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Just recently been updated on Boeing discontinuing it’s Boeing 747-8I. Very sad to see such a majestic aircraft go! Luckily, Boeing still plan to keep the B747-8F in production, but plan to produce in smaller groups due to lack of customers buying/leasing 747’s Jasperiscrazy ( talk) 21:00, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
Has Boeing discontinued production of 747/8i? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.187.161.187 ( talk) 13:19, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
While the current picture is nice, I don't think it represents the airliner in an accurate manner as most 747-8s are freighters, two times more than the passenger variant. Here is a similar picture of an UPS 747-8F, its largest operator.-- Marc Lacoste ( talk) 22:11, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
I changed the fuel volume units from Liters to Cubic meters but it was reverted, stating restore unit conversion change; liters is more common than m^3, at least in the US. As the primary unit is already the USgal, I'm not sure we should follow the common US usage also for metric units. The cubic meter is the coherent SI derived unit for volume, and the Liter is only accepted for SI use. The common usage is to keep 3 significant figures, so the cubic meter is often preferred above 1000 L.-- Marc Lacoste ( talk) 06:32, 19 March 2020 (UTC) minor nitpicking anyway!
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This article should be merged with the main article and deleted. Main article here: /info/en/?search=Boeing_747 -- Alexey Topol ( talk) 11:09, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
I had updated the number produced, but someone came along and changed it back. I added a reference source, but also personally worked on every single one of these. Line # 1420 was the very first, # 1574 was the last... simple math gives you a quantity of 154 total -8 aircraft. Znathaniel ( talk) 20:24, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
Currently, the infobox says |number built = 155<!-- combined number -8Fs and -8Is have been completed/flown & delivered — per WP:AIR consensus. -->
, but if that is indeed the consensus, how should the Transaero/USAF VC-25Bs be counted? Were they ever completed to Transaero specifications? Apparently they were never delivered to Transaero, but were flown to storage. They are now being reconfigured to USAF specifications, in part by Boeing. Does this count as "delivered"?
TheFeds
00:40, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
Yes. Remember these are audited *financial* figures filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. I don’t know exactly how the accounting was done, but once the plane was no longer a work in progress, it needed to be delivered, even if it was to Boeing. So long answer short, the VC-25Bs are included. RickyCourtney ( talk) 03:36, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
Regarding my removal, and @ Marc Lacoste's reversion, of the image and caption in the Background section (reproduced here), I don't think it should be in this article. Neither of the illustrations are of a 747-8, yet the shape of the 747-500X concept could easily be mistaken for a depiction of the real 747-8I: readers have to interpret text to understand this distinction. (Something similar is in the 747 article, and it makes more sense there, if anywhere.) The provenance of the drawing is simply a user's own work (and they have received many inquiries about the sourcing of their images). The accuracy of the drawing is questionable: both versions are shown with engines that look like Trent 900s or GP7000s, which are reasonable suppositions for the 747-500X, but were never in service on the 747-400 (RB211, CF6 or PW4000). And it's a low-resolution JPEG file. Are there any strong reasons to keep it? TheFeds 08:50, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
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Just recently been updated on Boeing discontinuing it’s Boeing 747-8I. Very sad to see such a majestic aircraft go! Luckily, Boeing still plan to keep the B747-8F in production, but plan to produce in smaller groups due to lack of customers buying/leasing 747’s Jasperiscrazy ( talk) 21:00, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
Has Boeing discontinued production of 747/8i? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.187.161.187 ( talk) 13:19, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
While the current picture is nice, I don't think it represents the airliner in an accurate manner as most 747-8s are freighters, two times more than the passenger variant. Here is a similar picture of an UPS 747-8F, its largest operator.-- Marc Lacoste ( talk) 22:11, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
I changed the fuel volume units from Liters to Cubic meters but it was reverted, stating restore unit conversion change; liters is more common than m^3, at least in the US. As the primary unit is already the USgal, I'm not sure we should follow the common US usage also for metric units. The cubic meter is the coherent SI derived unit for volume, and the Liter is only accepted for SI use. The common usage is to keep 3 significant figures, so the cubic meter is often preferred above 1000 L.-- Marc Lacoste ( talk) 06:32, 19 March 2020 (UTC) minor nitpicking anyway!
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This article should be merged with the main article and deleted. Main article here: /info/en/?search=Boeing_747 -- Alexey Topol ( talk) 11:09, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
I had updated the number produced, but someone came along and changed it back. I added a reference source, but also personally worked on every single one of these. Line # 1420 was the very first, # 1574 was the last... simple math gives you a quantity of 154 total -8 aircraft. Znathaniel ( talk) 20:24, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
Currently, the infobox says |number built = 155<!-- combined number -8Fs and -8Is have been completed/flown & delivered — per WP:AIR consensus. -->
, but if that is indeed the consensus, how should the Transaero/USAF VC-25Bs be counted? Were they ever completed to Transaero specifications? Apparently they were never delivered to Transaero, but were flown to storage. They are now being reconfigured to USAF specifications, in part by Boeing. Does this count as "delivered"?
TheFeds
00:40, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
Yes. Remember these are audited *financial* figures filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. I don’t know exactly how the accounting was done, but once the plane was no longer a work in progress, it needed to be delivered, even if it was to Boeing. So long answer short, the VC-25Bs are included. RickyCourtney ( talk) 03:36, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
Regarding my removal, and @ Marc Lacoste's reversion, of the image and caption in the Background section (reproduced here), I don't think it should be in this article. Neither of the illustrations are of a 747-8, yet the shape of the 747-500X concept could easily be mistaken for a depiction of the real 747-8I: readers have to interpret text to understand this distinction. (Something similar is in the 747 article, and it makes more sense there, if anywhere.) The provenance of the drawing is simply a user's own work (and they have received many inquiries about the sourcing of their images). The accuracy of the drawing is questionable: both versions are shown with engines that look like Trent 900s or GP7000s, which are reasonable suppositions for the 747-500X, but were never in service on the 747-400 (RB211, CF6 or PW4000). And it's a low-resolution JPEG file. Are there any strong reasons to keep it? TheFeds 08:50, 18 February 2023 (UTC)