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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
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    Sad end to them...https://www.airliners.net/photo/Aer-Lingus/Boeing-747-130/148851/L


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Boeing of old :)

    Today's Boeing :(


  • #4
    Class MayDresser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Sad end to them...https://www.airliners.net/photo/Aer-Lingus/Boeing-747-130/148851/L

    Why aren't they smelted down?


  • #5
    un5byh7sqpd2x0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭un5byh7sqpd2x0


    Class MayDresser wrote: »
    Why aren't they smelted down?

    Because they’re not an ore.


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Lia Elegant Hardwood wrote: »
    Because they’re not an ore.

    ore you sure about that ?


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  • #7
    Strumms
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    The first time I was on one was 1987 to JFK, I was 7... I’d been on aircraft a couple of times before, just shorthaul to Heathrow and Paris but this was like being on a spaceship, not an aircraft. It was just fûcking huge. My face at the gate was pressed up against the window in awe, in anticipation, in wonder of how that fûcking massive beast could plow across the sky at 33,000 ft...all the way to New York.

    It had an upstairs, multi course hot meal service to your seat, a film on a big screen projector , ‘Eat The Peach’... two aisles, more drinks, hot breakfast before arrival... I read in the Cara onboard magazine that with passengers and fuel it weighed over 330 tonnes.. to this day it’s a headfuçk how something of that mass and weight can get off the earth, climb to that height, feed, entertain and refresh and hours later.... arrive safely in New York...


  • #8
    con747
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    Just had to post something:)

    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.



  • #9
    KungPao
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    She’s one sexy bird. Sure she’s getting on in years but you still would.


  • #10
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
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    I was never on one :(


  • #11
    Hector Savage
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    Looks like it's production is coming to an end ...
    https://simpleflying.com/boeing-747-production-future/

    Sad, no plane like it, these modern twin jets are just boring, it truly was the Queen of the skies.


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  • #12
    Hector Savage
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    DsnmW0MXoAEZBSQ?format=jpg&name=medium

    Great photo.

    https://twitter.com/DublinAirport/status/1065636124767473664?s=20


  • #13
    dominatinMC
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    Montage of Feck wrote: »
    As this is post # 747, it would be appropriate to start a thread on the merits of the venerable Boeing 747.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcVguQgmN6A


    A marvel of modern engineering. Although not to everyone's taste, that livery is a thing of beauty too. The whole package is evocative of a romantic era of air travel. Nostalgia factor is definitely kicking in, but it seemed like a time when wonder and awe were at the forefront, instead of skepticism and cynicism which we tend to associate with flying now.


  • #14
    leanin2019
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    A380 is the Job lads, never mind the 747.

    What a beast.

    Seems it hasn't been a success though and will be eventually phased out.


  • #15
    dominatinMC
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    leanin2019 wrote: »
    A380 is the Job lads, never mind the 747.

    What a beast.

    Seems it hasn't been a success though and will be eventually phased out.
    I agree that it's an engineering masterpiece, no doubt about that. But I think it failed to capture peoples imaginations in the same way that the 747 and Concorde did. That's certainly not the reason for it's apparent demise (economics and timing are) but I just think it will be remembered more fondly in aviation circles, rather than the general public consciousness.


  • #16
    Rodney Bathgate
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    leanin2019 wrote: »
    A380 is the Job lads, never mind the 747.

    What a beast.

    Seems it hasn't been a success though and will be eventually phased out.

    747 outlasted the A380 production wise. Will be interesting to see which one is last to be completely retired. Some early A380s already scrapped.


  • #17
    Rodney Bathgate
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    687184main_EC01-0129-17-768x463.jpg

    Since the space shuttle was in the news recently...


  • #18
    Car99
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    Early 90's I flew on those Lingus 747's from Shannon to Dublin and vice versa. Must have been the shortest scheduled 747 flight route.


  • #19
    un5byh7sqpd2x0
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    I flew on one from Dublin to Edinburgh for a 5 Nations game back in the early 90s. My first time on a plane in fact.


  • #20
    leanin2019
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭leanin2019


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    DsnmW0MXoAEZBSQ?format=jpg&name=medium

    Great photo.

    https://twitter.com/DublinAirport/status/1065636124767473664?s=20

    That fence was looking a bit frayed


  • #21
    Hoop66
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    My first ever flight, in 1973, was on one. Singapore airlines LHR-Singapore via Frankfurt, Rome, Bahrain, Delhi, Bangkok.

    It took over 24 hours.


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  • #22
    Rodney Bathgate
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    First time I flew on a 747 was 1995, Dublin to Boston with stopover in Shannon. Plane left Shannon then had to turn back and we ended up on a smaller plane that required a stop over in I think Gander then on to Boston.

    Last time was to and from Japan last year.


  • #23
    Boscoirl
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    Flew in one from LHR to Singapore in the early 2000's, we were bused out to the plane, standing on the tarmac looking up at it was amazing, the sheer size of it was impressive.

