Boeing 747
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Alice Cooper: booze, madness and dead chickens...wouldn't guess any of this from his epic Theatre of Death tour, which lands at Manchester Apollo this week with all the subtlety of a Boeing 747 loaded with nuclear weapons crashing into the Moon. As well as the guest zombies, there's a... In this article: Alice Cooper, Chicken, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Mary Whitehouse, Las Vegas, and Detroit |
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Wired: Danger Room | 2 days ago
Air Force Zaps Drones in Laser Test
...fails to down the target. Boeing has been developing a range of directed-energy weapons for the military, including the Airborne Laser (a Boeing 747 reconfigured as a ballistic-missile shooter), the Advanced Tactical Laser (a laser gunship),...
In this article: Boeing, Kinetic energy, Wired.com, and California
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Centre Daily Times | 3 days ago
Global Air Freight Solutions Leader Atlas Air Again Passes Industry Standard IOSA Audit
...committed to safety and compliance leadership, as well as unmatched operational excellence. " Atlas Air flies the world's largest Boeing 747 freighter fleet, including the most state-of-the-art 747-400Fs. In 2008 AAWW operated 19,042 flights,...
In this article: Atlas Air, Global Air, Operational excellence, Leasing, and Nasdaq
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | 3 days ago
Airbus sells first all 'cattle class' A380 superjumbo to tiny island of Reunion
...on to one passenger plane is held by El-Al during Operation Solomon in 1991, when it airlifted thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. A Boeing 747 flight on May 24 had a passenger list of 1,087 people, but dozens of women are known to...
In this article: Airbus, Cattle, Air Austral, Air France, Paris, Airbus A380, and Toyota Prius
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Nicolas Sarkozy gets new 'Air Sarko One' jet
...French leader and his first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. While the new presidential plane is not as big as President Barack Obama's Boeing 747-200B - otherwise known as Air Force One - its cost is already provoking debate in Paris. Funding...
In this article: Nicolas Sarkozy, France, Boeing 747-200B, Air Caraibes, British Airways, Airbus, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Barack Obama, and Paris
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Reuters | 4 days ago
PRESS DIGEST - British business - Nov 16
...Unite seeking negotiations over plans to reduce cabin crew costs by 140 million pounds annually, but staff are said to be "angry" that changes have already removed one crew member from every Boeing 747 flight. Prepared for Reuters by Durrants
In this article: Matalan, Virgin Media, UKTV, Living, Virgin, Sainsbury's, HBOS, and JP Morgan
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Guardian | 5 days ago
BA cabin crew begin strike ballot vote
...threatening to ground BA's fleet. Unite said that cabin crew were "angry" about changes that have removed one crew member from each Boeing 747 service. BA's largest union attempted to block the move this month at a high court hearing but the...
In this article: Unite, British Airways, Climate change, and Scotland
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The Seattle Times | 7 days ago
Boeing: 787 fix is complete on first plane
...he's increasingly confident that "the first flight of the 787 Dreamliner will occur before the end of the year." New version of Boeing 747 jumbo jet emerges from factory Boeing mechanics Wednesday completed installing reinforcements to...
In this article: Boeing, 787 Dreamliner, Carbon, Charleston, Everett, and South Carolina
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New version of Boeing 747 jumbo jet emerges from factory
Originally published November 12, 2009 at 7:30 PM | Page modified November 12, 2009 at 10:01 PM New version of Boeing 747 jumbo jet emerges from factory Boeing rolled out the first 747-8 - the largest version of its iconic jumbo jet -...
In this article: Boeing, Everett, Paine Field, 787 Dreamliner, Cargolux, and Luxembourg
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Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings CEO to Speak at Stephens Inc. Fall Investment Conference
...is the majority shareholder of Polar Air Cargo Worldwide, Inc. (Polar). Through Atlas and Polar, AAWW operates the world's largest fleet of Boeing 747 freighter aircraft. Atlas, Titan and Polar offer a range of air cargo services that...
In this article: Atlas Air, Stephens Inc., Leasing, and Nasdaq
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chicagotribune.com - Business | October 28, 2009
United's says farewell to 737
...at United before losing his job in September. He's one of 1,450 pilots who will be furloughed as United grounds its 737 fleet and six Boeing 747 jumbo jets. "We tend to become attached to these big pieces of aluminum." The jet's final...
In this article: Boeing 737, Boeing, California, Airbus A380, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines
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The Boeing 747 is a widebody commercial airliner, often referred to by the nickname "Jumbo Jet". It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft, and was the first widebody ever produced. Manufactured by Boeing's Commercial Airplane unit in the US, the original version of the 747 was two and a half times the size of 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 (as is the general rule today) 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, whose development was announced in the early 1960s, to render the 747 and other subsonic airliners obsolete, but that the demand for subsonic cargo aircraft would be robust into the future. The 747 in particular was expected to become obsolete after 400 were sold but it exceeded its critics' expectations with production passing the 1,000 mark in 1993. As of June 2009, 1,416 aircraft have been built, with 107 more in various configurations remaining on order.
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