The 747-400, the most common passenger version in service, has a high-subsonic cruise speed of Mach 0.85â0.855 (up to 570 mph or 920 km/h) with an intercontinental range of 7,260 nautical miles (8,350 mi or 13,450 km).t is available in passenger, freighter and other versions. Boeing designed the 747's hump-like upper deck to serve as a first class lounge or extra seating, and to allow the aircraft to be easily converted to a cargo carrier by removing seats and installing a front cargo door.
The Royal Household is expected to make further announcements later this year about other events marking the Queen's 90th birthday on April 21 2016. On September 9 this year, she will become BritainÂ¹s longest reigning monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria, who reigned for 63 years and 216 days.HE Queen is to celebrate her 90th birthday next year with 7,000 people at a spectacular equestrian-themed party in Windsor Castle's Home Park. By Richard Palmer.
The Queen is 80 on April 21, and in the run-up to her birthday, TIME has been exploring how the institution of the British Crown retains meaning by watching the Queen at work. At her direction, the palace also granted unusual and exclusive access to her senior aides and her son Andrew.he Queen is acutely aware that the continued success of the monarchy depends on the careful nurturing of popular consent  and that a peculiar danger of being the best-known woman in the world for over half a century is becoming background noise, ubiquitous but forgotten.