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Old 10-31-2022, 02:29 PM
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a cool picture
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The "City of Everett" which is the 1st 747 in 1968.
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Old 10-31-2022, 02:33 PM
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The last 747-400 rolling out.
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Old 10-31-2022, 03:31 PM
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Beauty plane, presence to spare. The fat pig 380 doesn't even compare esthetically.

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How The Boeing 747 Carried The Space Shuttle

https://simpleflying.com/how-the-boe...space-shuttle/

In 1985 with Space Shuttle Discovery aboard it made a stopover at Bergstrom Air Force Base located seven miles Southwest of Austin, Texas. On the approach to the field it went over my business at a low altitude. It was quite a sight !


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I was in a airplane a few thousand feet higher that the Space Shuttle "transfer aircraft" in Texas during a Trip to Southwest Research located near San Antonio Texas. Quite a experience for me.

They were heading back to the Cape after refueling.

The Boeing 747 aircraft was one of the best. Right up there with Howard Hughes Lockheed Constellation.
Different designs but some of the "Best of the Best" in Aviation knowledge.

Lockheed Constellation was a propeller-driven, four-engine airliner Designed by Howard Hughes and built by the Lockheed Corporation starting in 1943.

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...I think you can find a picture of the completed airplane in a search.


obviously shooped but the real McCoy nonetheless.

I had gate duty one sunny morning at NTC Orlando and noted the 747 carrier aircraft and Space Shuttle passing overhead on the way to the Cape.

Nice.

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Old 10-31-2022, 04:22 PM
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Here's a bizarre side story I experienced, in 1988 just before xmas I was watching a Hawaii Five O marathon on the local CBS affiliate. One of the episodes (filmed in the late 70's) that night had a scene filmed at a gate of the then brand-new Diamondhead concourse at HNL (Honolulu International Airport) and through the windows you see a 747 pull up to the gate, it was a Pan Am Clipper. Anyhow, the next morning I wake up to the news of the Lockerbie Disaster and had a strange DeJa'Vu feeling. Since I had taped the Hawaii Five O episodes on my VHS I went back and found the airport scene. Sure enough it was the same exact plane, the Maid of The Seas. What a creepy feeling to see it bringing tourist to sunny Hawaii, ignorant of its doomed future.

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I have personally worked on many series of the 747s from -100 to -400s, shuttle carriers. Excellently designed aircraft, they kept maintenance in mind while designing her. I will miss working on this old girl.

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Watch 74s arrive and depart the UPS WorldPort every day. I imagine the 74s will be in freight service for a few more decades.

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Old 11-03-2022, 11:15 PM
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a cool picture
She just flew over my house 5 minutes ago heading to Seattle.

Nothing on Flightaware so it is military and definitely a 4 burner.

Weird anti-collision lights...

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Middlish 1970's, my company was buying a LOT of lighting products from Spain. The Valencia area in particular. So when the Spanish Govt ran a huge lighting show in Valencia, they paid for a trip and accomodation for me to visit.

They paid for a Melbourne to Valencia via Rome trip and return. Being that no Spanish airline flew to Australia, the route was via Alitalia on a 747. Economy class. Now in those days, the airlines country hoped all the way, and one stop was Bombay (India).

Plane rolls to a stop, usual intercom announcements in Italian etc and a little in English but basically, no-one is allowed off the aircraft. That's OK, it's only a short stop. I'm in the middle seats quite close to the galley area.

The doors open and departing passengers start to exit. There was no air-bridge so they rolled up sets of stairs and they had to walk across the tarmac to the main building.

At the same time, a food service vehicle on a big scissor lift rolls up on the opposite side to service the galley. Obviously the food truck guy opens the door from outside and there was one holy huge explosive sound and the escape shoot slide came out with a lot of force, enough to push the truck back and off to a side. I think the guy was injured but I never did find that out for sure.

LOTS of pandemonium for a while then every one had to get off the aircraft. We were walked to a very bare room with plastic seats to sit on. You could tell this was going to be LONG LONG wait. No A/C, it was night time, humid and very stuffy. Not good.

Now on board, I was fortunate to have been sitting fairly close to a young mother with a baby. She was flying to Italy to see her family I think. She was feeding this baby naturally using her most attractive containers, not that I saw anything. I helped her off the aircraft and into the holding room. With the conditions prevailing, the baby soon was becoming distressed, and so was the mother.

So I went to an official, told him my "wife" and baby needed to go back on the aircraft so she could feed the child etc. To my surprise, they allowed me and the mother and child to return to the aircraft. I promptly stretched out across 4 seats and she moved to a discreet position. I slept there for nearly 5 hours. Eventually, I woke up, other passengers were boarding again, very disgruntled and tired.

Surprise surprise, in place of the Alitalia door, it had been replaced with one from (I presume), an Air India aircraft. It certainly had a non matching trim on the door anyway.

So that was nearly 50 years ago, I bet that sort of thing would NEVER happen in today's age.

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Old 12-07-2022, 01:59 AM
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There she is...


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I was at work and couldn't make it out there. Safety issues in my shop. There will be a big event on the final roll out and departure.

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Another shot, courtesy of Boeing:



747's don't do small... this one makes nice wallpaper.

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drone footage of her going to the test ramp:

https://twitter.com/BoeingAirplanes/...81299434512384

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