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@stickmann7363
4 жыл бұрын
Lol, "2 weeks ago"
@damekids
4 жыл бұрын
@@stickmann7363 Yeah, they upload it privatised, make sure everything is good to go, and then set it on a timed release. Tons of youtubers do it.
@TBomb85
4 жыл бұрын
Also, sometimes ads need final approval before they're allowed to publish... Or, the advertiser only wants say "6 ads, no closer than 2 weeks together) which gets them roughly 3 months of ads.
@stickmann7363
4 жыл бұрын
@@damekids ohhhh...whoops.
@Snugglebastad
4 жыл бұрын
Nice video But please do the Airbus a380 :)
@GeshronTyler1
4 жыл бұрын
One shouldn't forget, that the 747 was designed "old school"- with slide rules, log tables, scientific calculators, and PAPER Blueprints. Practically no computer aided design tools, let alone the kind of computer modeling available today.
@deadfreightwest5956
4 жыл бұрын
There was a joke, partly tongue-in-cheek, that the blueprints outweighed the finished aircraft.
@chrisbflory
4 жыл бұрын
1965? Yeah, no scientific calculators and no computer aided drafting. Period.
@davidfrench1325
4 жыл бұрын
Haha I like what you said.
@flenz4574
4 жыл бұрын
Not to mention the manual machining, welding, and metal work. Where have these skills gone?
@GeshronTyler1
4 жыл бұрын
Welding? No, no, RIVETS. BY HAND. No automatic riveting robots...
@gersonboav1
4 жыл бұрын
Please Simon, never stop talking about the planes !!
@texastriguy
4 жыл бұрын
Wasn't NEAR enough content on the actual project of making the plane Simon! Lots of cool history, but needed more time in the video to cover the design and manufacturing in much more detail.
@texastriguy
4 жыл бұрын
The 747 paved the way for all modern ultra-larfe aircraft. Newer, bigger aircraft exist ONLY because the 747 paved the way for these successes. Amazing history covered here.
@BradGryphonn
4 жыл бұрын
Hey Simon. How about the Australian Snowy River project? It's relevant because there are plans for another similar project, and arguments over the environmental impact of the original. The project opened up arid land on the West of Australia's Great Dividing range for agriculture. At the time (the 50s) it was one of the largest projects in the world. Or you look at Mt Morgan in Queensland, Australia. It was at one time in history the most lucrative Gold mine in the world with the deepest man-made open-cut pit in the world.
@dbatchison
4 жыл бұрын
You should cover WWII Aircraft manufacturing. The number of planes produced by the US was staggering. Henry Ford's Willow Run plant was rolling out a new B24 Liberator every 63 minutes, 24 hrs/day, 7 days/week at peak production. All told, the US produced over 300,000 airplanes for the US and it's allies between 1939 and 1945
@sylvia5024
4 жыл бұрын
Suggestion. The Boeing Everett Facility would be a great Megaprojects.
@Kadeo-ms6qw
4 жыл бұрын
Simon please make a video on the A-10 thunderbolt
@juliusceasar8987
4 жыл бұрын
Well, you like your aircraft's. What about boing B29 superfortress. I have hear that it rivals the Manhattan project in cost.
@arnepianocanada
2 жыл бұрын
And *unfuelled* range!?? Hahahahaha! You do mean an un-REfuelled range, correct? It's not a glider...😵😁😉
@IsardPragmatique93
4 жыл бұрын
Do the a380 with its parts manufactured in différents countries and all it was to be a megaproject
@templarw20
4 жыл бұрын
The Boeing Everett factory could be its own Megaproject. Been there, had a cousin work there for a while. It's awe inspiring.
@Chris-cv1ll
4 жыл бұрын
Worked there and it is huge. Hearing vs seeing it in person is way different. I agree he should do a video on it Edit: still sad about the 747 lost because of bad riveting that took off the tail in Japan.
@My-Pal-Hal
4 жыл бұрын
@@Chris-cv1ll It wasn't bad riveting. But the story goes as this. THE JAPANESE CAN'T FLY. And had dropped that 747s tail on the runway 3 times. After the 3rd. The rear pressure dome needed more repairs. But on a seem that later was determined needed 3 rows of rivets. But unfortunately the ok'd repair only consisted of 2. Which eventually ended in failure of the pressure dome. Severing hydraulics and damaging the vertical stabilizers. The rest you know.
