American wide-body four-engined jet long-range aircraft

Record 017 · Transport · 1970

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Boeing 747-100

Boeing

“The jumbo jet that made intercontinental travel a mass product.”

Pan Am bet the company; Boeing bet the factory. Double-deck hump, 366+ seats, and the first true wide-body created cheap long-haul tourism.

1,574 of all 747 variants

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  • Twin-aisle wide-body
  • High-bypass turbofans at scale
  • Freight nose-door variant

Queen of the Skies.