Boeing 747-400: The Mega-Top (Osprey Civil Aircraft) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book by Robbie Shaw is a general history of the Boeing 747-400 current through 1999. The text is generally accurate, but is not especially detailed. Instead Shaw focuses on selecting beautiful color images of the 747-400 from around the world, with Asia being especially well represented.
The book will be appreciated by airliner fans, and especially fans of aviation photography. One notable and peculiar shortcoming is that there are no flight deck photographs anywhere in the book, though Shaw does pay modest attention to the flight deck upgrades in the text. Given that the two-man flight deck was the single most involved and distinguishing upgrade from the 747 classics, that seems a strange oversight. Despite this drawback, I gave the book four stars for photographic coverage of the Queen of the Boeing fleet.

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The 747-400 has been the only variant of Boeing's world famous 'Jumbo Jet' in production since 1990. Originally announced as a successor to the veteran Series -200 and -300 in May 1985, the re-engineered 747 had garnered 100+ deposits from world airlines by the time the prototype was rolled out on 26 January 1988.