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The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial airliner, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London route.
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American wide-body four-engined jet long-range aircraft
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After the introduction of the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet 2+1⁄2 times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30%. In…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Airliner with two aisles
A wide-body aircraft, also known as a twin-aisle aircraft and in the largest cases as a jumbo jet, is an airliner with a fuselage wide enough to accommodate two passenger aisles with seven or more seats abreast. The typical fuselage diameter is 5 to 6 m. In the typical wide-body…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Aircraft designed for commercial transportation of passengers and cargo
An airliner is a type of airplane for transporting passengers and air cargo. Such aircraft are most often operated by airlines. The modern and most common variant of the airliner is a long, tube shaped, and jet powered aircraft. The largest of them are wide-body jets which are…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Pan Am
Defunct flag carrier airline of the United States (1927–1991)
Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States for much of the 20th century. The first…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)