BOEING 747 JUMBO JET FLIGHT TESTING & ROLLOUT PROMOTIONAL FILM “ THE OUTER LIMIT“ XD49704

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This color short film produced by The Boeing Company documents the extensive tests performed on the 747 jet airliner prototypes before its rollout to the general public in 1969. The sun rises over a Boeing 747 jet airliner in silhouette. Title card: “Flight testing the Boeing 747” (0:10). Boeing engineers in white outfits work on manufacturing and testing aircraft parts (0:32). A 747 takes off and soars overhead, retracting landing gear (0:53). Wheels of the plane while taxiing in montage (1:00). Boeing engineering crew members converse outdoors (1:06). Bold stencil text: “Experiment” intercut with #3 cartoon flying elephant insignias on Boeing crew hats, initials “.” (1:09). A Pan Am airliner fitted with a large, conical, white nose boom. It is towed on a tarmac. (1:12). Numeric designs #’s 1-5 (1:20). A mechanical plotter machine drafts an aircraft design (1