@My-Pal-Hal
4 жыл бұрын
And the Everett Plant is the largest structure under one roof in the world. And can have it's Own Weather. Spent 11yrs there 🤗 pretty damn cool
@Chris-cv1ll
4 жыл бұрын
@@My-Pal-Hal if you look at the report (even the one Boeing showed during orientation) they cut the plate and gave each side one row of rivets and pack sealed it. It actually lasted longer then isthmus was calculated to be able to withstand
@My-Pal-Hal
4 жыл бұрын
@@Chris-cv1ll That's because that "Pack Seal" as you call it. Is 5-95 B2. And you could probably build and airplane with that stuff. But it is the most used sealant on all Boeing aircraft. And I remember orientation. Haven't heard that for a while 😂 Mine was in 1978 when I started in final assembly in Everett on the 747. And worked on most Everett produced aircraft thru 1991. Including the 707 military projects. It was a great time... And that's just what I remember from my AOG days ☺
@ecktachrome1960
4 жыл бұрын
Dude, really? Air Force One? I was stationed in the Mojave Desert and one Saturday morning watched a 747 fly overhead with a space shuttle strapped to its back. If that isn't special, and two megaprojects for the price of one; then I don't know what is.
@SamanthaGCox
3 жыл бұрын
When I was in elementary school I was in Florida, the teachers had us all go out side to watch the Space shuttle piggy backed on the 747 coming back from its first flight. Because of how close the school was to Kennedy Space Center the plane was already flying low, and it was so big it made several of us duck by instinct! It was fabulous!
@chrislong3938
3 жыл бұрын
I overnighted at Edwards AFB en route to 29 Palms at got to see the Enterprise on top of its 747! It was at night and the plane+shuttle were virtually encased in scaffolding and lit up like daylight! Talk about awe-inspiring!
@Thros1
2 жыл бұрын
Too bad the shuttle was kind of wasted money since it didn't really inspire the public to continue funding space missions with impunity!
@JohnLawley24v
Жыл бұрын
@@Thros1 because it was a bad design. also least safe space craft 14 people died on it.
@mtylerw
4 жыл бұрын
Mega project suggestion: the catacombs of Paris. Moving millions of corpses in the middle of the night. Definitely a mega project.
@alpacamybag9103
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah good call, agreed.
@1986krazy
4 жыл бұрын
Already been done on one of his other channels. Geographics, I think. It's a good watch.
@lukesherwin4137
4 жыл бұрын
Yep, this was done on Geographics. Super great episode.
@--enyo--
4 жыл бұрын
Sounds cool.
@anarchyantz1564
4 жыл бұрын
Already done on Geographics channel. You should subscribe to all (except business blaze) for the full experience.
@jimklein5491
4 жыл бұрын
Suggestion: do the Everett facility. You touched on it but there's so much more to it then just the assembly building. And the logistics of getting all the separate components of an airliner into one place is an impressive feat.
@CorwinPatrick
4 жыл бұрын
And just the numbers involved with the Paint Building are impressive. I worked at Everett in the 80s until just before the expansion project in the 90s for the 777 line.
@michaelerickson5623
4 жыл бұрын
@@CorwinPatrick I work there now. Did you ever get into the tunnels under the factory? The expansion (for 777) has a full network that links a number of them so you can get across the factory without having to dodge forklifts. There's also the new Composite Wing center (built where the old brick "flat-tops" used to be) that are where the composite wings for the new 777X are being built, so the Everett factory site is still growing.
@spottedcrow1126
3 жыл бұрын
Pretty funny, I’m actually watching this video from inside the Everett main factory lol
@joeruth123
3 жыл бұрын
@@spottedcrow1126 get back to work! Lol
@bencolla2419
4 жыл бұрын
megaprojects suggestion : How Simon Whistler took over youtube.
@estudiordl
4 жыл бұрын
He is waiting to his next channel: conspiracy theories. 😜🤣🤣🤣
@Odin029
4 жыл бұрын
He has a channel called side projects or something like that and I couldn't even watch it. It was too much. We both know I'll circle back around to it, but right then, Simon seemed like a youtube stalker. He's around every corner.
@j.a.weishaupt1748
4 жыл бұрын
Stop it.
@workhardism
3 жыл бұрын
Oh, so you mean he hasn't already?
@vocalpro
3 жыл бұрын
Hahahahaha yep
@AllenManor
4 жыл бұрын
In the late 1990's I was stranded in a snowstorm at Vancouver Airport, looking out at the 747 that hundreds of passengers were waiting to board. I struck up a conversation with a man sitting next to me to happened to be a Boeing engineer who was a part of the 747's current design team. He pulled out drawings from his briefcase of the plane and started describing the incredible engineering that the 747 had accrued over the decades and continued to accrue. He then told me, "It is my opinion that this plane is the greatest thing man has ever built. It can reliably transport hundreds of people and cargo thousands of miles in record time and in great comfort. It has bridged continents and cultures and has made trade easier. It has improved human lives ways its designers never envisioned. It transformed the world."
@jeffreypierson2064
4 жыл бұрын
It transformed the world by making intercontinental travel by the public affordable. A middle class kid could pay his own way to Europe for a 2 week tour (my story). A semester abroad was not a one-percenter thing, but an aspiration of the middle class. The internationally well traveled set now could include most college graduates.
@rrai1999
3 жыл бұрын
@@jeffreypierson2064 It's a one percenter thing these days again :(
@conorf8091
3 жыл бұрын
@@jeffreypierson2064 don’t need to be middle class to afford a flight ticket buddy...
