Boeing 747

[TomcatViP]

Is there pictures of that?
There is one there (British Airways) but doesn't actually fits:

The 747 Piano Bar - UnRoadWarrior

When I read the much debated article in Time magazine on ’20 reason’s to hate airlines’ (here is my rebuttal to the article – Why...

unroadwarrior.boardingarea.com

Interestingly, you can see a pattern for airlines willing to recapture their customers gone into the private jet industry: more space on the upper deck with more entertainment to make again flying a social experience.

 

[mkellytx]

Is there pictures of that?
There is one there (British Airways) but doesn't actually fits:

The 747 Piano Bar - UnRoadWarrior

When I read the much debated article in Time magazine on ’20 reason’s to hate airlines’ (here is my rebuttal to the article – Why...

unroadwarrior.boardingarea.com

Interestingly, you can see a pattern for airlines willing to recapture their customers gone into the private jet industry: more space on the upper deck with more entertainment to make again flying a social experience.

I want to say yes, it was in an article in Smithsonian Air and Space magazine something like 30 years ago. No clue if it's up on the interwebs.

 

[TomcatViP]

In early 2021 it was revealed that a Boeing 747-8 was purchased by a mystery buyer, and it now seems that we know who the buyer is. One of the Boeing 747-8 test aircraft that has been in storage for years has been re-registered as SU-EGY, and it’s allegedly going to be used as a government aircraft for Egypt.

Revealed: Mystery Buyer Of VIP Boeing 747-8

Earlier this year it was revealed that a single 747-8 had been ordered from Boeing. It seems like this plane is headed to Egypt.

onemileatatime.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

The oldest passenger planes still in the sky

How would you feel about flying in a plane built 50 years ago? We go in search of aviation’s most venerable birds

www.telegraph.co.uk

Even still, it’s rare to maintain and operate an aircraft as venerable as Nolinor’s 737. According to Airfleets.net, which carries records for 43 models, the only older jets still active are in the hands of cargo firms and air forces. Caspian Airlines, for example, has a 52-year-old 747 (registration: EP-CQB) that once belonged to TWA – but it is used for transporting goods, not people.

Tehran-based Mahan Air has an A300 from 1984, for example, and has the oldest 747s still being used for passenger services (EP-MNB, born in 1989), while Zagros Airlines, also based in Iran, has a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 made in 1985. Little Eastern Airlines (formerly Dynamic Airways), based in Miami, has a 38-year-old 767, registration N605KW.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Quad-jets are dead, unfortunately.

Perhaps. Then again...

 

[Grey Havoc]

The The End Of a Era: Boeing 747 *1969-2020† and Boeing might quit producing the 747 threads got merged into this one?

EDIT: And the Boeing Cuts 747 Production Again, Everything Must Go! at factory that builds 747 fuselages, and United – A Fond Farewell to our Boeing 747 threads, in case anyone are looking for them.

 

[publiusr]

Quad-jets are dead, unfortunately.

Perhaps. Then again...

At least with a tri-jet---if engines got bigger---you could slide the tail-jet back a tad to keep the center of gravity and things out of the hands of code writers, no?

 

[Mark Nankivil]

Some -8s - Lufthansa coming into O'Hare in Chicago and the -8F departing DFW. My favorite version of the 747 lineage - the nacelles and wingtips along with the longer fuselage for a fine balance to the eye (well, mine anyway...), especially the -8F.

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VZO8Lt78Go

 

[mkellytx]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VZO8Lt78Go

One thing he left out that was in the news this week is that the new 777X freighters carry more by weight than the old 747 freighters and have twin engine economics. Since oversized is a small niche it isn’t that much of a pressing problem near term.

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1598648232757772290

View: https://twitter.com/DjsAviation/status/1598648232757772290

 

[publiusr]

That’s a goiter.

 

[Grey Havoc]

The last 747 is out the hangar door. A -8F destined for Atlas Air...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1600340425176326145

View: https://twitter.com/jonostrower/status/1600340425176326145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1600341412347670529%7Ctwgr%5E15f1b1f1b69ea39448f5ee1ecbf7fc66b941d6b3%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedrive.com%2Fthe-war-zone%2Fthe-last-747-ever-built-has-rolled-off-boeings-production

First thing my son said when he saw the images was what will Boeing do with all that empty building space? Good point....

