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Would highly recommend this book by Joe Sutter the engineering leader for the 747 program: http://www.amazon.com/747-Creating-Worlds-Adventures-Aviation/dp/0060

• dekhn 11y ago
  Great book! I learned a lot from that (already was a huge 747 fan). In particular, compare the Boeing SST project at the time to the 747. It's obvious in hindsight why an efficient high capacity plane beat an inefficient low capacity plane- people want cheap tickets more than they want to get the destination in the least amount of time (hell, you can spend as much time in car traffic at the destination as you did in the air!).