{"product_id":"9781526760029","title":"Flight Craft 24: Boeing 747 : The Original Jumbo Jet (Flight Craft)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoeing's 747 'heavy' has achieved a fifty-year reign of the airways, but now airlines are retiring their fleets as a different type of long-haul airliner emerges. Yet the ultimate development of the 747, the -800 model, will ply the airways for many years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEven as twin-engine airliners increasingly dominate long-haul operations and the story of the four-engine Airbus A380 slows, the world is still a different place thanks to the great gamble that Boeing took with its 747. From early, difficult days designing and proving the world's biggest-ever airliner, the 747 has grown into a 400-ton leviathan capable of encircling the world. Boeing took a massive billion-dollar gamble and won.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaking its maiden flight in February 1969, designing and building the 747 was a huge challenge and involved new fields of aerospace technology. Multiple fail-safe systems were designed, and problems developing the engines put the whole programme at risk. Yet the issues were solved and the 747 flew like a dream said pilots - belying its size and sheer scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its distinctive hump and an extended upper-deck allied to airframe, avionics and engine developments, 747 became both a blue-riband airliner and, a mass-economy class travel device. Fitted with ultra-efficient Rolls-Royce engines, 747s became long-haul champions all over the world, notably on Pacific routes. across the Atlantic in January 1970, 747 became the must-have, four-engine, long haul airframe. Japan Airlines, for example, operated over sixty 747s in the world's biggest 747 fleet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the renowned aviation author Lance Cole, this book provides a detailed yet engaging commentary on the design engineering and operating life and times of civil aviation's greatest sub-sonic achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Air World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48223780274411,"sku":"EB_HC1000_H01-01_SIMS","price":38.52,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781526760029-1.jpg?v=1785976022","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781526760029","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}