Thousands of Boeing employees – including some of the so-called 'Incredibles' who developed the 747 in the 1960s – watch the last delivery of the historic plane.
Thousands of Boeing employees – including some of the so-called “Incredibles” who developed the jet in the 1960s – watched the last delivery of the historic plane, which brought air travel to the masses and represented an indelible slice of Americana.
Known as the “Queen of the Skies,” the 747 was the world’s first twin-aisle jetliner, which Boeing designed and built in 28 months and Pan Am introduced in 1970. Boeing’s Everett, Washington, facility has been the 747’s production site since the plane’s conception. Built in 1967 to produce the mammoth jet, it remains the world’s largest manufacturing plant according to Boeing.
As different sections of the last 747 – the wings or fuselage structures, for example – were complete, the production line “just slowly started to shut down,” said Kim Smith, Boeing’s vice president and general manager for the 747 and 767 programs.The last 747 rolled out on December 7, capping the program at 1,574 total. The plane has since completed inspections and flight tests, flying to Portland over the holidays to get a paint job.
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