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Old 6th Oct 2014, 19:22
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Donkey497
 
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Now there is a good, practical and positive long term project for the Boeing apprentices to do.


Let's hope it is restored as the flying test bed, complete with all the original prospective client logos and not tarted up into a mock passenger configuration with a make believe paint job. There are plenty museums with run of the mill airliners you can see, but precious few showing the hard work, grind and the hidden practicalities of qualifying a new design as fit for commercial passenger service, especially one as revolutionary in its day as the 747.
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