@OOZ662
3 жыл бұрын
@@conorf8091 Pretty much do to be able to afford the rest of the trip expenses, though.
@monetarnie3841
2 жыл бұрын
And it will be one percenter thing eventually. Back to how it was. Travelling only for the rich.
@CB-db1qx
4 жыл бұрын
I've said it once, I'll say it again: US Interstate System!
@pottierkurt1702
4 жыл бұрын
Why? Just make the roman or even better the mongolian road system. It was way bigger and way more impressive.
@well_as_an_expert_id_say
4 жыл бұрын
@@pottierkurt1702 But can you land bombers on those brick roads? Jk, they are pretty badass though
@bizziebone773
4 жыл бұрын
That would b awesome
@laetrille
4 жыл бұрын
Yes!!
@laetrille
4 жыл бұрын
@@pottierkurt1702 Impressive for the time maybe but the Interstate system is probably the biggest project ever conceived to date. I love the I-10 :)
@kevintemple245
4 жыл бұрын
In 1970 Pan Am was not allowed to fly domestic routes, hence the international flight to London. It was the shortest Pan Am route that could handle the 747 at the time.
@MrGottaQuestion
2 жыл бұрын
Very important point! I forget "deregulation" of airlines used to actually be a political issue.
@mitchellrenton6044
4 жыл бұрын
The 747 will always be the Jumbo Jet. Not the old or new, just 'The Jumbo'.
@drmattconrad77
4 жыл бұрын
I like big Boeings and I cannot lie, other commenters can’t deny, when a plane goes to land with triple slotted flaps I have to stand up and clap ....
@kevintemple245
4 жыл бұрын
Well done, sir. Well done.
@Erik-rp1hi
4 жыл бұрын
You don't want to deploy those early.
@drmattconrad77
3 жыл бұрын
@Tediuki Suzuki I was making a joke based on a song. It’s intentionally wrong to match the lyrical pacing.
@Vyppaaa11
4 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, the 747 has a hardpoint on the left wing near the root which can be fitted with a 5th engine. Although the hardpoint has no provisions for making the engine function while in flight, it was a key design feature that allowed airlines to transport replacement engines to their maintenance facilities without the need for a separate cargo flights. BONUS FACT: Virgin Galactic recently used this hardpoint to launch one of their test rockets from under the wing of their retired 747.
@studinthemaking
3 жыл бұрын
Didn’t know either of those facts
@Vyppaaa11
3 жыл бұрын
@@studinthemaking I am full of useless knowledge that would only be useful in Simon's videos lol
@tonyzed6831
3 жыл бұрын
Bonus bonus fact, they reached orbit two weeks ago. Woohoo !!!!
@flatbill2
4 жыл бұрын
Just so happens I'm watching this at the Boeing site in Everett.
@moose2577
4 жыл бұрын
GET BACK TO WORK! Lol
@steeljawX
4 жыл бұрын
Any way you can get this to play instead of the really cheesy "pre-flight" instruction video? I feel like I'd learn more every time.
@flatbill2
4 жыл бұрын
@@moose2577 it's my day off... But had to get a new badge before Monday 🤦
@jeffreypierson2064
4 жыл бұрын
I was going to laugh about the "Lazy B", but you are on your day off.
@Chris-cv1ll
4 жыл бұрын
What line? I was on 767 aft assembly until the first layoffs on july 31st...
@bbelvito
4 жыл бұрын
As someone who builds the 747 i love this. The plane is truly special and a dream to work on. 11 left to build as of today. hopefully the plane will live on :)
@applejacks971
4 жыл бұрын
First flight of the 747 "Let's fly across the Atlantic...", and it made it 20 minutes faster. *White Star Line has left the chat*
@kostasastro
4 жыл бұрын
Since we are at the subject of Boeing, Simon you should do a megaproject for the B-29 (especially) and the B-17
@Flies2FLL
4 жыл бұрын
Boeing took the B-29 fuselage and added a second, wider fuselage on top of it to create the Boeing 367/377 airliners from the '50's. Then, in 1953 they took this figure-8 shaped fuselage cross section, filled in the recesses, and produced an egg shaped fuselage section for their new 367-80 aircraft. The 367-80 had another name: Boeing 707.
@kellyheath8547
4 жыл бұрын
We peaked at 5 a day out of Renton. Pretty good for a swamp on the edge of a lake.
@sierravortec2494
4 жыл бұрын
I’m ok with a video on every plane, just saying.
@Omegatonboom
4 жыл бұрын
Except your plane of existence! Was that even funny? No? Sorry.
@Jude74
4 жыл бұрын
Fellow aviation geek nodding head in complete agreement.
@maxxlr8tion578
4 жыл бұрын
OK, lets get on with it!
@kennyduarte783
4 жыл бұрын
Aviation geek in training, totally ok with this.
