Originally Posted by
Fris B. Fairing
or were they saluting the aeroplane and its passengers?
I remember seeing it only rarely... as a gesture by staff on the Ramp - for example, when the last Air NZ DC-8 pushed back from MEL and started to taxi, the QF Ramp and Engineering staff lined up on the equipment line and saluted... my guess is they were saluting an old aluminium friend and not the crew.