Why are jumbo jets called 747? What's the basis for naming aircraft models?(767, etc?)?

Not all jumbo jets are 747s. A 747 just happens to have been the first to be bestowed the moniker "Jumbo Jet" when it came out in 1969 because it wasn't just a jet, but the biggest jet to ever fly the skies.





Why does Boeing name their planes in "7s"?


The 7 series of numbers was designated for Boeing commercial aircraft. The 7_7 format came about as the marketing dept thought it sounded good. (Plus 7 is considered "lucky". A reason they put the number in so many model designators.)





"In the early days, says Boeing historian Mike Lombardi, the company numbered its products sequentially, starting with 1. Boeing kept this up until the 1950s, when it assigned a set of numbers to each of its product lines--600 for missiles, 700 for commercial jets, etc. Every significant initiative within a given series, even if it was just a sketch, got a number, which explains why Boeing's first commercial airliner, unveiled in 1954, was not the 700 but the 707. Then the marketers decided they liked the palindromic ring of "707" so much that every 700-series jet name would end with 7. "

Why are jumbo jets called 747? What's the basis for naming aircraft models?(767, etc?)?
747 is a model name of a jet aircraft built by Boeing. It's like Ford calling one of their cars a 500, or Dell calling one of their computers a Dimension E510. Boeing has decided to name their commercial aircraft models with numbers starting with 7. Other aircraft manufacturers also choose to use numbers in their aircraft names, like the Airbus 310, or the Cessna 172.





Each company chooses their own names or numbers as they see fit. There is no international organization or government agency assigning numbers for commercial aircraft.
Reply:It's whatever Boeing decides to call them.
Reply:The names of aircraft like 747 is decided by the company. The 747 is the second aircraft of its type the first was the 737. Then the 757 and 767 were designed but denied by boing. The third and last of its searies was the 777. But there are many jumbo jets. Like the c-110 herculees. C witch means Cargo and 110 is the model number. That is what it all means.