From aviationweek.com: The era of the widebody airliner began at 11.34 a.m. on February 9, 1968, (sic) when the first 747, RA001, took off from Runway 16R at Snohomish County Paine Field in Washington. (Read the article here and note that the date is wrong in the original article. It should be 1969, 50 years ago today.)
A month later, the new plane was featured on the cover of the March 10, 1969 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology:
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