View Full Version : 747 400f 15 years of service
acmi48
19th Nov 2008, 13:38
cargolux first b747 400f lxfcv entered service 15 years ago today- apparently to date has logged 79000 hours and some 13000 plus cycles
not many 200f have achieved that in their life times
and the aircraft will soon be sold on...
-200F, B-HVY retired in April after 26years had 114,000hrs not sure on the cycles.
18-Wheeler
20th Nov 2008, 02:08
Flown a few 200F's with in excess of 80,000 hrs.
But good on the 400F, they'll be around a very long time to come, there's no competition.
16down2togo
20th Nov 2008, 20:52
Good old Fox,
still adore her and her sisters over the newer ones with the wrong engines although she turned into a noisy bitch over the years.
Sold to UPS I guess she has a lot of years to come on her frame and deserves it.
Good luck to you old girl, hope to have a cpouple of hot and high take offs on you before you finallly leave.
I remember the day it touched down... Also remember loading one of its first (if not the first) flights LUX-Hawaii (Not HNL) with the two yachts for that Waterworld film. November -10c early in the morning. That aircraft was full, not an inch of space left; 14T was the payload. One yacht was blown up in the movie, the other sold...
Also remember GCV, think it was Dec same year, MTOW LUX-HKG, reject at V1 due all tv screens went dead. 16 flat tyres (tires :} ) Aircraft had been loaded while snowing, snow not removed from pallets. Boeing had not sealed the floor, so when it melted the water poured into lower 41. I had just gotten to work that day and had to figure out how to offload it without tipping it....