    The bar on Emirates' A380 levels the playing field for me :)


  • #24
    Hector Savage
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    leanin2019 wrote: »
    A380 is the Job lads, never mind the 747.

    What a beast.

    Seems it hasn't been a success though and will be eventually phased out.

    A380 is impressive to see, but doesn't have the sleek beauty the B747 does ...
    It's bulky fat and ugly ... but sure, it is impressive when it takes off... the 747 has it all tho !!!

    Especially the 747-8 ... ****ing beauty ...

    https://magazin.lufthansa.com/xx/en/fleet/boeing-747-8-en/

    5962077.jpg?v=v4e16bb7e7a7


  • #25
    leanin2019
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭leanin2019


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    A380 is impressive to see, but doesn't have the sleek beauty the B747 does ...
    It's bulky fat and ugly ... but sure, it is impressive when it takes off... the 747 has it all tho !!!

    Especially the 747-8 ... ****ing beauty ...

    https://magazin.lufthansa.com/xx/en/fleet/boeing-747-8-en/

    5962077.jpg?v=v4e16bb7e7a7

    Agree. Cant remember if ive been inside an 747. Probably have.

    But inside the cabin of the A380 is what impressed me.

    You'd barely notice you were in a plane compared to other planes.

    So smooth and quiet is my memory of it.


  • #26
    BailMeOut
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    I got to see this shortened 747 '747SP' while working on a project in USA.

    488_0.png


  • #27
    CrankyHaus
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    leanin2019 wrote: »
    Agree. Cant remember if ive been inside an 747. Probably have.

    But inside the cabin of the A380 is what impressed me.

    You'd barely notice you were in a plane compared to other planes.

    So smooth and quiet is my memory of it.

    I was on an Etihad one before and found it just like any other plane, only bigger. Are you supposed to wander around them to get the full experience or something?
    Plus the A380 wasn't good looking like the 747, it literally looked like an Air - Bus, a double decker one.

    Similarly on a Qantas 747 I just thought it was a decent plane, rather than a different level of flying altogether.

    I honestly found the Aer Lingus A330 nicer to fly in than the A380, and the Emirates 777 nicer than the 747. I could get behind the newer twin engines like the 787 with its greater pressurisation (when it actually works).

    The 747 was a cool plane, but I'm happy to see the back of the hub and spoke model of Aviation in favour of the point to point model on humdrum twin engined aircraft. No poxy waiting in Airports for hours on layovers, spending a fortune on tarted up overpriced mush and getting a headache from announcements.


  • #28
    Capt'n Midnight
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    BailMeOut wrote: »
    I got to see this shortened 747 '747SP' while working on a project in USA.

    https://www.v1decals.com/sites/default/files/decal-images/488_0.png

    Sofia = Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

    there's a 2.7m 20 ton telescope down the back

    vvTSjUWyZXBkNAMWuKchJ5-650-80.jpg
    https://www.space.com/sofia-observatory.html


  • #29
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/687184main_EC01-0129-17-768x463.jpg
    Since the space shuttle was in the news recently...




    img643-1581708793.jpg
    You don't need a 747 to do that

    I give you the Myasishchev VM-T Atlant


  • #30
    BrianD3
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    How about these videos taken from the beach beside Sint Maarten airport. Afaik the 747s don't fly to there anymore unfortunately

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu91oZ2_Vag


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfQwDizpRo


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  • #31
    jetsonx
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    The Boeing 747 is a bit like America - once great and cutting-edge but now in a state of terminal decline.


  • #32
    the-island-man
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    Hector Savage wrote: »
    DsnmW0MXoAEZBSQ?format=jpg&name=medium

    Great photo.

    https://twitter.com/DublinAirport/status/1065636124767473664?s=20

    I hear there's great drying in it!


  • #33
    Capt'n Midnight
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    jetsonx wrote: »
    The Boeing 747 is a bit like America - once great and cutting-edge but now in a state of terminal decline.

    Ironically it got it's look because they weren't expecting them to be in passenger service long.

    Putting the cockpit on top was to make it easier to load cargo because they'd be easier to convert into front loaders.


    But in a severe case of "not invented here" the US couldn't make anything better than Concorde or the TU-144 so they banned supersonic passenger flight and killed a market they couldn't compete in.

    And the 747 had to solider on.


  • #34
    Atlantic Dawn
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    the-island-man wrote: »
    I hear there's great drying in it!

    Complete with the scent of clean burning keroscene.


  • #35
    OU812
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    Love that plane (& livery). Such a shame they didn’t keep one, if only for cargo.


  • #36
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    I love the shape of the 747. At the same time both lumbering and elegant, like an elephant. The combination of the hump towards the front and the sharply tapered tail section is very aesthetically pleasing.


