I toured the Boeing 747 Experience at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta. The jet was the first Boeing 747-400 produced and ...

so Boeing put the flight deck of the 747 above the passenger cabin to give the aircraft a hinged nose for a front-loading cargo door. The first design for the cockpit enclosure was a hemispherical ...

Other adaptations include the YAL-1 Airborne Laser, the 747 Combi (a hybrid passenger and cargo aircraft), the 747 ...