@pamelamays4186
4 жыл бұрын
Suggestions for future Megaprojects: The construction of the Pentagon. The construction of the first large airports. The Taj Mahal. The construction of Disneyland and Disney World. Las Vegas, from small sleepy desert town to the gambling capital of the world. Greek and Roman temples. Buckingham Palace.
@ziggy2shus624
4 жыл бұрын
Las Vegas When the incompetent commie boy Castro cut off future billions and billions of US tourist jet travel dollars.....Vegas with legal gambling and jet travel was created. Think how wealthy Cuba would be today if it wasn't for the nutcase Castro. Before jet travel, Vegas was almost totally dependent on visitors driving in from LA.
@Viper-dn8ix
4 жыл бұрын
I am honestly HERE for more airports to be covered on this channel.
@dorsk84
4 жыл бұрын
The building of Disney parks is covered in Disney+ imagineering series. It's really indepth.
@Terri_MacKay
4 жыл бұрын
@@ziggy2shus624 I thought that in 1962 Kennedy imposed a full trade embargo on Cuba and prohibited all Americans from travelling to Cuba. 🤔
@ziggy2shus624
4 жыл бұрын
@@Terri_MacKay I believe that was due to Castro taking over many US owned businesses without compensation to the owners. Plus, Castro coming out as an extreme communist, when the US was worried about communism taking over the whole world. Castro didn't see the great tourist age coming.
@anarchyantz1564
4 жыл бұрын
Megaproject Suggestion. Longest deep bore ice core in Antarctica. Took years, loads of drama with it and they found some cool stuff like a fresh water lake under the ice containing previously unknown lifeforms. Would go Well with the other hole projects that are popular Speaking of deep holes, how about the Kidd Mine as well?
@xavierz6687
4 жыл бұрын
Wow so kids actually come from the kid mine?
@choughed3072
4 жыл бұрын
@@xavierz6687 my kids come from a kid mine, though my wife hates it when I call it that.
@u0aol1
4 жыл бұрын
I know of a few deep holes I can also direct you towards
@anarchyantz1564
4 жыл бұрын
@@u0aol1 Well I know of the Kola super deep hole and the Gottshard tunnel, chunnel and so on but new deep holes are always appreciated.
@Ginrikuzuma
4 жыл бұрын
Ah yess the Kidd Mine the boot camp that turns a profit with approved labor
@CorwinPatrick
4 жыл бұрын
"Special" editions of the 747, and no mention of the version that carried the Space Shuttle?
@robertc.fisher3214
4 жыл бұрын
the SCA or the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft prob could have an episode of it's own. It was bought through a front company, 2 were actually purchased, and extensively modified for the mission. I actually got to go abord one of the SCA's at Kennedy Space Center and we shot an interview in the cockpit for a project about the space shuttle about 10 years ago. Fun Times.
@lynnmccurdythehdmmrc2561
4 жыл бұрын
@@robertc.fisher3214 I live in Palmdale, Ca. Just South of Edwards AFB. One of the planes mentioned, is parked at an air-park down the street from us. They couldn't get their hands on a Shuttle for the park, but did the plane that carried the shuttle. It is so big, driving up the 14 frwy from Los Angeles, you can see it from across the valley.
@robertc.fisher3214
4 жыл бұрын
@@lynnmccurdythehdmmrc2561 They decommissioned one of the SCA's after the last shuttle was delivered and kept another for a high altitude research telescope. There was a press day at Edwards years ago that I missed about that craft.
@My-Pal-Hal
4 жыл бұрын
@@robertc.fisher3214 You may be referring to "SOFIA". Which is a 747SP ☺
@robertc.fisher3214
4 жыл бұрын
@@My-Pal-Hal You are correct. The two SCAs are a 747-100-N905NA, the first, and the second which is N911NA is a 747SR which is much longer than the 747SP. N911NA is actually a spare parts donor for SOFIA. N905NA is on display in Houston. I just remember they had mentioned using one of the SCAs for the SOFIA program. This was in 2011 so everything changes.
@ziggy2shus624
4 жыл бұрын
I remember when the 747s were introduced and the big advertising gimmick was a piano bar in the airplane.
@sisenor4091
3 жыл бұрын
I remember the piano 🎹. Right on the second floor. I was like 7 years old, I think. I don’t remember exactly how I got there. Probably going to the bathroom and taking a detour to the stairs.
@bodegacoast
4 жыл бұрын
Saw one of the firefighting 747 Supertankers flying only a few hundred feet overhead at the Sonoma and Napa wildfires this past Summer. Watching something big enough to have its own zip-code flying almost on the deck is incredible!
@kentucky_official2440
4 жыл бұрын
I think a good project idea would be the us m1a1 main battle tank. Or the other variants.
@munozcampos
4 жыл бұрын
Good one👌
@Strothy2
4 жыл бұрын
just do the Leopard 2A7 way better... because you know... it's made from Kruppstahl xD
@le_travie7724
4 жыл бұрын
Yes tanks.
