In article <p1f6ts120vl@news3.newsguy.com>, Jess Lurkin says...
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>Was in all that soup in the Southern Plains
>yesterday (TX and OK). Really ugly flying.
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>On the way to the airport, I heard that the
>very last commercial flight of the 747 took
>place. I think it was an oriental flight.
>Didn't get time to confirm story.
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>Nothing left but box haulers and *really*
>expensive private charters? I looked in here
>and didn't see a mention. Grand old girls.
The thing is Boeing is still building them.
I read the article about it on Sunday...here:
https://jalopnik.com/the-boeing-747-jumbo-jet-takes-its-final-u-s-commercia-1821365922
The Boeing 747 'Jumbo Jet' Takes Its Final U.S. Commercial Flight This Week
Introduced half a century ago in 1968, it was a technological marvel and a
have stopped buying them. As such, Delta Air Lines will retire its last
remaining 747 this Tuesday following its last Seoul-to-Detroit route.
This marks the last time the 747 will be used on a commercial flight with an
American carrier, according to news reports.
----> Boeing says it will still continue building 747s as freight carriers for
certain clients who still need the four-engine behemoth. Additionally,
specially-outfitted 747s have been in use as Air Force One since 1990, and
handful moving forward. Things we do for VIPs, things we do for the president,
As airlines and air freight companies increasingly move to smaller, twin-engine
aircraft in order to save on fuel, demand for 747s has certainly waned. At its
peak in 1990, Boeing produced 122 of these huge planes. Recently, however,
such a large plane.
The original 747 was the key to jumpstarting affordable mass market air travel
company historian, Michael Lombardi.
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