The 747, Boeing’s iconic jumbo jet that helped to democratize air travel, has officially retired.
was decades from ending. But Trippe, who’d recently preordered twenty-five units of Boeing’s new jumbo jet, which still only existed on paper, spoke of a bright future: “The new era of mass travel between nations may well prove more significant to human destiny than the atom bomb. . . . The 747 will be a great new weapon of peace.”
For the most part, the hype that started in the late nineteen-sixties was justified. There had never been anything like the 747: the first wide-body, multi-aisle passenger jet, the largest craft to nose up to any airport—from the ground to the top of the tail, as tall as a six-story building, and three-quarters of a football field in length—capable of carrying more than four hundred passengers. And it was one of the safest aircraft ever built, as a Boeing in-house historian has claimed.
The first 747 left the ground in early 1969. After touching back down, the Boeing test pilot expressed awe at how effortlessly it flew. “Let’s put it this way,” his voice cracked over the radio, “the airplane landed itself.” Passengers loved the plane so much that Trippe’s Pan Am eventually purchased dozens more. Other airlines followed, finding new ways to attract travellers.
It also etched its image onto popular culture. In the visual grammar of film, a 747 touching down on a runway, heat waves warbling in the foreground, is shorthand for—plot point in countless blockbuster movies, “Air Force One” and “Snakes on a Plane” among them.
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