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The 747 is a marvel. The 777 and 787 are stunning in their own capacities.
1 posted on 09/20/2017 9:22:24 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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My favorite place to fly was Upstairs Business class on a 747. Best seat in the house. Quiet and more private.


2 posted on 09/20/2017 9:26:34 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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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.


3 posted on 09/20/2017 9:29:07 PM PDT by katana
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I took that flight San Francisco Honolulu on the 747


4 posted on 09/20/2017 9:30:02 PM PDT by Mears
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I used to live near O’Hare and always enjoyed seeing them take off.


5 posted on 09/20/2017 9:30:50 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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The 747 is a marvel. The 777 and 787 are stunning in their own capacities.

I have never been on a 787, but I fly every year, from SFO to Manila and back. It’s a nice aircraft.

6 posted on 09/20/2017 9:32:40 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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Oops, on a 777 that is. Nice aircraft. 😀🇵🇭
7 posted on 09/20/2017 9:34:48 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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The 747 is one of the nicest airplanes ever built.


8 posted on 09/20/2017 9:36:23 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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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.


12 posted on 09/20/2017 9:54:55 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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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.


16 posted on 09/20/2017 10:36:20 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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19 posted on 09/20/2017 11:07:01 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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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.


21 posted on 09/20/2017 11:41:01 PM PDT by llevrok (A group of baboons is called a "congress." Just sayin' .....)
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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.


28 posted on 09/21/2017 3:58:20 AM PDT by Vinnie
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So how many 747s will end up mothballed in the Mojave Desert?

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29 posted on 09/21/2017 4:42:26 AM PDT by foreverfree
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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.......


30 posted on 09/21/2017 4:43:52 AM PDT by Arlis
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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).


32 posted on 09/21/2017 5:02:38 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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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?


33 posted on 09/21/2017 5:12:32 AM PDT by FrankR (Don't let the bastards wear you down!)
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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.


36 posted on 09/21/2017 5:16:02 AM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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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!


43 posted on 09/21/2017 6:07:20 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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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


44 posted on 09/21/2017 6:23:48 AM PDT by uncbob
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Made about 5 or 6 round trips O’Hare to Honolulu on 747s in the upper deck section. Best flying experience ever


47 posted on 09/21/2017 6:31:13 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcherhttp://www.stone)
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