{"id":274884,"date":"2025-08-29T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-boeing-built-747-upper-deck\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:00:16","slug":"why-did-boeing-build-the-747-with-an-upper-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=274884","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Boeing Build The 747 With An Upper Deck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"59013\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 747<\/span><\/span> is perhaps one of the most iconic aircraft to ever grace the skies, up there with <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525590\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/concorde\/\"  >Concorde<\/a><\/span> and the mighty <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"70735\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Airbus A380<\/span><\/span>. The upper deck hump at the front of the aircraft is one of its most distinguishing features, and has led many to ask how the design came about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 747&#8217;s upper deck is one of the aircraft&#8217;s most distinguishing features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,8428,398,399,408,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-design","category-boeing","category-boeing-747","category-history","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274885,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274884\/revisions\/274885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}