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CTOnews.com, December 6 (Xinhua)-- according to Leeham News, the last Boeing 747, No. 1572, will be offline from Boeing's Everett plant on the evening of December 6 local time. The plane was built for Atlas and is scheduled to be delivered in January next year, nearly 52 years after the first Boeing 747 was delivered to Pan am in January 1970.

"this is a sad moment," said Jon Sutter, the grandson of ▲ 's last Boeing 747-8F, the legendary designer of the Boeing 747 and the father of the Boeing 747.

Joe SutterCTOnews.com, the father of the ▲ Boeing 747, learned that the Boeing 747, also known as the "Jumbo Jet", is the world's first mass-produced wide-body civil aircraft manufactured by the Boeing Civil aircraft Group of the United States. The prototype of the Boeing 747 is twice the size of the widely used Boeing 707 in the 1960s, and the wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight. Since it went into service in 1970 and before the A380 went into service in 2007, the Boeing 747 held the record for the highest carrying aircraft in the world for 37 years.

▲ 's first Boeing 747, Tuyuan Boeing official Boeing 747 is a semi-double-decker four-engine aircraft with a double-deck cabin designed to carry up to 524 people. the emergence of this wide-body airliner in that year has significantly increased the passenger capacity of civil aviation and reduced the cost and price of air tickets, which has made it possible for the general public to travel around the world, which has had a great impact on the world.

With the advent and continued development of supersonic airliners in the 1980s, some people in the industry estimated that the Boeing 747s would slowly retire, but their predictions were dashed by the cumulative orders of more than 1000 Boeing 747s in 1993. As of June 2014, the Boeing 747s had produced 1500 aircraft and 38 orders had not yet been delivered. The latest model of the Boeing 747 is the 747-8, which was officially launched in 2011.

The boom of the Boeing 747 passenger market did not end until the 2010s, because the twin-engine wide-body aircraft was more economical, and in June 2017, Boeing announced that it would stop production of the passenger 747-8, considering that the fuel efficiency of the four engines was still too low. however, it said it would continue to produce the 747-8F and special models (such as Air Force one and Boeing commercial airliners). The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020 led to a sharp drop in demand for air transport, and Boeing announced in July 2020 that it would stop production of all 747s in 2022.

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