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Documentary: It was a gamble that nearly destroyed Boeing. In the 1960s, no aircraft could carry 400 passengers across an ocean nonstop. Pan Am's CEO walked into Boeing's headquarters and asked them to build one anyway. What followed was one of the most extraordinary bets in industrial history - a company staking its entire future on an aircraft that existed only as an idea.

This documentary traces the full story of the Boeing 747, from its origins in a failed military contract to the moment the last airframe rolled off the production line in 2022. Along the way, it reshaped how humans move across the planet. Cheaper tickets. New routes. Entire economies built on tourism that didn't exist before the Jumbo Jet made it possible.

In this video, we cover the engineering breakthroughs that made the 747 possible, the construction of the world's largest factory before the design was even finished, the brutal early years of engine failures and empty seats, and the family of variants that kept the aircraft relevant for over five decades. We explore how it outlasted every rival - the DC-10, the L-1011, the A340, and even the A380 - and how the freighter version quietly became the invisible backbone of global commerce, powering supply chains from iPhones to fresh flowers.

From Air Force One to Operation Solomon, from the upper deck lounge to the cargo nose door, this is the complete story of an aircraft that didn't just meet an impossible demand. It became the symbol of how we cross oceans.

1,574 built. Six billion passengers carried. One legacy that will never be repeated.

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