Airborne 747-8
The final development of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet, the 747-8 is airborne in America on the first of its certification flights.It is the start of the last chapter in the 747 story, which began during an
intense period of technological and political rivalry between east and west, and for that matter, became a curtain raiser for today’s rivalry between the aerospace industries of America and Europe.The 747-8F is strictly speaking the second last version of the Boeing 747 line of jumbo jets as it will be followed in perhaps a year’s time by the 748-I passenger version. It has taken off on its first flight from Everett, almost 41 years after the original 747-100 prototype took to the sky on February 9, 1969
