![]() ![]() And, by the way, (plane) spotters love it too because – especially the 747-8 - it’s just so damn good-looking.” The CEO took an LH Boeing 747-8 from Frankfurt to San Francisco to arrive at the event, “in the nose of this wonderful airplane.”Ī post shared by The Boeing Company continued, “The customer experience is simply great, on every version, in every aspect, when you fly a 747. “When I realized I had to come to the West Coast for this event, there was only one way to travel,” Spohr told the attendees. When I got up to the cockpit, I could not see out the front of the airplane! We managed to land at Boeing Field with the pilot looking out the side window!” Photo: Daniel Gorun/AirwaysĪnother notable quote came from Lufthansa (LH) CEO Carsten Spohr, who said to the thousands gathered, “We just fall in love with Boeing designs.” He highlighted that the airline was the launch customer for the Boeing 737, the European launch customer for the Boeing 747, and the launch operator of the 747-8I. “I remember the pilot saying, ‘We’ve got to get a direct back to Seattle and clear all the airplanes out of the way’. The hail ended up cracking both front windshields. Thomas recounted that on a turbulence test flight, the engineers complained the thunderheads they flew through were not turbulent enough. Upon returning to Seattle, they flew through what they thought was an innocuous thunderhead that ended up having golf-sized hail. He recounted, “When we did a stall in a small airplane, you knew you were falling out of the sky.” But on the 747, “it didn’t feel like you were stalling at all it was easily controllable.” Thomas came to the 747 Flight Test from the 737. Thomas installed instrumentation for measurement and monitored many data points, such as pressure, fuel flow, and engine RPM. “Incredible” Thomas Gray, a Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer, flew on the 747 prototype aircraft and was on board the initial 747 test flights. ![]() “Incredible” Carol Persak, an Integral Fuel Sealer, recounted volunteering from Renton to Everett to work on the Boeing 747 program. Back then, “ was a pretty big unknown-we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into,” but added, “we were young, and we liked adventure!” Working on the 747 enabled Carol to leap to other jobs, including becoming a Flight Test Technician. The Boeing CEO added, “If a company ever needed to stand tall on a legacy it was the Boeing Company.” On stage at the Boeing 747 Everett facility, Boeing CEO David Calhoun said that the company continued to have visions “just like this one,” adding that its production lines were full of innovation and thanking everyone who’d been involved with the Jumbo program. Photo: Daniel Gorun/Airways Paying Tribute to the Boeing 747 ![]() ![]() Stan Deal, CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, began the hour-long celebration by referring to the 747 as the “plane that changed the world forever.” What came were many who took to the stage to pay tribute to the Queen of the Skies.ĭeal moderated a panel of speakers that included former Boeing executives and key employees of the program, as well as the current CEOs of Lufthansa (LH) and 5Y, two of the world’s largest 747 operators. Thousands of people, including current and former employees, customers, and suppliers, gathered to mark the delivery of the final Boeing 747-8 Freighter, the 1,574th produced over the course of 55 years. Yesterday, Boeing celebrated the delivery of the final 747 to Atlas Air (5Y). DALLAS - The first Boeing 747 was the result of the work of more than 50,000 Boeing employees called “The Incredibles.” They made aviation history by building the 747-at the time the largest commercial airplane in the world-in less than 28 months during the late 1960s. ![]()
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