This week the end of Boeing 747 deliveries was celebrated in a very special way…
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Ben, do you know who was in the cockpit for the flight? I wonder if there were any figureheads.
Glad I’ve been able to sit in the nose and upper deck of this plane before they’re all gone!
It might be lol. That will make getting on the last flight way easier for those of us who can get into Iran! I actually hope it takes place there, since that eliminates a lot of my competition to be on the last flight 🙂
Will be taking my first ever flight on a 747-8 this April. Was excited about the prospect when I noticed that plane was slated for our flight. My wife is way more of an airplane nerd than me and was super-stoked about it when I told her. We will be upstairs in business, so short of being in the nose in 1st, this is supposed to be as good as it gets on a 747 from what I hear. Not sure if it will ever happen again but I can at least say I did it once in my life. Hopefully I'm not jinxing us and nothing happens to change our plane.
I'm with you! Just love flying the beautiful Boeing 747-8, especially in first out of MEX-FRA. There's just nothing like it in this part of the world.
One of my earliest memories as a child was my family moving to the Pacific Northwest because my father, a Boeing lifer, had been transferred to the still-just-a-project 747 team in Everett. I remember how excited he was to tell us about different project milestones, and to show us around on family days at the plant.
Know-it-all kid that I was, I beat it out of town as soon as I graduated from high school and never went back except for funerals. Yet, full circle, there I was not too long ago taking my stepdaughter to a factory tour, telling her about the grandfather she never knew and trying not to tear up.
Here's to my old man, and the thousands of other proud machinists and engineers who made the Queen of the Skies.
My father, who passed away in 2003, worked on the 747 line in Everett for many years. It was his first job with the Boeing Company. He later moved to the 757 line, but the 747-400 was the reason he was hired at the company. It’s bittersweet for me and my family today to see the final plane leave Everett. Big thanks to those pilots who unknowingly paid tribute to my dad and thousands of other people who took great pride in their work on that beautiful bird.
i was a northwest orient flight attendant ...then delta by way of merger...at NWA we flew up to 56 747's...200's and 400's...i believe that was the number...no matter how many times i worked it...i was amazed and astounded by that planes beauty and engineering .passengers were awed and i will always be grateful to Boeing and Northwest Orient for allowing me to be part of such an american marvel
If you are flying Lufthansa, be sure to select row 88 if it is available. The front of the hump does not have a very good wing view at all.
As an ex-private pilot, I'd really like to know how the flight management system was programmed to make that perfect logo in the sky over Washington State. The flight following software shows the B747 flew a rigid set of programmed waypoints without distraction from wind or other variables that might have changed the meeting points in the exercise.
Really remarkable!
I thought there were two more 747s non cargo to build.
The two new USA president rides.
Is there some law that the president rides must have four engines?
They have already been built. They were built for a Transaero, who never took delivery.
They've already been built, two planes that a bankrupt Russian airline never took delivery of.
The FMC will fly point to point and makes corrections for wind to stay on the direct line.
You can draw genitalia or crowns in the sky, but you can't find runway 4L.
Imagine what it would look like flown by hand.
For now, I am a member of a small (but hopefully growing club). I have stepped aboard 747 #1, and I've also stepped aboard 747 #1574. Long may she fly.