Video: One Piece At A Time... Man Builds 747?

 I was just 9 years old when I got my first tour of a Boeing 747, and it was a pretty big deal because the airplane hadn't been in service very long at all. My dad was flying co-pilot on DC-8's for United out of San Francisco when he decided we really needed to go over to Pan Am's side of the airport and see if they'd let a guy who flies for brand x (and his kid) walk thru the airplane. Wow, I can hardly describe what it was like, especially in the cockpit. In 1970, the 747 was just about as cool as an Apollo space capsule to me.

 By the time my dad retired from United in 1987 he had over 10,000 hours of flight time on the 747 alone. He flew it as copilot until he had enough senority to slide over to the big seat. He was a big kid when it came to flying machines, and that night we toured the Pan Am 747 at SFO ignited a fire in him for the 747 that burned for the rest of his life. 

 The guy in this video has taken his childhood experience with a Pan Am 747 to a pretty extreme conclusion, and I think it's off-the-scale cool. The video is actually a couple years old, but it's still awesome. If you only enjoy it half as much as I did, you're gonna be really happy : )

 Thanx to @adamcanfly for the video tip.

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