{"id":550823,"date":"2023-01-30T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=550823"},"modified":"2023-01-30T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T05:52:35","slug":"boeings-747-the-original-jumbo-jet-prepares-for-final-send-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeings-747-the-original-jumbo-jet-prepares-for-final-send-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s 747, the original jumbo jet, prepares for final send-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing\u2019s 747, the original and arguably most aesthetic \u201cJumbo Jet\u201d, revolutionized air travel only to see its more than five-decade reign as \u201cQueen of the Skies\u201d ended by more efficient twinjet planes.<\/p>\n<p>The last commercial Boeing jumbo will be delivered to Atlas Air in the surviving freighter version on Tuesday, 53 years after the 747\u2019s instantly recognizable humped silhouette grabbed global attention as a Pan Am passenger jet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the ground it\u2019s stately, it\u2019s imposing,\u201d said Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of Iron Maiden who piloted a specially liveried 747 nicknamed \u201cEd Force One\u201d during the British heavy metal band\u2019s tour in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing\u2019s 747, the original and arguably most aesthetic \u201cJumbo Jet\u201d, revolutionized air travel only to see its more than five-decade reign as \u201cQueen of the Skies\u201d ended by more efficient twinjet planes. The last commercial Boeing jumbo will be delivered to Atlas Air in the surviving freighter version on Tuesday, 53 years after the 747\u2019s instantly recognizable humped silhouette grabbed global attention as a Pan Am passenger jet. \u201cOn the ground it\u2019s stately, it\u2019s imposing,\u201d said Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of Iron Maiden who piloted a specially liveried 747 nicknamed \u201cEd Force One\u201d during the British heavy metal band\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}