Jumbo: The Making of the Boeing 747 - Hardcover

Gall, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250155800 ISBN 13: 9781250155801

Verlag: St Martin's Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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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Chris Gall earned a degree in fine arts from the University of Arizona and is the author and illustrator of a dozen acclaimed books, including Dinotrux, a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of the Year, The Littlest Train, Dog Vs. Cat, and Go For the Moon. Chris lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: St Martin's Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1250155800
• ISBN 13: 9781250155801
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 48
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