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The 747 airliner has a hump because Boeing was convinced that future supersonic aircraft would eventually make it obsolete as a passenger plane. The raised cockpit allowed for a hinged nose so the 747 could continue being marketable as a cargo carrier. Today, the 747 as a passenger plane is steadily replaced by twin-engine aircrafts […]
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The Boeing 747 can transport different amounts of people. The 747-400 version can hold 416 passengers in a typical three-class layout, but up to 660 passengers in a high-density setup with only one class.
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When Boeing fired over 70,000 employees in Seattle during the 1970s Boeing Bust, a billboard was placed on the highway leaving Seattle stating: “Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights.”
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Boeing use potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi, as they reflect and absorb the signals similarly to people. The project is called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution- or SPUDS.
A single Boeing 777 Engine delivers twice the horsepower of all the Titanic’s steam engines combined. 00
During a visit to Boeing, Soviet scientists secretly applied adhesive to the bottom of their shoes in order to covertly collect metal samples from the floor.
Programmers missed one bug in the Boeing 777 autopilot. Passengers on Flight 124 survived the roller coaster ride.