Other editions of book Boeing 747

This jet is the biggest commercially built passenger aircraft in the world. It is built in the biggest building in the world. It carries the President of the United States of America. It ferries the space shuttle. It will soon blast missiles out of the sky with a laser.

Examines the history of the world's largest and fastest commercial jet, the Boeing 747-400, including some of the challenges faced in design and construction and how its builders tested the limits of technology.