Boeing 747 / Federal Express World War II the first aircraft in the

the first aircraft in the super mid-size class

The Ju 52 was obsolete as a bomber by 1939

its official tally of victims was universally accepted as 1

a USAAF A-29 became the first USAAF aircraft to destroy an enemy submarine

000 Japanese aircraft - 4

Boeing 747 / Federal Express World War II the first aircraft in theBoeing 747 Federal Express airplane model. The hugely significant 747 revolutionized airline transport. Far bigger than anything before it, the 747 slashed operating costs per seat and thus cut the cost of long haul international airline travel. Boeing conceived the 747 in the mid 1960s following its failure to secure a US Air Force contract for an ultra large strategic transport (which resulted in the Lockheed C 5 Galaxy), when it identified a market