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Joe Sutter, Boeing engineer who led project to build the first jumbo jet, dies at 95 - The Washington Post
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Aviation enthusiasts 'remember achievements and mourn the loss' of Joe Sutter, the Father of the 747 - Puget Sound Business Journal
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