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The Boeing 747 Came In With A Bang And Now It Will Go Out With One
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| September 19, 2017
| Ted Reed
Posted on 09/20/2017 9:22:24 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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The 747 is a marvel. The 777 and 787 are stunning in their own capacities.
To: ConservativeStatement
My favorite place to fly was Upstairs Business class on a 747. Best seat in the house. Quiet and more private.
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:26:34 PM PDT
by
Oldexpat
To: ConservativeStatement
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.
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:29:07 PM PDT
by
katana
To: ConservativeStatement
I took that flight San Francisco Honolulu on the 747
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:30:02 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: ConservativeStatement
I used to live near O’Hare and always enjoyed seeing them take off.
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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.)
To: ConservativeStatement
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. Its a nice aircraft.
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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)
To: ConservativeStatement
Oops, on a 777 that is. Nice aircraft. 😀🇵🇭
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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)
To: ConservativeStatement
The 747 is one of the nicest airplanes ever built.
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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.))
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
To: Oldexpat
I had the opportunity to do that twice (well, four times, roundtrip!) to Hawaii. The company was paying for it thank goodness. I recall when the 747 first came out my dad brought me on a Rotary Club outing to the airport where they gave a tour of the new plane. I was ten, and even though it was the first plane I had ever been in, it sure made an impression.
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:37:52 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:47:53 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.)
To: ConservativeStatement
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.
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:54:55 PM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: Oldexpat
got quietly soused on Warre’s Porto up there on a Boston-Heathrow flight on BA back in 89. staggered through HM Customs and on to the rental cars (stick shift)..
To: Oldexpat
My favorite place to fly was Upstairs Business class on a 747. Best seat in the house. Quiet and more private. I got to do that once back in the day - DC to Seattle. Still ranks as one of my best flights. In many ways better than the few first class flights I've had.
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posted on
09/20/2017 10:18:36 PM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(Doing my part to help make America great again!)
To: Oldexpat
“
My favorite place to fly was Upstairs Business class on a 747. Best seat in the house”
too little headroom but did once stretch out on lockers.
Now first class in th nose!
To: ConservativeStatement
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.
To: Widget Jr
As a kid, my first commercial flight was on a TWA Constellation. It was over a decade before I got to fly on a jet. Being forced back into your seat by takeoff acceleration and flying so high that car headlights at night couldn’t be seen were what distinguished jet from prop, for me.
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posted on
09/20/2017 10:43:22 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: OldMissileer
I always wanted to fly on one. Of all of my trips, never a 747.
DC-10 check
L-1011 (my fav) several times
And most of the others.
I used to have first class upgrades and enough miles for 2 roundtrips to Paris on TWA. Maybe I’m fortunate I never got to use them. Because it was during that time, too.
There was always a TWA 747 loading up for Paris whenever I departed Lambert - it was right across from my gate - used to see it nearly every week or every couple of weeks.
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posted on
09/20/2017 11:00:15 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
09/20/2017 11:07:01 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: 21twelve
In 1974, I toured the Boeing factory in Everett, WA where the 747s were made. It was back in the day when you got REALLY good factory tours. There was a gallery around the enormous assembly room (the biggest building ever built!) and you could see the final assembly of LOTs of planes. I remember watching a video about the plane and seeing the flex load tests on the wings (yikes! do they bend!) and watching an over-rotation take-off where the rear end skidded on the runway for a long distance. I probably have pics from the tour somewhere.
I remember my first flight to Tokyo on a 747 (I think from Chicago) with a stop in Anchorage. It was a Pan Am plane and I think they were ferrying it to Tokyo because there were maybe 10 paying passengers on the entire plane! That was so weird.
Here's the Wiki pic of the inside of the assembly building:
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