Inside The 1st Boeing 747 "City of Everett" Cockpit & Cabin Interior
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2013
- This is the 747 Jumbo Jet that Boeing bet the house on. It's very rare that the Museum of Flight offers tours of this aircraft, but for the month of August 2013 they've put it on display during the weekends.
First flight in 1969 followed by a lengthy career until 1996 when it finished out testing engines for the 777 program. The museum is now in the process of slowly restoring the 747-100 close to what it looked like back in the 70's. 
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In the late 1970's or early '80's I worked as a police photographer for the PD in Las Vegas, Nevada. One day, I got a call out at McCarren Airport - a man had broken through a fence and had tried to steal a parked airplane. He didn't get very far, but I had to go out and photograph the whole thing, a hole in the fence, a damaged car, etc. Fortunately, the airplane he was interested in was undamaged. While I was there, one of the Metro PD Airport Police Officers knew that I liked airplanes, so he put me in his official airport car and drove across the airport with his yellow lights flashing, talking to the tower, etc. He went to an area I had never seen before. And there it was! We parked next to a beautiful Emerald Green Boeing 747 - the first one ever made, he said. I got to get out and walk around under it. It was HUGE! I'll never forget it. It had "City of Everett" marked on the side. The green was a kind of preservative, maybe zinc chromate, I don't know. But it was beautiful, and huge! They were keeping it in Vegas for storage for a while. It's nice to know that this old friend finally made its way home! Well done, everybody! Well done Indeed! -- Old Man Bob
Great story! If you ever make it up this way be sure to check it out.
#FredFerd Hey thanks so much for sharing your 'City of Everett' adventure .... I just love these kind of added experience's
really helps to color in the complete picture :)
My wife's father, Mr Edwin Gessele, just out out of Naval Aviation in 1948, only had two real jobs in life...The first was serving this country in the South Pacific in Naval Aviation and the 2nd was his 40 years with the Boeing Company in flight Test in Seattle where had the distinction of being the CREW CHIEF on this very airplane..for over 20 years. He flew most everywhere with RA001 in the many test programs it was used for. He was also the lead crew chief that accompanied all of the world sales demonstration tours including the 767 world sales tour after which he retired in 1988. He told us of many wonderful flights and events with this amazing airplane. Mr Gessele recently passed away at age 92 and he was truly a major part of the great old Boeing crews that somehow get overlooked today So we have this wonderful newly restored first of its kind 747 always to be remembered as the Queen of the Skies to remind us of him and his many co workers he often spoke of and those great years of service to Boeing many of which was spent in this very airplane. .
god whats with you americans and "serving youre country". he was an aircraft mechanic, nobody cares, hes not a hero, get over it. you make it sound like he was chuck yeager
"City of Everett" has been fully restored to its original 1968 rollout livery, complete with the logos of the airlines who purchased the 747.
Kevin Meno Been meaning to get around to making an updated video. They did a great job on the restored version!
Please do that!! I'd love to see your video of her fully restored. I saw her a few years back and was surprised the museum had let her deteriorate like she had. I know it costs a ton of money but it would seem like restoration would have been something obvious as time goes by. So as soon as you get the chance, PLEASE post your video of the restored City of Everette!!! What a beautiful aircraft.
Where does the plane currently reside?
Não entendi?
@@smaze1782 the Boeing museum in Seattle
I never realized the upper deck space in the City of Everett 747 was basically not used and just had framing and piping in it, interesting!
I was pretty upset about the condition of that beautiful aircraft until I read it had been repainted. So glad they took care of the old bnb girl.
Thanks for sharing! Greetings from Singapore!
I like to look at old ships & never considered looking at these..wow..
Wow, awesome video! I saw the outside and it could use a bit of work...
Glad they are finally taking care of her like she deserves!!
my first flight was in 1974 aboard panam 747.i was aww inspired of its size and room inside.
