How's the 747F upper deck configuration?
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From: McKinney, TX
CargoMatatu is wrong. there are only 4 seats on the aft upper deck of Atlas Air -400F's. There are 2 bunks as well. We are limited on ALL freighters to 8 persons on board because thaere are only 8 eacape reels.
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Hee hee,
This is fun, what is standard?
I've flown 75+ different 747 airframes as freighters, and really, no two are the same.
Best visually were the old PanAm birds with the Juan Trippe artwork on the back wall.
Worst were the converted U-boats.
Best over all were the -400s built for the job.
And even line number 3, still flying at Evergreen, was a joy to fly. Didn't matter that it had done the hard landing test flight series.
This is fun, what is standard?
I've flown 75+ different 747 airframes as freighters, and really, no two are the same.
Best visually were the old PanAm birds with the Juan Trippe artwork on the back wall.
Worst were the converted U-boats.
Best over all were the -400s built for the job.
And even line number 3, still flying at Evergreen, was a joy to fly. Didn't matter that it had done the hard landing test flight series.
None but a blockhead
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From: London, UK
And talking of Trippe and the 747...
"By pure chance, it was Trippe himself who gave the jumbo its signature bulge. In a rare lapse of vision, Trippe thought the 747 would be superseded by a big supersonic jet, as cheap to run as a subsonic jet. Some hope.
He therefore decreed that on the 747, pilots should sit above the flight deck so the nose could be opened up and take cargo. The 747's ultimate fate, he thought, would be as a flying Mack truck. Boeing showed him a wooden mock-up of the 747's flight deck, in the hump above the nose. He foraged around and came upon the space behind the flight deck, the rest of the hump. "What is this for?" he asked. "A crew rest area," said a Boeing engineer. "Rest area?" barked Trippe. "This is going to be reserved for passengers." "
http://www.time.com/time/time100/bui...le/trippe.html
(check the byline- though it probably wasn't really)
R
"By pure chance, it was Trippe himself who gave the jumbo its signature bulge. In a rare lapse of vision, Trippe thought the 747 would be superseded by a big supersonic jet, as cheap to run as a subsonic jet. Some hope.
He therefore decreed that on the 747, pilots should sit above the flight deck so the nose could be opened up and take cargo. The 747's ultimate fate, he thought, would be as a flying Mack truck. Boeing showed him a wooden mock-up of the 747's flight deck, in the hump above the nose. He foraged around and came upon the space behind the flight deck, the rest of the hump. "What is this for?" he asked. "A crew rest area," said a Boeing engineer. "Rest area?" barked Trippe. "This is going to be reserved for passengers." "
http://www.time.com/time/time100/bui...le/trippe.html
(check the byline- though it probably wasn't really)
R
