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SEP 30, 1968 Happy Birthday Queen!
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I have always loved the bird, always felt rather treasured to be on the top deck.
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I flew the Classic just over 3.000 hours. Love at first sight and I still miss her.
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Absolutely, unquestionably, the most significant and successful civil jetliner in human history. Bar none! She’s a beaut. |
I flew the Queen for 4000+hours as F/O and after flying B777 as Captain again fly the queen Classic for last 4 year and enjoying it even more |
"gain fly the queen Classic for last 4 year and enjoying it even more"
May I ask who you fly for? Did not know any classics were still flying commercially. |
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Originally Posted by Tandemrotor
(Post 10262620)
Absolutely, unquestionably, the most significant and successful civil jetliner in human history. Bar none! She’s a beaut. But she was and remains a beaut, that's for sure. |
According to the Boeing production list on Plane Spotters Net some 747- 200 are still active.
USAF Iran Air Force Air Georgia 4L-GNK Caspian Air Fly Pro Fars Air Qeshim Plus others listed as active. J |
I guarantee we won't be celebrating 50 years continuous production of the 747s rival, the A380!!
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Hi Rufus i wrote that the 747 was the world’s most significant jetliner, since it is said it has carried 3.5 billion passengers. Equal to more than half the world’s population. I’m not aware of any other aircraft that comes close to that. Being in production for 50 years, also means it has been with us for almost half the period since the Wright brothers first took flight at Kittyhawk. It will continue for many years yet. So to me, the claim looks pretty straightforward to support. |
Originally Posted by Max Angle
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Wonderful aeroplane - can't be many other types that have been continuously in production in more or less the same form for 50 years or more. |
50 Years continuous production
Originally Posted by treadigraph
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Good old Guardian - captioning the BOAC 747 as "taking off from Heathrow". They've certainly levelled the landscape considerably and removed a lot of trees since then... :p My guess would be King County/Boeing Field.
Wonderful aeroplane - can't be many other types that have been continuously in production in more or less the same form for 50 years or more. |
Originally Posted by Tandemrotor
(Post 10263642)
Hi Rufus i wrote that the 747 was the world’s most significant jetliner, since it is said it has carried 3.5 billion passengers. Equal to more than half the world’s population. I’m not aware of any other aircraft that comes close to that. Being in production for 50 years, also means it has been with us for almost half the period since the Wright brothers first took flight at Kittyhawk. It will continue for many years yet. So to me, the claim looks pretty straightforward to support. |
Originally Posted by Old Fella
(Post 10263805)
Not many in civil service I know, but the Lockheed C130 Hercules has been in continuous production for 62 years and still going. It is without doubt the greatest airlifter ever built, bar none.
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I like the throttle stagger in the flight deck photo. (That's the engineer in me!)
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Originally Posted by RufusXS
(Post 10264129)
So the 737 has carried 16.8 billion passengers as of 2014, was debuted before the 747, and has been produced in vastly greater quantity. So by your standards it would blow away the 747, no?
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
(Post 10264867)
It depends entirely on what measure you choose. A B744, for example, typically generates around 5 times as many RPKs per day than a B738, but the latter will carry nearly 3 times as many passengers daily.
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Brilliant Guardian photo of the Queen carrying the shuttle over New York.... and also over Concorde and blackbird and others on the aircraft carrier museum below... all-in-one photo.
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My dad flew on the inaugural Pan Am flight from NY to London. When I was clearing out the house following his demise I found the souvenir pack he was given on boarding. |
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