I liked this. :)
I worked at LAX couple years for FEDEX and John Travolta's hangar was close and had a couple planes can't remember the model but they were commercial size...met him once ,nice guy
He owns and fly's a Boeing 707. Very cool.
OwnsGermany so John Travolta is a real be American & buy American type,,,,,he never opted for airbus
He gave his 707 to Quantas, I suppose as it had become a huge weight financially. Then he got certified for B747.
Don´t know what Qantas can do with such plane...but it´s true they have that plane nowadays.
John Tavolta?? Who gives a shit. He takes a dump like the rest of us. The only difference is he probably pays someone to wipe his butt. People with tons of money are no different than anyone else.
0:41 Look at the three Delco Carousel IV Inertial platforms in the cockpit. The first aircraft with an Inertial Navigation System by the manufacturer. Really a revolucionary airplane!
Le 747 le meilleur appareil...
I LOVE IT.
I love Boeing 747
y en donde esta ese avion no
That nostalgia!
It was a very sad looking 747 outside, paintwork all shabby but HEY< They've made amends and the Greatest Pax A/c is like new again, there'll never be another aircraft with so much pizzaz as the 747. Very happy now that she's got a roof over her airframe. Well Done Boeing.
In a hangar, repainted and restored.
Is the amecrican 727being restord
I love fly this plane on simulator
How did you get in?? I looked and the 747 area was closed of and there was no jetway on it
anthony lambing metal stairs
i want this plane to fly again
siddhesh rane it wont work the engines are useless you need to get a new one
Unlikely that will ever happen.
did it always looked like that inside? or it had full rows of seating?
The interior have looked the same always.
Never had seatings,, made for flying tests only, never sold.
Were you not able to enter the cockpit
Imagine the last moments of JAL 123 in the cockpit, the pilots trying to save the plane in the mountains and the crash...
it was a 747SR100 series .. only 4 pax survived,, sad history. It was the result of a bad vessel riveting repair due to an overtiping take off.
BATH!!
Missing vortex fin on wing tips ?
No winglets on the 747-100
neither in 200´s & 300´s. they show in by 400´s
Why didn't they keep the interior?
Yes,why they didn't keep the interior?
I think that part of the plane had been dismantled for restoration because the upstairs lounge area now, is at its original location on the plane. I think that's right.
This plane was used as a test bed, it never saw commercial service and never had its interior fitted out
If you saw they were doing restoration, for all that were saying the outside was crappy looking.
Obviously you have never seen what a plane looks like then -___- they aren't perfect
"preserved"
I thought the clipper for PAN AM was the first
yea there you go...has the JT logo...is been like 15 years since I worked there
Nope City of Everett was the first and test flight version
flightmaster 10 this is the prototype 747 it isnt the same with other 747s the pan am one got destroyed in the tenerife accident
A380 rocks
It's sad that the outside is in so Bad condition
This is completely fucking disgusting! this 747 in this condition, and it is the Boeing museum that displays this?
Whole heartedly agree with you, This Aircraft should be in a Hangar to start with, although some effort has been put in of late, perhaps it's because the machine is no longer making mega bucks for the company?
The outside is bad the need to keep it up better
747 is so old school. Airbus A380 is better for the future.
Todays a/c have much of the basics taken from the 'old aircraft', I dare bet that Airbus will never sell as many Aircraft as Boeing. The 747 Jumbo was and still is a spectacular machine. I was saddened to see it in such a scruffy state but fortunately, time, and considerable dollars have been spent on this beutifu laircraft to be kept for posterity.
As an ex Airforce guy I still consider that aircraft have 'personalities' and deserve respect, they should never be exhibited as 'worn out' wrecks.
Джейсон Хичкок It was a failure economically, not technologically. But your shitty Tupolev was a different story.
What a disgrace to see this first great aircraft fall into such a terrible state of disrepair Boeing and the city of everite should be ashamed of themselves.
Cockpit sucks
It's sad that the outside is in so Bad condition