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CTOnews.com, January 30 (Xinhua)-- the Boeing 747, also known as the "Jumbo Jet", is the world's first mass-produced wide-body civil aircraft, nearly 52 years after the first Boeing 747 was delivered to Pan am in January 1970.

On December 6, 2022, the world's last Boeing 747, No. 1572, was taken offline from Boeing's Everett plant and is scheduled to be delivered to Atlas Airlines in early 2023.

▲ 's last Boeing 747-8F, Tuyuan Atlas Air, according to Boeing's official news, the world's last Boeing 747 will be delivered on February 1, which will be broadcast live in bilibili at 5 a.m. Beijing time on Wednesday (February 1).

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 its launch in 1970 and before the A380 went into service in 2007, the Boeing 747 has held the record for the highest carrying aircraft in the world for 37 years and is known as the "queen of the air".

▲ 's first Boeing 747, the official Boeing CTOnews.com learned that the Boeing 747 is a semi-double-decker four-engine aircraft with a double-cabin design carrying up to 524 passengers. The emergence of this wide-body airliner made a significant increase in civil aviation passenger capacity, reduced ticket costs and prices, and made it possible for the general public to travel around the world, which 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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