Boeing to rollout final 747 jumbo jet from Everett factory

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Boeing will roll out the final 747 jumbo jet from its Everett factory on Tuesday night, the company confirmed to KOMO News on Tuesday morning.

The jet's history in the Puget Sound region spans more than 50 years.

In February 1969, crowds gathered to watch the first flight of Boeing's 747-100 nearly three years after construction began on a massive production facility in Everett.

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Delivery of the last 747 is expected early next year to Atlas Air, the company said. It'll be the company's 1,574th 747.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/boeing-to-rollout-final-747-jumbo-jet-from-everett-factory/ar-AA14YN59

The Last 747 Ever Built Has Rolled Off Boeing's Production Line

After more than half a century in production, the last example of Boeing’s 747 ‘Jumbo Jet,’ the iconic airliner that brought long-range wide-body air travel to the world, has rolled off the production line. With the closure of the production line for the ‘Queen of the Skies,’ the era of the four-engine airliner also ends, with Boeing and rival Airbus now having fully transitioned to twin-engine wide-body airliner families.

The last Model 747, the 1,574th to be completed, will emerge from Boeing’s Everett, Washington, facility today. The aircraft will be test flown by the manufacturer before being painted and delivered to its customer, the cargo and charter carrier Atlas Air, early next year.

“It’s a very surreal time, obviously,” Kim Smith, vice president and general manager of Boeing’s 747 and 767 programs told the CNBC news channel. “For the first time in well over 50 years, we will not have a 747 in this facility.”

The 747 program began life in the late 1960s when a Boeing team dubbed “the Incredibles” were responsible for developing what was then the largest civilian aircraft in the world in a space of only around 16 months.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-last-747-ever-built-has-rolled-off-boeing-s-production-line/ar-AA14ZfAv

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1. I didn't know they were still making them.

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I remember when Northwest Airlines got its first 747-400. A friend and I went to the airport to see it, and we stood by the runway to watch it take off - because it was so damn big we really didn't think it could fly. But, of course, it did. What was cool was the way the wings actually moved up as it took off.

[cos dem]

2. Oh, this is sad.

Such an iconic aircraft. At least it out-lived the ugly-ass A380.

[Aristus]

3. I got to ride in the upper deck of a 747 on the way to Germany for my first duty station.

It was an Army charter flight, so we got the same service as the rest of the passengers on the lower deck. But it was pretty fun anyway.

I also flew in a 747 to King Fahd International when I was deployed to the Gulf in 1991. That was a fun flight. Once we reached cruising altitude, the flight staff dropped their professional demeanor, and invited us all to party with them. We raided the galley for sodas and snacks, danced with the flight attendants, and we were even invited, a few at a time, up to the flight deck to talk to the pilots.

We tankers thought the flight deck was the coolest thing ever, but all the pilots wanted to talk about was what it was like inside a tank. Two groups of professionals discovering each other's worlds, I guess.

My last experience on a 747 was when I went on terminal leave from the Army. I decided to fly to Great Britain for a nice, long visit. I caught a trans-Atlantic flight in a 747 from Dover, Delaware. The flight was at about one-quarter capacity, so I had a whole row to myself. I lifted up the seat-dividers, curled up in a blanket, and went to sleep. When I awoke, I was in England. The flight was like something out of a dream.

Anyway, many fond memories of that big beast. She will be missed.