In 1965, Boeing Co. turned to Joe Sutter to change the shape of flying. Over the next four years, the blunt-talking engineer led a team that designed the 747, a 231-foot 10-inch-long hump-backed ...
Picture this: Paris, late 1960s. The Cold War is anything but cold, and the air is thick with smoke from a cool, weird Citroën DS and Chanel No. 5. Joe Sutter, chief engineer of the now nearly ...