FORTY years ago today, the world held its breath as the biggest and most luxurious passenger jet ever created took to the sky.A whopping 60m wingspan and a tail that stretched 20m skyward attracted huge crowds to Washington to watch the Boeing 747 ride into the record books.When the iconic plane took to the air for the first time on February 9, 1969, the jumbo jet was born and air travel changed forever.”When the 747 first arrived it was so huge. People were very excited about it,” said Captain Keith Marriott, secretary of the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA).
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