{"id":1007,"date":"2014-06-26T09:46:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2014-06-26T09:46:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:46:01","slug":"will-iconic-boeing-747-fly-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/will-iconic-boeing-747-fly-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen of the Skies Still Reigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/will-iconic-boeing-747-fly-sunset\/\" data-text=\"The Queen of the Skies Still Reigns\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boeing_747\" target=\"_blank\">Boeing 747<\/a>, one of the world&#8217;s most recognizable aircraft, was the first wide body jet built and revolutionized air transportion. \u00a0When it was introduced in 1970, it carried twice as many passengers as then current airliners. \u00a0It&#8217;s cavernous cargo capacity brought airfreight into the realm of financial feasability. \u00a0During it&#8217;s development it was designed to be easily converted to cargo hauling because the conventional wisdom of the day was that subsonic aircraft like the 747 would soon be rendered obsolete as passenger liners due to the imminent introduction of supersonic airliners. \u00a0The predicted proliferation of the supersonics never materialized &#8211; the lone SST, the Concorde, has come and gone. \u00a0Boeing expected to sell 400; \u00a0As of April 2014, 1487 have been built with another 51 on order. \u00a0The &#8220;Queen of the Skies&#8221; still reigns.<\/p>\n<p>I am awed by the fact that a machine this large can fly &#8211; it can have a takeoff weight nearly <em>one million pounds<\/em>, and a range of over 9,000 miles! \u00a0Amazing! \u00a0Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;site=imghp&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=hp&amp;biw=1600&amp;bih=775&amp;q=boeing+747&amp;oq=boeing+747&amp;gs_l=img.12..0l10.2035.7530.0.9916.10.7.0.3.3.0.99.612.7.7.0....0...1ac.1.48.img..0.10.633.clW5g15Xh5s\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for tons of pictures. \u00a0Here are some clips of the bird in action &#8211; enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xC359NhL-s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L405Hh6g2Ko\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet The Boeing 747, one of the world&#8217;s most recognizable aircraft, was the first wide body jet built and revolutionized air transportion. \u00a0When it was introduced in 1970, it carried twice as many passengers as then current airliners. \u00a0It&#8217;s cavernous cargo capacity brought airfreight into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-life","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}