A Boeing 747 took off from Seattle in January 1970. Boeing released an icon on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, when it delivered the jumbo to the cargo company Atlas Air. AP/Archivo
Thousands of people -among them muchos trabajadores y exempleados de Boeing, pero también representatives de álérios y del sector aereo- se dieron cita en la plant que la company tiene en Everett (Washington) para asistir a una ceremonia que fue retransmitida en directo través the internet
Passengers relax aboard the new Boeing Pan Am 747 (Bettmann) transport plane
The stewardesses pose with their uniforms on the stairs aboard the new Boeing Pan Am 747 transport plane (Bettmann)
Boeing 747 SP (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
1968: Maqueta a tamaño real del avion 747 de Boeing con pasajeros. Alan Band/Keystone/Getty Images
La tripulación de un Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet posa delante del morro del avión en el aeropuerto londinense de Heathrow, en Inglaterra, el 12 de enero de 1970. Este avión de 360 plazas fue el primero de su clase en completar una travesía transatlántica. AP/Archivo
The Boeing 747, the world’s largest passenger plane, was presented to the public on September 30, 1969. With a capacity of 490 passengers, this 20 million dollar plane was delivered to the airlines in October. La nave pesaba 700.000 libras y tenía 10 asientos con camarotes (Bettmann)
Everett, Washington: The Boeing 747, the world’s largest passenger plane, makes its public debut (Bettmann)
In 1977, two Boeing 747 planes collided on the runway of Tenerife Los Rodeos airport, causing the death of 583 people, making it the worst accident in aviation history. Tony Comiti/Sygma via Getty Images/Archivo
American pilot Lynn Rippelmeyer, the first woman to captain a Boeing 747 across the Atlantic Ocean, before a PEOPLExpress plane, July 20, 1984. P. Shirley/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Archivo
In this archive photo taken on April 17, 2012, the space shuttle Discovery docked at the back of the NASA 905 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), a modified Boeing 747 jumbo, during a flyover of the country’s capital. final a su lugar de retiro en Washington, DC. Pete Marovich / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP
TWA flight 847, departing from Athens and destined for Rome, was hijacked by Shiite Muslims identified as members of Islamic Jihad on June 14, 1985 (Alain Nogues/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images/Archivo)
Boeing employees work on the fuselage section of the 747-8 Intercontinental, Boeing’s new passenger plane, at the Boeing factory on February 12, 2011 in Everett, Washington. Stephen Brashear/Getty Images/Archivo
A Pan Am Boeing 747 at Heathrow Airport, London, made its first transatlantic commercial flight from New York on January 22, 1970. AP/Lawrence Harris/Archivo
The prototype of the space shuttle Enterprise is mounted on the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft before a test approach and landing at the Edwards base of the California Air Force, 1977. Space Frontiers/Archive Photos/Getty Images
The ex-president of the United States, Bill Clinton, spoke on the phone aboard Air Force One on July 17, 1993 in Missouri. The modified Boeing 747 was first used by John F. Kennedy in 1962 and retired in 1998. Diana Walker/Liaison/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Workers loaded an Air China Boeing 747-200, bound for Frankfurt, at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport on December 18, 2005 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. China Photos/Getty Images/Archivo
Ed Force One, the Boeing 747 passenger plane of the British heavy metal rockers Iron Maiden, took off after takeoff while piloted by the singer of the band Bruce Dickinson from the Salón Aeronáutico de Berlin ILA 2016 on June 1, 2016 in Schoenefeld, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images/Archivo
An image of the Boeing engineer Joe Sutter, known as the “father of the 747”, appears on the exterior of the last Boeing 747 airplane, in a ceremony to commemorate its delivery, at the Boeing Museum of the Future of Flight in Everett, Washington. January 31, 2023. Jason Redmond / AFP
In this file photo taken on February 07, 2020, a Boeing 747 aircraft that serves as Air Force One is on the runway at Andrews Conjunta Base in Maryland. SAUL LOEB / AFP
This photograph taken on December 7, 2022 and published by Boeing on January 31, 2023 shows the last Boeing 747-8 leaving the company’s wide fuselage factory in Everett, Washington, before its delivery. Atlas Air a principios de 2023. Paul WEATHERMAN / Boeing / AFP / Archivo
Thousands of current and former employees reunited on January 31 at the Boeing factory in Everett, Washington, in the northwest of the United States, for a final farewell celebration in parallel with the delivery of a Boeing 747-8 Atlas cargo plane. Air. Paul WEATHERMAN / Boeing / AFP / Archivo
Current and former employees, clients and guests participate in a ceremony for the handover of the last Boeing 747 aircraft, at the Boeing Future of Flight Museum in Everett, Washington, on January 31, 2023. Jason Redmond / AFP
Artist Jeff Barlow, from Boeing’s creative department, shows his sketch of the last Boeing 747 airplane in a ceremony to commemorate its delivery, at Boeing’s Museum of the Future of Flight in Everett, Washington, on January 31, 2023. Jason Redmond / AFP
Boeing officially dismissed the original jumbo, the 747, with the last delivery of an airplane that democratized the flight and served the presidents of the United States. Photo by Jason Redmond/AFP
