Boeing 747

Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781473838239

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Boeing 747: A History by Martin W. Bowman Pdf

A comprehensive history of the aircraft that transformed commercial aviation. Includes photos. A presence in our skies for over half a century, the iconic Boeing 747 has transported hundreds of thousands of passengers across the world. From its introduction with Pan American Airlines in 1970, it has persevered as one of the forerunners of commercial flight. Often labeled the “Queen of the Skies,” this is an aircraft revered by passengers and aircrew alike. The first wide-body airliner ever produced, it has set new standards in air travel and opened up the air routes of the world to vast numbers of people who might otherwise have been unable to afford international air travel. This book focuses not only on the 747, but also its many variants, including the YAL-1A, which Boeing developed for the US Air Force, and the Evergreen 747 Supertanker, a 747-200, modified as an aerial application for fire-fighting. Across its types, the 747 carries around half the world’s air freight. Accordingly, freight variants feature here too, including the 747-8.The sheer size of the workload carried out by this craft is astounding. From the glamorous 1970s, an era of rapid expansion that saw an unprecedented boom in the tourist trade, to the various environmental and economical imperatives that impact upon modern flight, this work shows how the Boeing 747 has been developed in accordance with the changing demands of the ages.

Author : Peter Gilchrist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Boeing 747 (Jet transports)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028998826

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Boeing 747-400 by Peter Gilchrist Pdf

The Boeing 747-400 is a complete revision of the basic 747 design. Its increased range and capacity, new-generation technology and cost savings, have all improved the original Jumbo Jet. This volume covers the design, technical specifications, engine choice and production of this aircraft.

Author : Owen Zupp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0994603827

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Boeing 747. Queen of the Skies. by Owen Zupp Pdf

The Boeing 747 is more than an airliner - it is the Queen of the Skies. From flights over Antarctica to carrying a spare fifth engine beneath the wing, award-winning aviation writer and airline pilot, Owen Zupp, has detailed the varied journeys of the magnificent Boeing 747.

Author : Chris Gall
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250799814

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Jumbo by Chris Gall Pdf

For the 50th anniversary of the Boeing 747’s first commercial flight, a picture book about the development of the iconic passenger plane and how it changed the history of air travel. In 1968, the biggest passenger jet the world had ever seen premiered in Everett, Washington. The giant plane was called the Boeing 747, but reporters named it “the Jumbo jet.” There was only one problem. It couldn’t fly. Yet. Jumbo details the story of the world’s first wide body passenger jet, which could hold more people than any other plane at the time and played a pivotal role in allowing middle class families to afford overseas travel. Author and illustrator Chris Gall, himself a licensed pilot, shows how an innovative design, hard work by countless people, and ground-breaking engineering put the Jumbo jet in the air. On January 22, 1970, the Boeing 747 made it's first transatlantic flight, taking passengers from New York to Paris in seven hours.

Author : Lance Cole
Publisher : Air World
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526760029

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Boeing 747 by Lance Cole Pdf

Boeing's 747 'heavy' has achieved a fifty-year reign of the airways, but now airlines are retiring their fleets as a different type of long-haul airliner emerges. Yet the ultimate development of the 747, the -800 model, will ply the airways for many years to come. Even as twin-engine airliners increasingly dominate long-haul operations and the story of the four-engine Airbus A380 slows, the world is still a different place thanks to the great gamble that Boeing took with its 747. From early, difficult days designing and proving the world's biggest-ever airliner, the 747 has grown into a 400-ton leviathan capable of encircling the world. Boeing took a massive billion-dollar gamble and won. Taking its maiden flight in February 1969, designing and building the 747 was a huge challenge and involved new fields of aerospace technology. Multiple fail-safe systems were designed, and problems developing the engines put the whole programme at risk. Yet the issues were solved and the 747 flew like a dream said pilots - belying its size and sheer scale. With its distinctive hump and an extended upper-deck allied to airframe, avionics and engine developments, 747 became both a blue-riband airliner and, a mass-economy class travel device. Fitted with ultra-efficient Rolls-Royce engines, 747s became long-haul champions all over the world, notably on Pacific routes. across the Atlantic in January 1970, 747 became the must-have, four-engine, long haul airframe. Japan Airlines, for example, operated over sixty 747s in the world's biggest 747 fleet. By the renowned aviation author Lance Cole, this book provides a detailed yet engaging commentary on the design engineering and operating life and times of civil aviation's greatest sub-sonic achievement.

Author : Lance Cole
Publisher : Air World
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526760036

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Boeing 747 by Lance Cole Pdf

Boeing’s 747 ‘heavy’ has achieved a fifty-year reign of the airways, but now airlines are retiring their fleets as a different type of long-haul airliner emerges. Yet the ultimate development of the 747, the -800 model, will ply the airways for many years to come. Even as twin-engine airliners increasingly dominate long-haul operations and the story of the four-engine Airbus A380 slows, the world is still a different place thanks to the great gamble that Boeing took with its 747. From early, difficult days designing and proving the world’s biggest-ever airliner, the 747 has grown into a 400-ton leviathan capable of encircling the world. Boeing took a massive billion-dollar gamble and won. Taking its maiden flight in February 1969, designing and building the 747 was a huge challenge and involved new fields of aerospace technology. Multiple fail-safe systems were designed, and problems developing the engines put the whole programme at risk. Yet the issues were solved and the 747 flew like a dream said pilots – belying its size and sheer scale. With its distinctive hump and an extended upper-deck allied to airframe, avionics and engine developments, 747 became both a blue-riband airliner and, a mass-economy class travel device. Fitted with ultra-efficient Rolls-Royce engines, 747s became long-haul champions all over the world, notably on Pacific routes. across the Atlantic in January 1970, 747 became the must-have, four-engine, long haul airframe. Japan Airlines, for example, operated over sixty 747s in the world’s biggest 747 fleet. By the renowned aviation author Lance Cole, this book provides a detailed yet engaging commentary on the design engineering and operating life and times of civil aviation's greatest sub-sonic achievement.