@steeljawX
4 жыл бұрын
Honestly, the Leopard and Challenger are better, or rather more interesting projects in my opinion. Reason being that the Abrams for the large part has always been a success. Not the most successful or the absolute best at all areas, but it's done it's job and it's done it well. The Challenger I and Leopard 2 had some. . . . interesting features that ended up changing or not appearing in Challenger II and Leopard 2. I'd include the Leclerc, but the French are so uptight about it that we hardly have any hard data on it.
@AK-gg5nh
3 жыл бұрын
M1a2 abrams or the new M1a3!
@matthewkubinec1620
4 жыл бұрын
Megaprojects suggestion: the Arecibo radio telescope. It isn't the biggest anymore, but it set the standard for radio frequency observation of the stars.
@Mugdorna
4 жыл бұрын
And quite relevant considering the recent mishap there.
@benjaminmackinnon8448
4 жыл бұрын
West Edmonton Mall. Biggest in the world when it was built. Still has the largest indoor Waterpark in the world, and I think one of the worlds larger indoor roller-coaster
@My-Pal-Hal
4 жыл бұрын
And the Boeing Everett Plant, Being the largest structure under one roof in the World. Has it's Own Weather 😂 really
@jcmount1305
4 жыл бұрын
Now so one the 747 assembly building at Paine Field Everett, WA. Also the A380 is out of production, the 747 is still in production, 50 years.
@dongiovanni4331
4 жыл бұрын
Aw. No mention of the SOFIA telescope. They cut a hole in a 747 to point a massive telescope out of.
@mrbyzantine0528
4 жыл бұрын
Another missed oppurtunity!
@simongeard4824
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that was my reaction too... maybe not as famous as the VC-25, but SOFIA has to be the coolest thing ever done with a 747. Of course, he didn't mention the Shuttle transport either...
@mikecowen6507
4 жыл бұрын
Or the 747SP
@apolloniaaskew9487
4 жыл бұрын
@@mikecowen6507 SOFIA is a 747SP.
@mikecowen6507
4 жыл бұрын
@@apolloniaaskew9487 Yes! But an SP is not SOFIA
@economicsinaction
4 жыл бұрын
0:17 Wait... what.. I thought this channel was the *Simon's Beard Fan Group*
@ricardoabh3242
4 жыл бұрын
Yea it very confusing lol
@Naviss
4 жыл бұрын
She will always been the Queen of the skies. Such a gorgeous aircraft. It will be a sad day when she is finally retired. Hopefully AirForce One will keep a couple in the skies for another couple decades.
@keithmarriott1210
4 жыл бұрын
I had the decided great fortune to command Qantas’ last 747 commercial flight so I viewed with considerable nostalgia your well presented video.....thank you...
@bartlettdieball2678
4 жыл бұрын
How about doing one on the Very Large Array in New Mexico?
@Omegatonboom
4 жыл бұрын
Just watch season one of X-Files and you'll be set.
@RCAvhstape
4 жыл бұрын
You should've mentioned some of the other special versions of the 747, such as the 747SP shortened version, the one the USAF turned into a giant flying laser cannon to shoot down missiles, or the 2 modified Shuttle Carrier Aircraft used by NASA to ferry space shuttles around. After they retired the space shuttle they used the SCA one last time to carry Discovery to Dulles Airport and they did a low altitude flyby over the Mall in Washington DC. I was there at the time and there were crowds of people outside cheering as Discovery passed overhead about 3 times aboard the 747 with a fighter jet flying formation, before peeling of to the west to land at Dulles.
@SewolHoONCE
4 жыл бұрын
See my reply to Simon Leblanc on the same subject.
@MrBibi86
Жыл бұрын
I aslo think there are a couple of 747's that have been made into private jets
@averagegingernut434
4 жыл бұрын
Anyone else see the notification and think "I thought he would have done this by now?"
@Joe_Potts
4 жыл бұрын
To be fair, he didnt do a skyscraper until like episode 15
@AverytheCubanAmerican
4 жыл бұрын
The Queen of the Skies! Sad to see them getting retired
@tyleraird6450
4 жыл бұрын
I feel the most interesting feature of the 747-100 was the wing twist that the engineers put into place after the first flight to aid in stability for the passengers and control of the aircraft. They designed this solely out of necessity because of the instability of the flight characteristics originally. Its a feature carried through each version until the wing redesign for the 747-800.
@jonglazer9416
4 жыл бұрын
Suggestion: The zeppelin hangar in Akron, Ohio. - It's own weather, indoor skydive practice, connection to roswell and/or the atomic bomb and more.
@tylermanson8660
4 жыл бұрын
I think the Everett facility would be a great Mega projects there's a lot of little facts such as the overpass that crosses over Boeing freeway to Paine Field that Boeing only uses at night to transport Jets from one location to the other because it has caused some car accidents do to people thinking that Jets a crash landing on the freeway
@sandy1653
4 жыл бұрын
I'm going to suggest Boeing's Everett facility as the next project.
