted on February 27, 2020.
Upgraded variants were introduced during the 1960s, including a stretched version that was the largest capacity airliner until the introduction of the widebody Boeing 747 in 1970. #WingWednesday
This tweet was posted on July 07, 2021.
When McDonnell Douglas began to develop its widebody jetliner in the late 1960s, they endeavored to create an airliner that would operate in areas not served by the Boeing 747. MD portrayed their DC-10 as the widebody for the entire family in this promotional poster. #WidebodyAV
This tweet was posted on December 05, 2019.
When the Boeing 747 was introduced, it was 80% larger than the second largest commercial aircraft, the Douglas DC-8.
This tweet was posted on January 22, 2016.
With one refueling stop in Dakar, the inaugural Air France Concorde flight required just seven hours. A nonstop flight on a subsonic Boeing 747 during this time required more than eleven hours. #SSTTimeMachine #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on April 28, 2023.
With the launch of the #Boeing 747, Pan American offered customers promotional View-Master three-dimensional viewers with sets of disks that detailed the aircraft’s development and highlighted its revolutionary features. #WidebodyAV #avgeek
This tweet was posted on March 13, 2020.
Within the span of a single lifetime, #Boeing went from producing piston-engine, propeller-driven aircraft to modern jetliners. Shown here in an United Airlines photo are the model 247, introduced in 1933, next to the iconic 747, introduced in 1970. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on December 06, 2018.
“There really wasn’t time to be scared. We were just too busy.”
Our newest #blog post describes. through the career documents of Flight Attendant Jane Thoe, the actions of the crew of #PanAm World Airways Flight 845 in the first major accident involving a Boeing 747. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on August 31, 2021.
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poster: Pan American World Airways, Boeing 747; 1969
Gift of Barnaby Conrad III
2001.038.145
timetable: Pan American World Airways and National Airlines, spring and summer schedule; 1980
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2002.135.054
This tweet was posted on August 25, 2022.
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photograph: Boeing 747-100; c. 1969
Gift of Barbara Johnson in Memory of Arnol Johnson
1997.56.035
photograph: Pan American World Airways, Boeing 747; c. 1969
Gift of the Captain John B. Russell Family
2012.149.0877
This tweet was posted on August 18, 2021.
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brochure: Continental Airlines, Boeing 747; 1970
Gift of David A. Abercrombie in memory of Stanley A. Abercrombie
2001.039.209
https://t.co/dnl4JJ9J2W
postcard: Continental Airlines, Boeing 707-320C; c.1970
Gift of the William Hough Collection
2008.055.293
This tweet was posted on April 21, 2022.
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menu: Pan American World Airways, Historic First Flights series, Boeing 747; 1983
Gift of William E. Talbott
2012.151.018
https://t.co/UhVPBNZx4k
This tweet was posted on December 14, 2022.
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promotional print: Pan American World Airways, Boeing 747; 1970s
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2015.160.616
postcard: Swissair, Boeing 747-200B; 1970s
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2015.166.1410
This tweet was posted on August 18, 2021.
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promotional print: Boeing 747 prototype first flight; 1969
Anonymous gift
2016.115.031
brochure: Boeing Company Tour Center, Everett, Washington; c. 2002
Gift of David Armstrong Abercrombie
2015.032.318 a b
This tweet was posted on September 30, 2021.
📸:
United Air Lines flight attendants review route map with a family aboard a Boeing 747 widebody airliner c. 1973
Gift of United Airlines Archives
1999.047.300
R2021.0601.082
This tweet was posted on October 05, 2021.
😢 "Boeing considers ending production of 747" https://t.co/AyEjEnctNk via @WSJ
This tweet was posted on July 29, 2016.