Boeing 747 People ExpressPeople Express 747 airplane model. The hugely significant 747 revolutionized airline transport. Far bigger than anything before it, the 747 slashed operating costs per seat and thus cut the cost of long haul international airline travel. Boeing conceived the 747 in the mid 1960s following its failure to secure a US Air Force contract for an ultra large strategic transport (which resulted in the Lockheed C 5 Galaxy), when it identified a market for a

selected aircraft were returned to a tanker configuration (KC-97L) primarily for the Air National Guard

was among the first Allied fighters to down a Japanese airplane

The H-3 is a twin engine

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the number of internal compartments increased from three to six and the size of the crew was doubled

This modernized replacement for the C-135 and C-22 builds on Boeing's 737-700 platform with enhanced 737-800 wings and landing gear

Wingspan 13 1/8 inches

General Dynamics EF-111 airplane model

Northrop YF-23 Black Widow airplane model

a single-place

Cessna 210s produced after 1966 had a cantilever wing