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Jumbo

Jumbo

The Making of the Boeing 747

by Chris Gall
Hardback
Age range: 5 to null Publication Date: 06/09/2020

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For the 50th anniversary of the Boeing 747's first commercial flight, a picture book about the development of the iconic passenger plane and how it changed the history of air travel.

In 1968, the biggest passenger jet the world had ever seen premiered in Everett, Washington. The giant plane was called the Boeing 747, but reporters named it "the Jumbo jet."

There was only one problem. It couldn't fly. Yet.

Jumbo details the story of the world's first wide body passenger jet, which could hold more people than any other plane at the time and played a pivotal role in allowing middle class families to afford overseas travel. Author and illustrator Chris Gall, himself a licensed pilot, shows how an innovative design, hard work by countless people, and ground-breaking engineering put the Jumbo jet in the air.

On January 22, 1970, the Boeing 747 made it's first transatlantic flight, taking passengers from New York to Paris in seven hours.

ISBN:
9781250155801
9781250155801
Category:
Educational: Technology
Age range:
5 to null
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
06-09-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Roaring Brook Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
261.37x312.17x12.7mm
Weight:
0.61kg
Chris Gall

Chris Gall is the award-winning author and illustrator of Dog Vs. Cat, Awesome Dawson, Revenge of the Dinotrux, Substitute Creacher, and Dinotrux, a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book.

He is also the illustrator of America the Beautiful, another Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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