PICS: the 1,500th ever Boeing 747 on delivery...

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Joe Sutter at the ceremony. The 747 is the first widebody to reach 1500 deliveries

Joe Sutter, acclaimed as the father of the 747, was the manager of its design team in what were exciting times in civil aviation for very good reasons, but topped by the advent of this breakthrough ‘jumbo’ jet which proved even more illustrious in service than the great Boeing 707 family that led the transformation of air services from the late 1950s.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/fl ... /11397925/

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking ... mber-1500/

http://www.upinthesky.nl/2014/06/1500e- ... fgeleverd/

http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/boeing-d ... 1597522381

Boeing delivered its 1,500th 747 to Germany's Lufthansa Airlines today at Paine Field in Everett, Washington.
No other widebody aircraft has reached this milestone.
It's a 747-8i model, the longest passenger jet in the world.
This aircraft, registered D-ABYP is the 14th 747-8i for Lufthansa's fleet.

http://airchive.com/blog/2014/06/26/boe ... uncertain/

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.s ... entry=true

http://dcnewsroom.blogspot.nl/2014/06/l ... g-747.html