@tncorgi92
4 жыл бұрын
The one time I had a chance to fly on a 747, from Atlanta, they overbooked and I got bumped to a DC-10. Though those are pretty impressive craft as well.
@wietzepost
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I don't know what it was about the DC-10, but I enjoyed flying on it more than the 747. Even so, the 747 was great to fly on!
@J3scribe
4 жыл бұрын
The original P&W turbofans made a sound like no other. Instantly recognizable as a 747. I grew up under the flight path of one of Chicago O'Hare's runways during the 1970s and heard thousands of those marvelous machines fly by overhead. They were an instant favorite of mine.
@pensepf49
4 жыл бұрын
On March 27, 1977, the deadliest aviation accident in history occurred when KLM Flight 4805 collided on the runway with Pan Am 1736 in heavy fog at Tenerife Airport, resulting in 583 fatalities. Both aircraft were 747s. There were 61 survivors, all from the Pan Am 747. The Pan Am aircraft was the first 747 that entered commercial service
@jamesgornall5731
4 жыл бұрын
Damn, I didnt know it was the first one. Tenerife disaster was unreal.
@sagardhawan4136
4 жыл бұрын
9:00 That back-up plane later crashed at Tenerife in the worst air crash in the history of aviation.
@vonkerman8168
4 жыл бұрын
At 6:04 you show a 747, the ‘City of Everett’. That is actually the very first one made, 747-001, same plane shown at 7:45 for the unveiling. It is on display at Boeing’s Museum of Flight at Boeing field, Everett Wa. It was so weird stepping into the first one made vs more recent ones!
@mountvernon5267
4 жыл бұрын
And that airframe was a testbed for many research projects. If you go on board and walk back to the tail you'll see a setup for mid-air refueling, a leftover from when they were considering using the 747 as a tanker, and for additional development work on Boeing's 'Flying Boom' refueling system. When I was stationed in Germany (1978-1981) one of the guys in my unit flew home to New Jersey for his father's retirement party. He flew over, attended the retirement and dinner, and flew back. His flight back was on a Lufthansa 747, and he was the only passenger, with the entire cabin crew at his disposal (think for a moment about what *that* per-passenger fuel cost must have been!). The aircraft and crew were going from JFK in NY to Frankfurt, and it was an unscheduled repositioning flight where he somehow managed to grab a seat. The relocated him from his assigned seat in the main cabin up to the lounge deck and he and most of the cabin crew had a pretty good overnight party crossing the Atlantic.
@dlayman101
4 жыл бұрын
14billion dollar bet payed off didn’t it. Moral of the story, greatness requires risk.
@gingerman5123
4 жыл бұрын
The 747 is really an amazing aircraft with an amazing history. It's 4 engines is a big reason it was selected to again be the base for the new versions of "Air Force One".
@therealhari__
4 жыл бұрын
YES!!!! MORE PLANES MORE PLANES MORE PLANES MORE PLANES!!!!!
@YuunaAndCuddles
4 жыл бұрын
RIP Joe Sutter. His legacy lives on.
@columnedfox5508
4 жыл бұрын
AKA the father of the 747
@sparky6086
4 жыл бұрын
What a great combination. Malcolm Stamper was President of Boeing in those days, and he was a Georgia Tech engineer, so he knew how to support the great Joe Sutter and stay out of his way, if need be. "Can do" types of people, who knew what they were doing. Sutter and Stamper weren't clueless sociopath posers, like Boeing's last president!
@jb76489
4 жыл бұрын
I’d love to hear some stuff about NATO during the Cold War, war games, plans for if the Soviet Union invaded etc
@SilvanaDil
4 жыл бұрын
I'll always remember flying on this as a little kid in '71. Our seats were by the wing. The stewardesses gave me and my friend colorform sets, etc. and we played with them on the large floor space in front of our seats.
@well_as_an_expert_id_say
4 жыл бұрын
Simon you should do a video on the Boeing Everett facility in general, its the largest building in the entire WORLD by volume. It was so massive that clouds would accumulate near the ceiling, before they developed a new cutting edge HVAC system. Would be super, super interesting to us.
@jphilm
4 жыл бұрын
Sorry, but there is no factory wide HVAC system. Only the office/enclosed areas have conditioned air. As it is the electrical bill is $65k/day.
@well_as_an_expert_id_say
4 жыл бұрын
@@jphilm I forgive you
@well_as_an_expert_id_say
4 жыл бұрын
@@jphilm You're 100% wrong as I've found out. There are definitely hvac systems and you really tried to sway me with false information lol nice.
