Boeing set new manufacturing standards in 1969, when the aircraft manufacturer built the Boeing 747 airliner in less than 16 months.
At any given time of day, there are 100,000 people in the air in a Boeing 747 passenger carrying aircraft.
Every year, the Boeing airlines manufacturing company trains more or less 30,000 pilots, mechanics, and other airline employees from 83 countries.
Boeing Employees Community Fund is the largest employee charitable fund in the world that is owned and managed by the employees themselves.
In 1984 there was one American airlines company offering one flight per day from Chicago to the United Kingdom in a TWA Boeing airliner.
A Boeing aeroplane with 70% of the seats filled is by far, more fuel efficient than a new automobile with two people inside.
The Boeing 747 jet airliner came into existence is due to the result of a letter from Pan Am
airlines boss to Boeing in 1965.
The first Boeing 747 airplane was manufactured and completed on 30th September 1968 was the Boeing 747-100.
The Boeing 747 airplane is kit out with around six million parts, over 217.25 km of wiring (135 miles). More than a ton of air when aircraft pressurised.
The work force team that built the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet was nicknamed the "Incredibles"
The Boeing 747-100 maiden flight was on 9th February in 1969.
The first Boeing 747 commercial flight was with Pan Am between New York and London on the 22nd January 1970.
