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Around the top of the roof
of the London stadium, the
lighting towers reach 197 ft
(60 m) above the sports area.

You could
fit 3 London
Olympic
stadiums inside
the factory
walls.
The Boeing 747 is 64 ft
(19 m) high and was the biggest
aircraft in the world when the
factory was built in the 1960s.
How big

is the biggest

building? A huge mural on the side of the
building covers six doors, each
of which is 82 ft (25 m) high
and the length of a National
Football League (NFL) field.
Used for putting airplanes together, Boeing’s
Everett Factory in Seattle has a volume of

472 million cu ft (13.4 million cu m).

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