TOP 10 Boeing 747 `s – The Queen of the skies – B747 Jumbo JetsTop ten Boeing 747 – This is my personal opinion of the best Boeing 747` s which are currently flying around. Of course I was only able to use footage I filmed so I wasn` t able to include all Boeing 747` s but in my opinion it` s still a nice compilation of the legengday Queen of the skies.
Featured top 10 planes:
10.) Nippon Cargo Boeing 747-8 at Amsterdam and Frankfurt Hahn
9.) Kalitta Air Boeing 747-200 and Boeing 747-400 at Liege, Maastricht and Amsterdam.
8.) TNT Boeing 747-400 at Liege and Düsseldorf
7.) UPS Boeing 747-400 at Cologne
6.) Etihad Cargo B747-8 at Amsterdam
5.) Centurion Air Cargo B747-400 at Amsterdam
4.) National Cargo Boeing 747-400 at Liege and Cologne
3.) Yangtze River Express Boeing 747-400 at Amsterdam
2.) Emirates Sky Cargo Boeing 747-400 at Düsseldorf, Amsterdam
1.) Air Atlanta Icelandic (Iron Maiden) Boeing 747-400 at Düsseldorf
The Iron Maiden Boeing 747 was my highlight this year and that` s why I decided to put it on No.1.
The Boeing 747 is an American wide-body commercial jet airliner and cargo aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. Its distinctive “hump” upper deck along the forward part of the aircraft makes it among the world’s most recognizable aircraft, and it was the first wide-body produced. Manufactured by Boeing’s Commercial Airplane unit in the United States, the original version of the 747 was envisioned to have 150 percent greater capacity than the Boeing 707, one of the common large commercial aircraft of the 1960s. First flown commercially in 1970, the 747 held the passenger capacity record for 37 years.
The four-engine 747 uses a double deck configuration for part of its length. It is available in passenger, freighter and other versions. Boeing designed the 747’s hump-like upper deck to serve as a first class lounge or extra seating, and to allow the aircraft to be easily converted to a cargo carrier by removing seats and installing a front cargo door. Boeing did so because the company expected supersonic airliners (development of which was announced in the early 1960s) to render the 747 and other subsonic airliners obsolete, while the demand for subsonic cargo aircraft would be robust well into the future. The 747 was expected to become obsolete after 400 were sold, but it exceeded critics’ expectations with production passing the 1,000 mark in 1993. By July 2016, 1,523 aircraft had been built, with 20 of the 747-8 variants remaining on order.
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