Last Boeing 747 rolls out of the factory: How the 'queen of the skies' reigned over air travel

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On Jan. 31, 2023, Boeing completed its last 747, the airplane that helped make international air travel affordable.

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On the contrary, from Joe Sutter's own book, 747:
“I should add that fostering large high-bypass engines was all that the USAFC-5 competition contributed to the Boeing 747, as my new airplane would be called. Time and again there appears in print the logical but false assumption the Boeing took its losing military C-5 bid and revamped it as the commercial 747. In fact, the 747 would be an entirely original design that owes nothing to the C-5.”