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    Boeing 747-8 is the final series of the large, long-range wide-body airliners in the Boeing 747 family from Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The 747-8 is the...
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    Boeing VC-25 (redirect from Boeing 747-2G4B)
    The Boeing VC-25 is a military version of the Boeing 747 airliner, modified for presidential transport and commonly operated by the United States Air...
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    Area codes 818 and 747 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County in...
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    refueling stop at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. On 29 April 2013, the Boeing 747-400 operating the flight crashed moments after taking off from Bagram, killing...
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    The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife...
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    Boeing 747 was not surpassed until October 2007, when the Airbus A380 entered commercial service with the nickname "Superjumbo". Both the Boeing 747 and...
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    British Airways Flight 009 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 747)
    On 24 June 1982, the route was flown by the City of Edinburgh, a Boeing 747-236B registered as G-BDXH. The aircraft flew into a cloud of volcanic ash...
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    Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong. On 25 May 2002, the Boeing 747-209B operating the route disintegrated in midair and crashed into the Taiwan...
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    Boeing 747-100 that sits atop the roof, 62 feet (19 m) above the splash landing. Additionally, across from the museum building is another Boeing 747, this...
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    and classical concert, Strings & Wings. On 22 October 2020, a second 747, Boeing 747-400 G-CIVW, joined G-BDXJ, to be situated at Dunsfold for use as a...
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    Mauritius. On 28 November 1987, the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 747-200 Combi named Helderberg, experienced a catastrophic in-flight fire in...
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    On 31 October 2000, at 23:18 Taipei local time (15:18 UTC), the Boeing 747-412 operating the flight attempted to take off from the wrong runway at Chiang...
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    several preserved aircraft. In spring 2002, Lufthansa donated a retired Boeing 747-200 aircraft, which is now accessible to visitors. In April 2008, a Soviet/Russian...
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    Spacelines Mini Guppy Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Airbus Beluga A300B4-608ST Airbus BelugaXL A330-743L Boeing 747 LCF Dreamlifter...
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    Boeing Everett Factory (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    (named the Boeing Freeway). The factory was built in 1967 for the Boeing 747 and has since been expanded several times to accommodate new airliners, including...
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    Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 747)
    passenger flight from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. On August 12, 1985, the Boeing 747 flying the route suffered a severe structural failure and decompression 12...
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    Lufthansa Flight 540 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 747)
    involving a Boeing 747. The aircraft involved was a Boeing 747-130 registered as D-ABYB and was named Hessen. It was the second 747 to be delivered to...
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    Floppy disk (redirect from Mini disk)
    separate device driver provided by Microsoft. The British Airways Boeing 747-400 fleet, up to its retirement in 2020, used 3½-inch floppy disks to load...
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    in the tradition: the version by "Pseudo-Barthélémy Mini de Sienne", contained in ms. Egerton 747 in the British Library, and the version by Manfred de...
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    (10 ft) in diameter and manually powered by prisoners.: 99, 151, 233  In 747, Emperor Xuanzong (r. 712–762) of the Tang dynasty (618–907) had the Cool...
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    American Airlines Flight 587 (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    controls in response to wake turbulence from a preceding Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400 that took off minutes before it. According to the NTSB, the aggressive...
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    TWA Flight 800 (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA800) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July...
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    Olympic Airways Flight 411 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 747)
    Kennedy International Airport and operated by Olympic Airways using a Boeing 747-200. On August 9, 1978, the flight came close to crashing in downtown Athens...
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    1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision (category Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 747)
    On 12 November 1996, Saudia Flight 763, a Boeing 747 en route from Delhi, India, to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907, an Ilyushin...
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  • by Michael Scheff and David Spector. The plot concerns a private Boeing 747 packed with VIPs and priceless art that is hijacked before crashing into...
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  • delivery of a Boeing 747-400 freighter taking the freighter fleet to three Boeing 747s. Emirates SkyCargo was operating two Boeing 747-400s with capacity...
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  • section or on the upper deck of certain wide-body aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380. Early passenger planes were necessarily very uncomfortable...
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  • List of United States cities by population (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    96.77°W / 32.79; -96.77 (Dallas) Jacksonville FL 985,843 949,611 +3.82% 747.3 1,935.5 1,271 491 30°20′N 81°40′W / 30.34°N 81.66°W / 30.34; -81.66...
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    Air India Flight 855 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 747)
    Mumbai), India, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On 1 January 1978, the Boeing 747 operating the flight crashed about 3 km (1.9 mi; 1.6 nmi) off the coast of...
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    the Jet Age by acquiring new jetliners such as the Boeing 707 and Boeing 747. Pan Am's modern fleet allowed it to fly larger numbers of passengers, at...
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