imagine Boeing took a 747 SP and completely overhauled the Aircraft Interior with a glass cockpit new seats and everything could they then take the old and inefficient four engines and replace them with the new ge9x or the Revolutionary Rolls Royce ultrafan in short could Boeing revive the 747 by going from a quad jet to a twin jet if Boeing wanted to save the 747 and bring it back to production then they would need to make it competitive in today's market quad jet engines are no longer fuel efficient twin engine jets are taking over and if
Boeing wants to keep the 747 they will need to completely redesign the aircraft first off they will need to lift the wings and reinforce them so the plane can support the weight of the twin engine configuration the tail would also need a complete redesign because of the new twin engine configuration as aircraft engine technology advanced twin engine configurations became safer and more reliable than quad engine ones this resulted in Boeing taking the 747 out of production because four engines became simply redundant before we talk a little more about the popularity decline of the 747 don't
forget to smash the like button if you enjoyed the video so far after 55 years of production the 747 was finally discontinued in 2023 due to the low number of orders the decision marked the end of an era after all the plane was first rolled out in 1968 and took its first flight on February 9th 1969 at the time Boeing was Untouchable taking almost all wide body orders in the industry neither the locki TriStar nor the McDonald Douglas dc10 could even come close to this jumbo jet for comparison's sake Douglas stopped producing the dc10 in
1989 while Lockheed discontinued the TriStar 5 years earlier in 1984 from the 174 aircraft produced in 55 years there are around 50 aircraft that are still in service with Airlines like luans Korean Air Saudia Air China Asana Airlines and UPS Airlines French aircraft manufacturer Airbus became somewhat of a competitor to Boeing in 1974 when they introduced the a300 unfortunately many airlines didn't go for it because it's shorter range could carry fewer passengers and used only two engines you might think that this was revolutionary at the time but this is the 70s we're talking about twin
engine aircraft weren't nearly as popular as they are today so Boeing still dominated the industry with the 747 fortunately they were smart enough to see the twin jets would become the future of Aviation and they introduced the trip 7 in 1993 currently it's the most built wide body jet with 1,735 units produced so far it also takes the cake for the world's largest twin jet after considerable Innovation Boeing finally introduced the 787 which is a combination of a widebody and a narrow body aircraft it's suitable for Long Haul travel but it's much smaller than a
widebody aircraft the popularity of the 747 was slowly declining that's until talks about a possible twinjet 747 appeared online so is this even possible apparently if Boeing can find an engine that could provide enough thrust in a dual engine configuration then this might just work currently the largest Boeing 747 model the 7 478 uses four Gen X 2 b67 engines Each of which produce 66,500 lb of thrust for a total of 266,000 lb of thrust and this is a big problem there's no doubt in our mind that big Airlines like Emirates could operate a twin
jet 747 with a massive capacity of 467 passengers in a three-class configuration but finding an engine to power this massive Beast of an airplane is the problem some have pointed out that the ge9x that's going to be used on the triple 7x could be a good substitute the problem is the engine is too big to fit under the wings it has a diameter of 174 in or 440 CM but can produce up to 110,000 lb of thrust but what if Boeing goes with rolls-royce's new ultrafan engine now you might say but wait isn't the ultrafan
6 in wider than the g9x of course the Rolls-Royce ultrafan has a 100 40 in diameter which is wider than the fuse Lodge of the 737 but there's something a lot of people don't know the beauty of the ultra fan when produced won't be the 140 diameter fan the 15 to1 bypass Ratio or the 110,000 lbs of thrust no the beauty of this engine will be its modality you see even though Boeing might need to redesign the wings on the 747 the ultra fan can be shrunk down to fit any aircraft with only minor decreases
in thrust this way the 747 twinjet might finally become what what 747 Tre jet never was speaking of which what if we told you that the most popular quad engine aircraft almost became a triet if Boeing decides to modify the tail wing and landing gear of the 747 it won't be the first time wanting to rival McDonald Douglas's md11 and locked Martin's l1011 Boeing decided to build a trijet aircraft unlike today back then Boeing already had a tri jet in production the 727 however the 727 was a narrow body aircraft not suitable for Long Haul
flights but the 747 triet was about to change that it was going to carry more passengers and have greater payload than its competitors however what was supposed to be a dream airliner turned into an engineering nightmare for three main problems first just like with the ultrafan and the ge9x examples Boeing needed to completely redesign the wings to offer structural stability the wings weren't strong enough to support a single heavy engine under each Wing they were designed to distribute the weight of the engines across the entire Wing as a result the second problem became apparent the
engineering team would need to significantly shorten the aircraft and third and arguably the biggest problem Boeing risked never getting orders for the 747 trijet as you may know trajet wide body aircraft are rare this means Airlines would avoid placing orders for the new aircraft because they would then have to retrain all their pilots it would be cheaper and easier to Simply switch to a competitor's quad jet widebody aircraft so the triet never entered production but they did come up with the 747 SP or special performance in 1976 instead of a triet the 747 SP kept
its four engines the only difference being it was shorter than the original 747 the model became popular with some Airlines and four aircraft are in service today one of those four is Sophia which has a gigantic door in the back that opens to reveal a flying telescope in midair now you might be wondering why would a twin jet succeed where a trijet failed and to tell you the truth we don't know the company has so many orders for their new aircraft that it would be much wiser to spend time getting production back to schedule instead
of redesigning an old aircraft so that is why we ask why should Boeing even bother with a 747 twinjet if Boeing allocates funds and engineering hours to build a 747 twin jet it will be a dumb idea we get it the 747 is an iconic plane with its wide body and partial double deck design it's been in service for 55 years and over its lifetime Boeing has developed it into the dreamlifter a shuttle carrier aircraft a super tanker and a version of it is currently being used to transport the president of the United States as
Air Force One of course fans would want Boeing to still produce the 747 simply put it's a legendary aircraft that's still in service but if you look at this from a financial perspective then things don't really add up even if we assume that the modality of the ultra fan will allow Boeing to find an engine small enough and powerful enough to power the 747 in a dual engine configuration why would they redeveloping the wings the tail and the landing gear takes a lot of time and money and Boeing currently has neither it would be a
lot smarter for the company if they focused on developing the triple X their current $442 million twin jet wide body aircraft for which they already have 450 orders since they first announced the aircraft in 2013 it's new it's fuel efficient it's a twinjet it has reduced CO2 emissions and on top of all that it's a long haul aircraft that can carry 426 passengers in a two-class configuration to a destination 8,400 Mi away so if you were Boe would you be investing in a new aircraft for which you have almost 200 billion in orders or would
you be spending valuable resources and time on a new aircraft that is on track to replace the actual plane you're trying to revamp don't forget to like And subscribe see you in the next one