Author : Ingo Bauernfeind
Publisher : HarperTempest
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911658522

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Boeing 747 by Ingo Bauernfeind Pdf

Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, aviation specialist Ingo Bauernfeind's new Boeing 747 history celebrates more than half a century of an enduring aviation icon that has changed commercial aviation since its maiden flight in 1969. With personal accounts written by former pilots and crew members, it covers the aircraft's early history and development, its ground-breaking technology and systems, its remarkable and distinguished commercial career and the numerous variants that have expanded its role and capabilities far beyond those originally intended by its designers. Thanks to ongoing improvements and upgrades, new 747s continue to roll off the production line today and this incredibly durable and reliable aircraft looks set to remain at the forefront of civil aviation for the foreseeable future.

Author : Douglas J. Ingells
Publisher : HP Trade
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015009794267

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747: Story of the Boeing Super Jet by Douglas J. Ingells Pdf

Author : Peter Gilchrist
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0760310076

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Boeing 747 Classic by Peter Gilchrist Pdf

The Boeing 747 has been around for over 30 years but still seems every bit as big as the day it first took to the skies. It represents a quantum jump in the development of civil aircraft, one that revolutionised the way we fly today and the way we accept better prices, service and safety than could have been dreamed of in the early years of jet aircraft.The fact that the Boeing 747 was developed at all is a remarkable testament to the courage and self-belief of a small group of brilliant engineers, all of whom were willing to risk their hard-won reputations by building an aircraft that was so totally different to anything previously offered to the airlines. Its acceptance for production go-ahead was also a notable example of corporate courage -- because many problems lay ahead and there was an enormous amount at stake: had the aircraft not sold in very considerable numbers, the continuation of Boeing itself might have been at risk.Although the theoretical operating profits from a 747-sized airliner were highly seductive, they were only theoretical. Before any profits could be made at all, a huge investment package had to be put together to fund not only the most expensive airframes of all time, but also the wide-ranging changes to basic infrastructure that would be needed make their operations possible. No airline in the world, for example, had passenger steps that were capable of reaching the doors of a 747; or baggage-handling equipment that could operate on such a heroic scale; the maintenance engineers did not have a single hangar bay that could house the aircraft, or the staging needed to reach the outer limits of its structure; the capacity of toilet-servicing units all overthe world would have to be at least doubled. The arrival of the 747 on prestige routes was going to massively increase the scale of everything virtually overnight and global changes of this magnitude do not come cheaply.Most of the major airports of the world would also need a significant amount of investment to accommodate even a small number of 747s. Existing hardstanding areas, terminal buildings and pier layouts were all based on the length, wingspan and turning-circle of the then current generation of jets: in some cases even the pavement weight-bearing strength was already close to its safe limit. The anticipated gradual evolution of aircraft had generally played an important role in the planning of airport facilities, but the impending operational arrival of the 747 suddenly presented a whole new set of problems -- the burden of which would depend largely on the commercial success of the aircraft.As we know today, Boeing handled the problems brilliantly: today we accept flying and commercial aircraft as commonplace, and much of that is down to Boeing and the 747. This book looks carefully at the history of this remarkable sequence of events, the development of the 747 family and the longevity of the Classic -- per-747-400 -- versions.

Author : Robert F. Dorr
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1580070558

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Boeing 747-400 by Robert F. Dorr Pdf

This series provides the enthusiast with a first-ever look at the structure, design, systems, and operation of these high tech wonders of the air. Contains engineering drawings, tech manual excerpts, exploded views, overhaul handbooks, cockpit photos, pilot manual excerpts, factory assembly photos, and more.

Author : Joe Sutter,Jay Spenser
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062011527

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747 by Joe Sutter,Jay Spenser Pdf

747 is the thrilling story behind "the Queen of the Skies"—the Boeing 747—as told by Joe Sutter, one of the most celebrated engineers of the twentieth century, who spearheaded its design and construction. Sutter's vivid narrative takes us back to a time when American technology was cutting-edge and jet travel was still glamorous and new. With wit and warmth, he gives an insider's sense of the larger than life-size personalities—and the tensions—in the aeronautical world.

Author : Dennis R. Jenkins
Publisher : Specialty Press (MN)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Boeing 747 (Jet transports)
ISBN : 1580070264

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Boeing 747-100/200/300/SP by Dennis R. Jenkins Pdf

This series provides the enthusiast with a first-ever look at the structure, design, systems, and operation of these high tech wonders of the air. Contains engineering drawings, tech manual excerpts, exploded views, overhaul handbooks, cockpit photos, pilot manual excerpts, factory assembly photos, and more.

Author : SAM CHUI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0993260497

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AIR 747 by SAM CHUI Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UCR:31210016344051

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Boeing's Proposal to Remove Overwing Exits from 747-series Aircraft by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight Pdf

Author : Peter R. March
Publisher : History PressLtd
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0750944854

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The Boeing 747 Story by Peter R. March Pdf

The Boeing 747, more commonly known as the Jumbo Jet, is probably the most recognized of all modern airliners, and for many years it was the largest passenger airliner in service. In this study Peter March describes the Jumbo Jet's development and its service history with the world's airlines. He includes a wide range of interesting facts and figures about an aircraft that has become one of the most recognizable icons of modern air travel.