@jphilm
3 жыл бұрын
@@well_as_an_expert_id_say Never said that there weren't HVAC systems, the factory floor (you know, the largest part of the building's volume) is not air conditioned. science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/boeings-everett-facility-is-largest-building-on-earth.htm
@jphilm
3 жыл бұрын
@@well_as_an_expert_id_say I understand, you're not an expert at google. Feel free to post a link that features the factory's HVAC system www.bbc.com/future/article/20181211-what-its-like-to-work-in-the-biggest-building-in-the-world
@steeljawX
4 жыл бұрын
Simon, here's an underrated and unspoken "megaproject" that you covered, kinda, in a TIFO video. Seatbelts. The whole project Colonel John Stapp did. The whole production of seatbelts is probably very minuscule in the scheme of things, but having a human repeatedly uh. . . . . Rocket-sled-chair-handled couldn't have been on a dollar special. Er, I guess it'd be a quid special for you locally.
@Boberman286
4 жыл бұрын
Sideprojects idea, canceled warplanes, like the avro arrow
@waterwarrior2626
4 жыл бұрын
Megaprojects suggestions: The early jets, the Dehaviland comet and the gloster meteor of you haven’t done a video about them already
@ChannelBlaino
4 жыл бұрын
@Michael Jones There anything but shitty, DeHaviland Comet for example is a fascinating aircraft it was the first commercial jet aircraft and as a result of early accidents it revolutionised the way in which air crash investigations were conducted and through the discovery as a result of the airplanes design it changed how airplanes were designed had it not been for the Comet disasters the American jets such as the 707 & DC-8 would of had the same issues
@jonadabtheunsightly
4 жыл бұрын
The 747 is the aircraft model everyone has _heard of_, but I would argue that the 737 is more iconic in other ways. It's so common (roughly ten times as common as the 747) that people don't even know its model number; it's just pretty much the one and only model of plane that people think of when they think of a generic "passenger jet", not the glamorous huge 747 but just a regular ordinary workhorse passenger aircraft -- the 737 is the de facto "regular" airplane.
@AnnicK.Zoloft
4 жыл бұрын
Every single time i have heard a none aviation person talk about airliners without using the word "plane", they said 747, as if it was synonymous. If you show anyone a picture of a 747 they will recognize it as such. If you ask anyone to name an airliner they know, they will say 747. There isnt a single way in which the 73 is more iconic, it being more common does not make it an icon. Thats what you said too, its generic, the 747 is not generic, its the best there is, thats why everyone knows it.
@jonadabtheunsightly
4 жыл бұрын
@@AnnicK.Zoloft What I mean is, if you ask a hundred thousand random people off the street to each draw an airplane, most of them are going to say "I can't draw" and refuse to try, and most of the ones who do try are going to draw something too simple and stylized to be any specific model of plane; but of the people who do draw a recognizable airplane, most of them are going to draw a 737, a couple of people may draw a 727, and the rest will draw various military planes (the F-15, the F-117, the Fokker Dr.I, the A6M Zero, the A-10, etc.)
@AnnicK.Zoloft
4 жыл бұрын
@@jonadabtheunsightly If they drew a generic looking twin jet, why would that automatically make it a 737, instead of any other generic looking twin jet? Doesnt make sense to me.
@alexmentes1348
4 жыл бұрын
Simon, you missed one of the best features of the 747 with Pan Am: Dine in the Sky! The upper deck had a round table, that if I remember seated about 12 first class passengers for a gourmet dining event. Truly the epitome of non-private air travel .
@KevAlberta
4 жыл бұрын
This was my favorite plane ever since I rode it as a kid. And the as a teen for probably the last time. I wish I savored that moment
@LiamFlebu
4 жыл бұрын
Please make a documentary on the RT-2PM2 Also known as Topol-M (NATO: SS-27 Stalin Sickle B) Russia’s mobile nuclear missiles!
@Xerethane
4 жыл бұрын
The 747 is amazing and just plain cool. Just the building they made the 747 in might be considered a mega project. At the time of construction it was the largest building in the world and it even started generating cloud formation inside it till they installed a massive air conditioning system
@doubler8684
4 жыл бұрын
Megaproject topics: Very Large Array in New Mexico, Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona and the Morenci Copper Mine also in Arizona.
@kuhljager2429
4 жыл бұрын
The kennecott copper mine as well. One of the few you can see from space
@SovereignwindVODs
4 жыл бұрын
I dont know who would think planes aren't mega projects. Those things have to meet such tight engineering guidelines just to fly in the first place. Now to be to SAFE while flying? Its so expensive and time consuming and you can't even be 100% sure its safe until its been operating for a while since not all issues are always readily apparent.
@f1freakf127
4 жыл бұрын
Boeing 747 is a megaproject that shaped the airline industry
@heatherbee4248
4 жыл бұрын
I'm so excited for this one, my dad helped work on the onboard computers on these and !!!! Thank you, simon and crew, you guys are the best 🖤
@bb400dart2
4 жыл бұрын
You didn’t talk about the one that piggyback the space shuttle
@Jaeh1
4 жыл бұрын
.....or the Stubby 747SP. Not many people have seen that one. I have seen 2.
