{"id":11706,"date":"2021-11-07T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T17:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11706"},"modified":"2021-11-07T10:12:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T17:12:36","slug":"747-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/07\/747-2\/","title":{"rendered":"747"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/how-boeing-747-changed-way-airplanes-designed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Architectural Digest<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How the Boeing 747 Changed the Way Airplanes Are Designed<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>On the anniversary of its first test flight in February 1969,&nbsp;<em>AD<\/em>&nbsp;looks back on how the \u201cQueen of the Skies\u201d became the most famous plane in the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/contributor\/stefanie-waldek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stefanie Waldek<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boeing 747 100 First Flight 1\/2\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aHbpTahG7x4?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you ask Sir Norman Foster what his favorite building is, you\u2019ll find that it\u2019s not a building at all, but an airplane. And it\u2019s not just any airplane, but the Boeing 747, the pinnacle of commercial aviation. \u201cThe fact that we call this an aeroplane rather than a building\u2014or engineering rather than architecture\u2014is really a historical hangover, because for me, much of what we have here is genuinely architectural both in its design and its thinking,\u201d he once said in an episode of the BBC show&nbsp;<em>Building Sights<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known as the Queen of the Skies, the 747 revolutionized air travel when it made its commercial debut in 1970, allowing travelers to globe-trot farther than ever before, faster than ever before, and perhaps with more flair than ever before. And more than 50 years later, its design legacy lives on in contemporary aircraft\u2014and in the hearts of aviation lovers around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 1903 and 1939, aviation escalated from the Wright Brothers\u2019 spruce plane to the very first jet, an astonishing engineering achievement. From there, commercial travel took off, entering the Golden Age of Flight, when passengers donned their finest suits and dresses to board a plane, then wined and dined on white tablecloths at cruising altitude. The era culminated in the largest, most impressive plane of them all: the 225-foot-long, 60-foot-tall 747, the world\u2019s first jumbo jet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe main thing that really captured everybody\u2019s attention and their imagination at the time that the airplane came out is its incredible size,\u201d says Boeing\u2019s senior corporate historian Michael J. Lombardi. \u201cWhen you put it next to the 707, which was the biggest jetliner of its time in the 1960s, the 747 is twice the size.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/how-boeing-747-changed-way-airplanes-designed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at AD<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Architectural Digest How the Boeing 747 Changed the Way Airplanes Are Designed On the anniversary of its first test flight in February 1969,&nbsp;AD&nbsp;looks back on how the \u201cQueen of the Skies\u201d became the most famous plane in the world By\u00a0Stefanie Waldek If you ask Sir Norman Foster what his favorite building is, you\u2019ll find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}