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The curtain falls, revealing Boeing's new 747-8 Intercontinental on Sunday during the unveiling ceremony for the new airplane at its plant in Everett, Washington state, in the United States. The airplane is the largest passenger plane built by Boeing. [Shanghai Daily] |
Boeing Co rolled out a new jumbo jet on Sunday, hoping to relive the glamour of the birth of the 747 over 40 years ago and use it to boost slow sales.
The 747-8 Intercontinental will seat 467 passengers, 51 more than the current version of the 747, and burn less fuel while offering passengers more comfort, the United States plane maker says.
"Of all the airplanes that we've built, there is one that is identified more closely with Boeing than any other, and that's the 747," said James Albaugh, head of Boeing's commercial airplane unit, introducing the plane to a crowd of almost 10,000 Boeing employees, their families and a select group of industry VIPs.
The event took place in the same hangar at Boeing's Everett plant outside Seattle where the first jumbo debuted in 1968.
![The curtain falls, revealing Boeing's new 747-8 Intercontinental on Sunday during the unveiling ceremony for the new airplane at its plant in Everett, Washington state, in the United States. The airplane is the largest passenger plane built by Boeing. [Shanghai Daily]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20110215/001fd04cea510ec455ef4c.jpg "The curtain falls, revealing Boeing's new 747-8 Intercontinental on Sunday during the unveiling ceremony for the new airplane at its plant in Everett, Washington state, in the United States. The airplane is the largest passenger plane built by Boeing. [Shanghai Daily]")