@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
4 жыл бұрын
Megaprojects suggestion: American Dream Meadowlands (Xanadu) mall. Now that it's finally open I think it's worth talking about. It has some very interesting history. A dive into NJ politics
@jasonparsons6444
4 жыл бұрын
Suggestion: Lake Pontchartrain causeway bridge. Longest continuous bridge over water in the world.
@davethetaswegian
4 жыл бұрын
How about doing the de Haviland Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner.
@hanschristianben505
4 жыл бұрын
Space Shuttle Program later please, its a definite megaproject for sure P.S. former 747 cruise relief pilot here
@raipo
4 жыл бұрын
How about NASA's vehicle assembly facility?
@chinedyi.7818
4 жыл бұрын
Megaproject idea: I.T.E.R. Plz vote for it.
@kuhljager2429
4 жыл бұрын
ITER would be a good one. I would love to see it. But I also think that it would be a better video once its been brought online
@hawkeye7527
4 жыл бұрын
I won't vote if I don't know what it is xD
@kuhljager2429
4 жыл бұрын
@@hawkeye7527 Its a Tokamak Fusion Reactor that is projected to be the first to be net power positive. Its an international endeavor, involving most of the 1st world countries.
@hawkeye7527
4 жыл бұрын
@@kuhljager2429 Awesome!
@madmaximus2836
4 жыл бұрын
"not the coolest aircraft". Sorry, you are wrong. It still is the coolest passenger aircraft ever build. It did smash you like button though.
@baronvonjo1929
4 жыл бұрын
If your doing planes. Do ocean liners. They bigger. Queen Mary, Normandie, United States.
@calvinfriend5143
3 жыл бұрын
My great great uncle Frank Albright was in charge of designing the landing gear for the 747. He also was the project engineer on the Vought f4u Corsair
@friendbesto_corey
4 жыл бұрын
Side Project: Tennessee Valley Authority
@anthonybanchero3072
4 жыл бұрын
Has he done Grand Coulee yet.
@friendbesto_corey
4 жыл бұрын
@@anthonybanchero3072 I don’t think so
@prmeth3utempet339
4 жыл бұрын
MEGA project suggestion : ss normandie the largest turbo electric powered ship ever built
@hesstwentyone
4 жыл бұрын
Roll the clock back twenty-five years and you have almost the same situation involving the government, Pan American, and an airframe design capable of being a bomber, cargo plane, or a passenger craft. I highly, highly recommend the Convair B-36 / XC-99 / model 37.
@aaronryan553
4 жыл бұрын
that would be a good one
@rahulj8221
4 жыл бұрын
Its kind a emotional and inspiring to think that one of the last 747s in the air will be carrying the president of the country which introduced flight to mankind
@kitbag9033
3 жыл бұрын
What? A French man? (Thinking of the Montgomery brothers and first balloon flights).
@RobertBeaubien
4 жыл бұрын
Hey Simon, A good mega project would be the Falcon9/Falcon Heavy from SapceX. That's a good example of large, private sector projects.
@stickmann7363
4 жыл бұрын
I was wondering, could you do one on a rocket from SpaceX or NASA (Starship, Falcon 9/Heavy, SLS...) or the B-17/
@MrLurchsThings
3 жыл бұрын
For so many years, a 747 with the red flying kangaroo on the tail was such an iconic site here in Australia.
@edrdnc6706
4 жыл бұрын
Mega-project Suggestion: Virginia-class submarines (the the first warship designed with the help of computer-aided design (CAD) and 3-D visualization). Note the huge savings in weight and storage space on-board for the blueprints. Now on a few computer disks rather than a closet full of paper.
@johnnymittens77
4 жыл бұрын
English Electric Lightning Especially the particular one that left concorde behind on a head to head race!
@BLACKAAROW
4 жыл бұрын
suggestion: the twin towers from the world trade center
@stephendtto
4 жыл бұрын
SUGGESTION: The St. Lawrence Seaway, A mega project from 60 years ago that joined the Atlantic to The Great Lakes for shipping and created over 1,000,000,000 kW of hydroelectric power.
@panaberaa
4 жыл бұрын
The tragedy that is the Berlin Airport would be interesting
@CLangbakk
4 жыл бұрын
Great content but a mention of SOFIA would have been nice :)
@tyraqueen2001
4 жыл бұрын
The 747 will always be the Queen of the Skies.
@jmbleuv
4 жыл бұрын
The 747 is my favorite Airplane. I fangirl out when I see one. I would like to see it compared to the 777.
@singular9
4 жыл бұрын
Mega Project, the tsar bomba
@buxeessingh2571
4 жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to fly one of the first 10 747's on Pan Am flights 1 and 2 in 1970. They gave kids tours of the hump and had models for every parent that requested them. As a youngster, it was just the coolest aircraft ever. I can still recall how mind-blowing that hump was.
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