Boeing 747 celebrates 40th anniversary

Boeing 747 celebrates 40th anniversary; Heathrow the place to see them

The Boeing 747 made its first test flight 40 years ago this February before entering commercial service in January 1970. Since then over 1,400 747s of different configurations have been produced. Although production is still continuing all of the recently delivered aircraft (just 14 in 2008) are freighter versions of the aircraft.

More info can be found here:
http://www.anna.aero/2009/02/20/boeing- ... -see-them/

Good article. I am surprised that BA is currently the top 747 operator. For a long time this honor belongs to JL.

I slept in a parked 200-series to celebrate this, see www.jumbohostel.com

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Originally Posted by Alessio

I slept in a parked 200-series to celebrate this, see http://www.jumbohostel.com

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Lucky you!
Of course its not in the US, I'm sure 99.9999% of American's think it would be stupid.