It was in 2006 that Dios first heard about the Boeing 747, which was for sale.
Former Boeing 747 pilot Eric Moody believes pirate radio DJs are underestimating the risk they pose.
Total orders for the Boeing 747-8 stand at a mere 5 in 2012 so far.
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The Boeing 747 landed safely shortly before noon ET after its go-around, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The order to move came on Wednesday, and Air Partner dispatched a Boeing 747 to Freetown, the capital.
In 1983, a Colombian Boeing 747 of Avianca Airlines crashed near Barajas Airport in Madrid, killing 181 people.
The Boeing 747 first flew in 1969, yet it still is the main jet carrying people across oceans.
The 6-acre site uses three gas turbines, cousins of those that (using jet fuel instead) go on a Boeing 747.
Seven crew members died when a US civilian Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan on Monday.
One client is Prince Alwaleed, who now travels in a customized Boeing 747-400 with two throne rooms outfitted by Associated.
Negotiations are on-going, but the airlines have already agreed to commit 10 Boeing 747-400 freighters to the venture, according to Reuters.
That's like throwing away 62 Boeing 747 jumbo jets daily, or driving 8, 730 new Honda Civics into a landfill each morning.
Endeavour will need to be removed from its perch atop the Boeing 747 that carried it cross-country from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
Today the Space Shuttle Enterprise arrived in New York City today, thanks to a lift from a Boeing 747.
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Like the 787, the Boeing 747 had a lot of issues when it started flying in 1970, aviation consultant Michael Boyd said.
Desso wove the uniforms into carpets, which were kitted out on the new World Business Class cabin on KLM's Boeing 747-400 fleet, this July.
All 230 people on board the Boeing 747 were killed when the New York-to-Paris flight exploded and plunged into the Atlantic on July 17.
Thomas Lee, a 59-year-old Californian, also flew on the maiden commercial flights of the Boeing 747 in 1970 and the Airbus A380 superjumbo in 2007.
In 1974, the first crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet occurred when a Lufthansa airliner crashed after takeoff at Nairobi airport in Kenya, killing 59 people.
That is up from just 20 percent in the case of the Boeing 777, launched in 1995, and almost nothing in the Boeing 747, launched in 1969.
The pilot and co-pilot told authorities that he entered the cockpit while they were performing their preflight duties and checks and said he was a Boeing 747 pilot, officials said.
Mr Pratt added that high fuel costs had hurt Cathay's profitability, especially on long-haul routes, which it said were dominated by "older, less fuel-efficient, Boeing 747-400 and Airbus A340-300 aircraft".
Now with his third wife, he is a fitness fanatic, with a penchant for cross-country skiing and also pilots gliders, helicopters, light aircraft and larger jets, including the Boeing 747.
In 1996, nearly 350 people were killed when two aircraft, one a Boeing 747 operated by Saudia collided with a Kazakh cargo jet over India, in the worst incident in Indian aviation.
Over the years the company has been called upon to design bespoke interiors for aircraft including the BBJs and CJs, and widebody aircraft including the Lockheed L1011 Tristar, Airbus A340-600 and Boeing 747-400.
That is why air strips from Cheju in Korea to Davao in the Philippines to Medan in Indonesia are busy turning themselves into international airports that can handle giants like the Boeing 747-400.
Just over a week later, on 23 September, a Qantas Boeing 747, carrying 407 people on a flight from Sydney to London skidded off a runway during a tropical rainstorm at Bangkok Airport.
The intended market is city pairs (like Seattle-Paris) big enough to support nonstop service with a smallish jet but not big enough to fill a giant long-distance plane like the Boeing 747 or upcoming Airbus A380.
Most famous of these, of course is Air Force One, the official jet transport -- though actually there are two Air Force Ones, both modified Boeing 747-400s -- of the President of the United States of America.
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