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Inside Mighty Machines
2019
Published on, 3 months ago
Inside Mighty Machines
Jumbo Jet 1 Season 1 Episode
45 min
2019
6.7
The first Boeing 747 took to the sky in 1969 and changed the aviation industry forever. This iconic plane ushered in a new golden age of air travel, but now it's being grounded for good to make way for more modern, fuel-efficient aircraft. Host Chad Zdenek joins a dismantling team in Mississippi to help break down one of the retired planes and reveal the five engineering innovations that made this "Queen of the Skies" a record-breaker.
