This week are of celebrations, if it does little celebrate the five years of Airbus To380 and the delivery of the Airbus number 6.000; today it touches to celebrate the 40 anniversary of the entrance of operation of the Boeing 747.
Although the flight was foreseen for the 21 of January of 1970, problems of sobrecalentamiento of one of the engines of the aeroplane selected for the flight, forced to that the first commercial flight of a Boeing 747 delayed until the day 22.
The Boeing 747-121 with matrícula N736PA, and baptised like Clipper Victor, realise the first commercial flight in the route New York – London of Bread Am, flight in which invested six hours and ten minutes.
The Clipper Victor had besides the doubtful honour to be the first 747 in being kidnapped, the 2 of August of 1970, and desgraciadamente was, together with the 747-206B of KLM with matrícula PH-BUF, protagonist of the main accident of aviation of the history the 27 of March of 1977 in the airport of The Rodeos.
Boeing estimated by that period that would not manufacture many more than 400 units, but at the end, has turned into these years in one of the most famous aeroplanes of the world, no only by his perfectly recognizable line when having an upper flat, but also by what has meant of face to the popularización of the intercontinental flights.
Nowadays, with something more than 1.400 units delivered in his distinct variants, the 747 still follows in service in numerous airlines of all the world and in production in the form of the 747-800, that expect that it realise his first flight this year, whereas the last 747-400, the most popular variant of the Jumbo, was delivered in December of 2009 to LoadAir, a Kuwaiti airline devoted to the transport of load.
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