At the Evergreen Wings & Waves Waterpark in Oregon, you can ride a waterslide out of a 747 that sits on top of a building.Also on display outside the museum are a DC-9 and a Boeing 757. The 747 is one of three planes parked outside the Delta museum, but the only one that serves as such an exhibit.As a result, the 747's iconic hump was designed to allow it to be easily converted into a cargo jet that could be loaded through the nose." To enable that, the cockpit was raised - creating the hump, with the upper deck and more passenger seats. Passengers would be on supersonic jets," Frilingos said. When the 747 was designed in the 1960s, "the idea was in 10 years, 15 years, nobody would be flying these kind of jets anymore. It didn't test well in wind tunnels, and also it was really felt impossible that it could be safely evacuated" within FAA time limits, Frilingos said. Boeing engineer Joe Sutter, known as the 'Father of the 747,' "knew the double-decker wasn't going to work. He wanted a plane that looked like an ocean liner when you saw it from the side," said Timothy Frilingos, manager of exhibits at the Delta Flight Museum. He also had this really strong vision that he wanted a double-decker plane. " Juan Trippe envisioned the plane that could fly 500 people from continent to continent.
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