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Boeing 747 - it was nice knowin ya!

Posted on 08/22/2016 11:57:32 AM PDT by djf

I was just talking to my neighbor who has a son that works in Everett.

He says the last 747 is expected to come off the line in late September, this year!

In my mind, this is just about the last thing I would recommend. Take a hiatus if you need one. But don't spend all your gumption on the 787.

Stick to planes that WORK! Like the 737...

Thoughts?


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: 747; aerospace; boeing; manufacturing
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To: Mears

My memory could be faulty, but I don’t remember any. I do recall that before 1973 your ticket alone was all you needed to board a flight and my Mom and Dad would come down to the hate to greet me when I arrived. ZERO security in any terminal. Then came DB Cooper, commies wanting to get into Cuba and musselmen commandeering aircraft everywhere. It was the start of “did you pack your own bag” and searches.


41 posted on 08/22/2016 12:46:15 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: djf
Truly a sad event - I remember standing on the floor in the Everette hanger in front of the first aircraft before it had rolled out. IT WAS THE MOST IMPRESSIVE SIGHT I HAD EVER SEEN back then. I thought the nation needed to cut CO2 releases and yet it would take 3 or more B-737 fights to carry the same number of passengers as a B-747 from point A to point B. I will never fly over the ocean on a twin - EVER.

The second most impressive site was viewing the space shuttle's external tank and taking in it's size (could not see to the other end through the viewing port for the exhibit) and the size of it's "sewer pipe size" fuel line (draining 526,126 gallons in approximately 8 min)
42 posted on 08/22/2016 12:47:59 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: djf

We had a Shuttle piggy backing a 747 fly over our place real low and later found out it landed at Whiteman.


43 posted on 08/22/2016 12:48:50 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: djf

Same here. It is not uncommon to see them headed in four different directions right over our house a minute apart. The Virgin A320 are the worst with their shrieking. Tens of thousands of people are hopping mad and filling meetings, but the FAA is giving all of us the finger. It’s a big FU, it’s our airspace, we are fedzilla and too bad for you attitude.


44 posted on 08/22/2016 12:50:25 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: TRY ONE

A 747 was the first plane I ever flew on. Calmed the nerves. It had a piano and a wall aquarium. Crazy.


45 posted on 08/22/2016 12:53:33 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“I do recall that before 1973 your ticket alone was all you needed to board a flight “

My first flight was in 1955——and we ate from real china.

(Sigh!)

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46 posted on 08/22/2016 12:54:22 PM PDT by Mears
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To: djf

A heckuva plane. An engineering marvel really, that revolutionized air travel.


47 posted on 08/22/2016 12:55:39 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: djf
As good as the 747 was when developed in the early 1960s, it long ago reached the limits of its design and of its air frame and engine technologies. Today, carbon composites, high efficiency turbofan engines, greater use of electric control and service technologies, more aerodynamic designs, and decades of other innovations make newer airliners far better than the 747 in fuel efficiency, passenger comfort, and reliability -- along with the lower maintenance and operating costs essential to airline operators.

In addition, the airline industry is evolving away from the hub and spoke route design that favors the 747 and other large capacity designs. The new model for the industry is to provide longer and more direct flights in efficient twin engine aircraft with upgraded seating and greater passenger comfort. Boeing and Airbus are both aiming at this market.

And, for all the tears shed at Boeing about the shutdown of 747 production, Airbus will soon be shedding far more tears -- and red ink -- due to the failure of its massive A380 to find enough buyers to continue production for much longer. Boeing suffered heavy costs due to its troubles with the development and production of the 787, but at least it has a fine aircraft to show for it, with a long and eventually profitable production run ahead of it. Meanwhile, Airbus's A380 is a technological marvel but a commercial failure.

48 posted on 08/22/2016 12:57:24 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: djf

Im just happy they fixed all those pesky center fuel tanks


49 posted on 08/22/2016 12:57:56 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: djf

As a kid, I remember seeing on the news the very first commercial 747 flight, a Pan Am 747 getting reading to fly from JFK to London.

There were moonbat protestors outside the terminal with big signs that said, “Ban Pan Am’s Flying Titanic.”


50 posted on 08/22/2016 12:58:16 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (You can't spell TRIUMPH without TRUMP)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Joe Sutter RULES !!!


51 posted on 08/22/2016 12:59:30 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Lower Deck

The DC-3 was extremely popular (and easy to fly).

There were still some in regular use in third world countries in the 1980’s and 1990’s. John Travolta owned one many years ago.

Eisenhower once credited the military version (the C-47 Dakota) as being responsible for winning World War II. Quite an endorsement from Ike.


52 posted on 08/22/2016 1:02:14 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (You can't spell TRIUMPH without TRUMP)
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To: djf

I remember dropping my girlfriend off at LAX in the winter of 1970. She was flying a 747 Swiss Air back to her home in Zurich. I was sad driving back to Orange County, but could see the big 747 our of my car window for 20 minutes as it left LAX and climbed out over Pomona and Mt. Baldy on a crystal clear day. (I still have this memory and the girlfriend - now wife!)


53 posted on 08/22/2016 1:02:50 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: oldplayer

Crystal clear days were not very common back then


54 posted on 08/22/2016 1:04:44 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: djf

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-07/boeing-quarterly-airplane-deliveries-slip-as-747-767-decline

http://aviationweek.com/shownews/boeing-gets-lifeline-order-russia-747-8


55 posted on 08/22/2016 1:05:42 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: djf
Only 3 current planes with 4 engines. 747-8, A380, A340

A380 orders are virtually dead.
Few airports have done upgrades for the behemoth.

Demand for the big planes just isn't there

56 posted on 08/22/2016 1:11:11 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: SW6906

The first thing my dad said when the announced that the A380 would be built is that it would be very popular in the middle east for everyone making their required pilgrimage to Mecca.


57 posted on 08/22/2016 1:16:57 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: PAR35

There is some variant of the 777, probably the -200LR you mentioned, that did a demonstration flight more than half-way around the world.


58 posted on 08/22/2016 1:59:32 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: PAR35

“From 28 April 2016, Qantas will be operating daily round trip non-stop A380 services between Dallas/Fort Worth and Sydney, Australia...”

Thanks, until April 28, Qantas used the 747 outta Dallas (direct to Brisbane/Sydney), and the A380 was used exclusively from L.A. to/from Sydney.

The A380 musta made some adjustments to get the extra fuel.


59 posted on 08/22/2016 2:00:40 PM PDT by TRY ONE (I never got the memo changing the name of Global Warming to Klimate Change)
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To: djf

With 2-engine planes having the same range and capacity (e.g. 777-200ER) eventually the 747 was going to be history. The only 4-holer left is the Airbus 380 and I think that frame is living on borrowed time too.


60 posted on 08/22/2016 2:01:21 PM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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