Inevitable but a sad day nonetheless... Mark

 

[Michel Van]

the very last Boeing 747

https://twitter.com/x/status/1600341736639074304

View: https://twitter.com/HowardSlutsken/status/1600341736639074304
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[Archibald]

My mind is blown. 1574 airframes, 1969-2023. Rest in peace.

 

[publiusr]

Quads..dead clade flying.

 

[Hydroman]

End of an outstanding era. I read recently that if If Boeing can bounce back from from trail of manure they have left, the new name will be "Boing" this coming Spring.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Capitalism has lost the buccaneering spirit that gave us the Boeing 747

Most modern-day corporations fail to take the type of big bets that Boeing did

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[publiusr]

That article…and the book FREE FLIGHT on the demise of the VLJ/air taxi model should be required reading.

Musk, Branson and Bezos are just the polish on the modern aerospace’s guilded age rot.

It is why I support government led efforts in case those three go the way of Howard Hughes. Bezos might get religion, Musk go insane, and Branson? Eesh…

 

[Arjen]

Boeing 747: Last plane delivered in regal send-off

After 50 years in production, the last of the iconic planes to be built flies a crown-shaped route.

www.bbc.com

 

[Arjen]

After 16 flights and 30 flight hours, a Saudi royal's 747 BBJ sat on the tarmac for ten years. Now it is being scrapped.

Brand new Boeing 747 scrapped after 16 flights

The world's largest business jet, a Boeing 747 configured as a private VIP plane for a Saudi royal, is being scrapped after having spent just 30 hours in service over 16 flights.

edition.cnn.com

This particular one was intended for the Saudi Arabian government, and specifically for the Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, but he died in 2011, just months before the scheduled delivery. The plane, which was assigned a mandatory registration code – N458BJ – first flew in May 2012 for testing, and was officially delivered in June 2012.
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In 2017, orphaned from its original purpose, the plane went up for sale for $95 million – down from an original list price of around $350 million, according to Diver. It was still empty and advertised as “ready for conversion” in a brochure that can still be found online. But it never sold.

“No one apart from a Saudi head of state is going to want a private, four-engine business jet,” says Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst at AeroDynamic Advisory. “You can’t convert just one aircraft to cargo, and nobody wants a passenger version. As a consequence, the parts and especially the engines, are worth far more than the airplane.”

 

[publiusr]

I’m going to be sick.

 

[fightingirish]

Boeing starts ‘Air Force One’ modifications of 747-8

Known by its "Air Force One" call sign when the US president flies aboard, the VC-25B are to operate as the USA's top executive transports for the next 30 years. Modifications are being done at Boeing's San Antonio, Texas facility.

www.flightglobal.com

air force one concept from boeing image secure website, the livery is different from both the classic and the trump one

Boeing Images

Welcome to The Boeing Company's official source for licensed aerospace photography, illustrations and videos.

secure.boeingimages.com

The two future Boeing VC-25B presidential aircrafts will wear a paint scheme, which is more in line with the ones on the existing Boeing VC-25A presidential aircrafts. But a resident from Florida might call the new paint scheme "Woke Force One".

Biden Dumps Trump's Air Force One Paint Job For Iconic Design

Biden has picked a livery for the new Air Force One jets in line with the existing Kennedy-era design over Trump's red, white, and blue one.

www.thedrive.com

 

[Trident]

To be fair, the livery Trump proposed wasn't half bad, actually. One could have feared much worse, bearing in mind the instigator, and in most other government flying services it would've constituted an improvement. But it should have been glaringly obvious any attempt to drastically alter something so iconic and timelessly classy as the AF1 paint job without it ending up a regression was doomed to failure.

 

[publiusr]

Going out on top of the world

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/16k8vz6

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/16k8vz6/the_boeing_747400_is_the_only_heavy_widebody/

 

[TomcatViP]

Cool stuff

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXrSwKliAf4

 

[Foo Fighter]

With respect, where was the shock?

 

[Grey Havoc]

First flight of new Air Force One jet slips to 2026, Air Force says - Breaking Defense

Boeing is currently revising the schedule for the presidential jetliner once again, which is expected to be updated later this summer, according to an Air Force spokesperson.

breakingdefense.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

With respect, where was the shock?

Indeed. Hype is alive and well.