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Peanut-butter-and-jelly gets reconfigured by Marcel Vigneron in Marcel's Quantum Kitchen. (Evans Vestal Ward/Syfy)

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EVERETT, Washington — The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental is huge. It is the largest passenger plane the company has ever built, but that doesn't give a sense of its awe-inspiring size.

The 747-8 Intercontinentals took to the air for the first time Sunday. Anytime something that big makes its maiden flight, it draws a crowd. Reporters from around the world gathered at Paine Field near Seattle. As the jumbo jet taxied by, its wings — with a span of 224 feet, 7 inches — just cleared the crowd. That's how big this airplane is.

Boeing chief 747 pilot Mark Feuerstein and co-pilot Paul Stemer kept...