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  • #37
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    BrianD3 wrote: »
    How about these videos taken from the beach beside Sint Maarten airport. Afaik the 747s don't fly to there anymore unfortunately

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu91oZ2_Vag


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfQwDizpRo

    That second clip is always shocking to me. The landing gear barely cleared the car that was passing.


  • #38
    LorelaiG
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    First time I was on one was around 2005/6 on my to LAX at the age of 16 without my parents. Loved it. Have been on a couple now, they're getting on in years and you can tell when you're on one.


  • #39
    Skylinehead
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    1920px-YAL-1A_Airborne_Laser_unstowed_crop.jpg

    This 747 (The YAL-1) had a frickin' laser beam.


  • #40
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    LorelaiG wrote: »
    First time I was on one was around 2005/6 on my to LAX at the age of 16 without my parents. Loved it. Have been on a couple now, they're getting on in years and you can tell when you're on one.

    Oh my god, how? :eek:


  • #41
    Rodney Bathgate
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    img643-1581708793.jpg
    You don't need a 747 to do that

    I give you the Myasishchev VM-T Atlant

    That ‘shuttle’ was probably made of papier-mâché. :)

    I think the buran had one unmanned flight.


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  • #42
    Rodney Bathgate
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Oh my god, how? :eek:

    You can usually see the plane when boarding.


  • #43
    XsApollo
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    Was on one in 2008 for the honeymoon.
    I hated flying and don’t mind it now but it was my first long haul.
    Only plane that gave me a sense of calm on take off, it just felt effortless.

    Also the only airplane I have gotten off of that everybody turned around and started taking pictures of.


  • #44
    faceman
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    If planes did sexy the 747 would be the front cover of Playboy. I flew on them many times, even the older -200 series in 90’s, sometimes on my own as a teenager to Africa.

    There was nothing more terrifying than visiting the cockpit (remember those days?) to chat to the pilot over the Sahara and realising the dials and panels on the -200 were no different than a clock on the wall!

    Some beast though and once the kinks were knocked out, definitely one of those most reliable planes in the sky

    Let’s be honest though. While Boeing dominated the skies and let the way, Airbus started to make things more consumer friendly. The A320, A330 and A340 have quieter cabins than the Boeing equivalents. Really wasn’t until the 787 came along that Boeing caught up.

    Last time I flew a 747 was 2006 with BA to Nairobi. Got stuck with a seat at the very back (the least comfortable section of any airplane) and one of the cabin crew took sympathy on me and kept bringing cans of beer. I was well on getting off the plane!


  • #45
    cj maxx
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    1st time on one was from Dublin to...... Shannon :)
    School day trip, the pilot must have been giving us a show as he really gunned the engines on take off unlike any other time I've been on a 747


  • #46
    Pinch Flat
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    Flew St. Kieran on and only time, 1985 Shannon to Boston and back. I was 14. Can still feel the excitement today. Great aircraft. Pity to see it rotting in a desert. :(


  • #47
    Skylinehead
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    faceman wrote: »
    If planes did sexy the 747 would be the front cover of Playboy.
    It does have competition in the form of Blackbirds, Tomcats and Mustangs.


  • #48
    BailMeOut
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    I sat in Row 1 Seat 1 on a Virgin 747 from which you can kinda look directly ahead out the window which is really cool.

    BA use upstairs on a 747 for economy so always worth asking to sit up there as a lot less cramped as downstairs economy.


  • #49
    OU812
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    cj maxx wrote: »
    1st time on one was from Dublin to...... Shannon :)
    School day trip, the pilot must have been giving us a show as he really gunned the engines on take off unlike any other time I've been on a 747

    We did that trip too. On to Bunratty castle and then home by coach?

    I wonder if that was a standard trip or did we go to the same school?


  • #50
    AndrewJRenko
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I love the shape of the 747. At the same time both lumbering and elegant, like an elephant. The combination of the hump towards the front and the sharply tapered tail section is very aesthetically pleasing.

    They did look great. I did a few months at Shannon Airport in the 90s and SwissAir used to do practice runs there, so their 747s would repeatedly touch down and take off again all day long - mesmerising to watch.

    I flew on 747s with EI, NZ, and upstairs for South Africa Airways, which was nice.


  • #51
    eclipsechaser
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    My first time on a 747 was on November 23rd 2003. A group of like-minded nut-cases got on a Qantas 747 appropriately called "Longreach" and flew from Melbourne over Antarctica to intercept the Moon's shadow in order to see a total solar eclipse. I had just turned 20 and saved up from several years of summer jobs.

    The whole journey was over 14 hours and was a world record for the longest domestic flight in history since it left from Melbourne and landed in Melbourne 14 hours later.

    Here's a photo made by another passenger.

    TSE2003inprocess.jpg


    If you're wondering what it looked like, this is a sped-up version from a different eclipse as seen from a plane.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxBoVH0GQWw


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