The Boeing 747 Queen of the Skies, Airlines, and the Story of the Jumbo Jet That Shrank the World
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
15.06.2026
Verlag
Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformSeitenzahl
148
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/0,8 cm
Gewicht
209 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798181656857
Few aircraft have carried more imagination, ambition, and human memory than the jumbo jet. For generations of travelers, the Boeing 747 was the airplane waiting at the gate before a life-changing journey: a machine of scale, distance, power, and possibility.
The Boeing 747: Queen of the Skies, Airlines, and the Story of the Jumbo Jet That Shrank the World tells the story of the aircraft that transformed long-haul travel and became one of the most recognizable machines in aviation history. Written in a premium aviation-history style, this book follows the 747 from the limits of the early jet age to its rise as a global flagship, cargo workhorse, and enduring symbol of international flight.
Readers will experience the 747 as both an engineering achievement and a cultural force: the widebody cabin, the upper-deck hump, the four-engine confidence, the Pan Am and Boeing gamble, the passenger experience, the cargo legacy, and the changing economics that eventually moved airlines toward newer twin-engine aircraft.
Inside, you'll discover:
- How the 747 was born from airline growth, airport pressure, and the search for a larger long-haul aircraft
- Why its design mattered, from the widebody fuselage and upper deck to four engines, range, payload, and cargo capability
- How airlines used the jumbo jet to reshape international routes, tourism, migration, business travel, and global airport networks
- Why the Queen of the Skies remains beloved, even as passenger fleets retired it and its cargo legacy continued
Elegant, informative, and richly atmospheric, The Boeing 747 is for aviation enthusiasts, aircraft lovers, airline-history readers, and anyone who wants to understand why this extraordinary jet became more than an airplane. It became the shape of long-distance travel itself.
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