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Old Feb 12, 2019 | 10:47 pm
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Originally Posted by YVR Cockroach
And we shouldn't forget that the 747 was initially designed as a freighter. ... (hence the hump handy for loading overlength items through the nose).
more accurately, for having the entire length of the main deck available for nose-loading payload
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