{"id":323832,"date":"2025-11-27T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-747-8-held-up-launch-20-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:00:14","slug":"how-the-boeing-747-8-has-held-up-since-its-launch-20-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=323832","title":{"rendered":"How The Boeing 747-8 Has Held Up Since Its Launch 20 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525559\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 747<\/span><\/span> is iconic not only within the aviation world, but is recognizable even by the general public, with the aircraft also known as the &#8216;Queen Of The Skies.&#8217; The very first aircraft rolled out of the factory in 1968 and entered commercial service in 1970, with<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"278802\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/pan-am\/\"  >Pan Am<\/a><\/span> as the type&#8217;s launch customer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The freighter variant of the 747-8 got over three times as many orders as the passenger version.<\/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":[396,398,876,1441,8194,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-747-8","category-boeing-747-8f","category-boeing-747-8i","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323832","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=323832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323833,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323832\/revisions\/323833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}