After building 1,574 747s, Boeing will deliver the very last one on Tuesday to Atlas Air, for use as a cargo plane.
flew its first passengers back in 1970, the world knew this was something special. And from day one, the Anderson family has quite literally had their hands on nearly every single 747 built, working on the production line in Everett, Washington.
Asked what went through his mind when he saw the first one fly, Andy smiled and said,"It gave me goosebumps! Everybody wanted to fly a '47. They still do, right?" Boeing historian Mike Lombardi said,"This airplane marks the point in history, the first time that any person on planet Earth could get on an airplane and fly ... You could say that it shrunk the world."
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