Jumbo: The Making of the Boeing 747
Jumbo: The Making of the Boeing 747
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Jumbo: The Making of the Boeing 747

Written and illustrated by Chris Gall
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Aug 4, 2020
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For the 50th anniversary of the Boeing 747’s first commercial flight, a picture book about the development of the iconic passenger plane and how it changed the history of air travel. In 1968, the biggest passenger jet the world had ever seen premiered in Everett, Washington. The giant plane was called the Boeing 747, but reporters named it “the Jumbo jet.” There was only one problem. It couldn’t fly. Yet. Jumbo details the story of the world’s first wide body passenger jet, which could hold more people than any other plane at the time and played a pivotal role in allowing middle class families to afford overseas travel. Author and illustrator Chris Gall, himself a licensed pilot, shows how an innovative design, hard work by countless people, and ground-breaking engineering put the Jumbo jet in the air. On January 22, 1970, the Boeing 747 made it’s first transatlantic flight, taking passengers from New York to Paris in seven hours.

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Book Details

ISBN
9781250155801
Publication Date
August 4, 2020
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Page Count
48
Audience
Picture
Reading Age
5 - 8 years
Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
2019948763
WorldCat Number (OCLC)
1104438676

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