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The 707 model was replaced with the current 747 jumbo jet frame in 1990 during the George H. W. Bush administration.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2025
So, with spring training beginning next month, Arenado is like a jumbo jet hovering over a city, waiting to land.
—Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Taking Rodri out of that team could have been like removing the door from a jumbo jet.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
The stainless-steel Super Heavy booster is larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2024
The Super Heavy booster, as long as and wider than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, will descend vertically on the power of its Raptor engines and slow to a near-hover, allowing two mechanical catch arms to close and capture the stainless steel booster over the launch mount.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024
The narrow-body plane was soon dwarfed by Boeing’s groundbreaking and more glamorous jumbo jet, the 747, which could fit more than 500 people, and in some configurations, a piano bar.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 18 July 2024
Boeing then introduced Americans to the jet age, launching four new successful airplanes in just over a decade – the 707, 727, 737 and 747, the world's first jumbo jet – all while building the rockets that helped put a man on the moon.
—Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 7 July 2024
This is important to lay the groundwork for future flights, when SpaceX wants to bring the Super Heavy booster—the size of the fuselage of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet—to a landing back at its launch pad.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2025
So, with spring training beginning next month, Arenado is like a jumbo jet hovering over a city, waiting to land.
—Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Taking Rodri out of that team could have been like removing the door from a jumbo jet.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
The stainless-steel Super Heavy booster is larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2024
The Super Heavy booster, as long as and wider than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, will descend vertically on the power of its Raptor engines and slow to a near-hover, allowing two mechanical catch arms to close and capture the stainless steel booster over the launch mount.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024
The narrow-body plane was soon dwarfed by Boeing’s groundbreaking and more glamorous jumbo jet, the 747, which could fit more than 500 people, and in some configurations, a piano bar.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 18 July 2024
Boeing then introduced Americans to the jet age, launching four new successful airplanes in just over a decade – the 707, 727, 737 and 747, the world's first jumbo jet – all while building the rockets that helped put a man on the moon.
—Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 7 July 2024
This is important to lay the groundwork for future flights, when SpaceX wants to bring the Super Heavy booster—the size of the fuselage of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet—to a landing back at its launch pad.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
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“Jumbo jet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jumbo%20jet. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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