My favorite place to fly was Upstairs Business class on a 747. Best seat in the house. Quiet and more private.
Pan Am trans-Pacific clippers in the upper deck business class section and Singapore Air First Class to London. Thank you, Jesus for letting me experience that. The Boeing 747 will always be Queen of the Skies.
I took that flight San Francisco Honolulu on the 747
I used to live near O’Hare and always enjoyed seeing them take off.
I have never been on a 787, but I fly every year, from SFO to Manila and back. Its a nice aircraft.
The 747 is one of the nicest airplanes ever built.
The 747 was the most comfortable aircraft I flew in on my many trips to Europe. The newer Boeings were also pretty good but the Airbus aircraft had seats made out of concrete and were terrible.
As a kid, the first time I flew in my life was on a 747, going from Seattle to Ohio. That has always been my favorite flight.
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In my first year of college (Ellensburg WA) we used to watch and stare at this HUGE airplane fly over many times a day. It was 747s doing pilot training at Moses Lake (Grant County : KMWH). Lots of JAL pilots etc trained there.
Years later, I loved flying in Asia on business. Most flights there were 747’s. My all time favorite plane for travel, upstairs in business class.
Flew MIA - ORD once on a 747, first class. We were near the nose, where the fuselage bends in. You could see somewhat forward. More interesting than the normal view.
And watching the wings flex up as they started to create lift on takeoff. IIRC they flexed about 15 ft.
My favorite plane is the 757 rocket. Climb out on that baby is just short of the space shuttle.
I don’t fly much but when I do I look to see if I can catch a ride on one.
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Flown on many 747’s, but never upstairs.
OTOH, I have flown in the COCKPITs of both a 767 and 777 on international flights (have pics to show it) - and that was an amazing experience, especially the triple 7. The 777 was a quantum leap from the 747 in every way - first plane approved & certified to fly by FAA without test flights and based solely on the CADD/CAM design process being approved.
Don’t fly anywhere anymore so doubt I’ll ever experience the 787, but hear it’s as big a leap over the 777 as the 777 was over the 747.......
When Prat -except had their 50th anniversary, at the open house they had, there was a 747. Beautiful plane...(my dad was an engineer for Pratt).
Somehow, after being there when the 747 was introduced, and doing a lot of flying over the years, I’ve never flown in a 747. How did I miss that?
Saw my first 747 on R&R in Sydney in 1970. It was visually stunning, even on the ground.
During my road warrior days I must’ve racked up a million-plus miles in them.
Upstairs in business. It was worth fighting over to get one of those seats.
I grew up on Long Island and I remember the very first 747 commercial flight.
I wasn’t on board, but it was broadcast on the news. It was a Pan Am 747 getting ready to take off from JFK to London.
The flight was delayed, and talk show host David Susskind and his wife, passengers on the delayed flight, got annoyed with the delay and walked off the plane!
There were protestors outside the terminal marching with signs that said, “Ban Pan Am’s Flying Titanic!” Sheesh.
My family lived in Massachusetts for a few years in the early 1970’s. On April 5, 1972, my parents, my sister and myself took our first ever trip to California, and it was also our very first flight on a 747.....a TWA 747, which flew non-stop from Boston to Los Angeles. It was a mid-week flight and there were only about 30 passengers on board.
I took a handful of 747 flights in the years that followed.
When I was a college student in L.A. MANY years ago, a college kid I knew worked part time at the ticket counter for TWA at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). He showed the other students in one of my class photos of himself sitting in the captain’s seat of an empty TWA 747 parked at the gate at LAX. One of his co-workers was sitting in the co-pilot’s seat. Later that day, that 747 would be flying non-stop from Los Angeles to London. I doubt if anyone could do that these days!
Went to JFK the 2nd week it was in operation to get pics
Back in 69
Took pics has a hobby until 2008
747 was still my favorite coming in for a landing
Made about 5 or 6 round trips O’Hare to Honolulu on 747s in the upper deck section. Best flying experience ever