SEATTLE – Boeing Co. engineers love to marvel over the elegant lines of their flying machines. But everybody agrees the company’s newest creation is one ugly duckling.
The plane is officially called the Large Cargo Freighter. The craft is a standard 747 that received an extreme makeover in Taipei, Taiwan, last summer – a process that involved removing the jet’s passenger cabin and signature hump, then replacing them with a cavernous cargo hold. The tail section now swings open on giant hinges that protrude from one side of the fuselage, like elbows.
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