747 Protoype (N7470)

© 1997 Geoff Sobering, Non-commercial Use Allowed with Attribution, All Other Rights Reserved


These photographs are of the Boeing 747 protoype, N7470, the "City of Everett". It is now owned by the Museum of Flight. Recently it was used to flight test the Pratt and Whitney PW8084 and Rolls Royce Trent-890 engines for the 777.
One interesting item to note is the word "Experimental" next to the main door. This indicates that the plane is not certified under the 747 type-certificate.

As is noted on the side of aircraft, just below the flight deck, the first flight was February 9, 1969 by Jack Waddell, Brien Wygle, and Jesse Wallick.

These photographs were taken on April 13, 1997 on the tarmac just to the south of the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.

A note about the photographs: clicking on the thumbnail picture will load an image approximately 500x300 pixels large (~60Kb). Under each thumbnail is the word "huge". Clicking there will load the original scanned image of about 1000x600 pixels at JPEG 75% quality (~400-500Kb).

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