The first Boeing 747 at the plant in Washington ... were lifted and moved into place on either side. “That’s the place where the airplane actually finally becomes an airplane,” Mr. Kopecki ...

Pilots have long held a deep connection to the airplane that Joe ... Numbers Gottshall came to the 747 Classic models from the operations side before coming to Boeing. As a con- tract pilot ...

Aviation Week editors talk about being at the delivery ceremony of the last Boeing 747 and why ... Chris, we tend to think of the 747, of course, for the passenger side, but let's just quickly ...

I was tucked up on the left side of the upper deck ... Over the years, the designation “Boeing 747” has been applied to 18 versions of the airplane—some very different in appearance and ...