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Gibbon1 on May 17, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Boeing 747s are back in demand as workhorses of gl...

> I was surprised to hear only ~1500 were ever built

Compare with the never gets any respect 737, at over 10,000 units built.

notahacker on May 17, 2018 [–]

I'm not convinced there's anyone within the aviation industry that doesn't respect the 737. (Which was of course designed for a much more common use case anyway)

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