Flying the Rolls Royce B747 Test Bed - An Experimental Flight with 100% SAF
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- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2021
- I travelled to Tucson, Arizona to visit the Rolls Royce Boeing 747 Flying Test Bed (FTB). This special modified B747-200 classic is mounted with three RB211’s and one Trent 1000 engine. For the first time, Rolls Royce is using 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) to power their Trent 1000 engine as an experimental flight.
Before the flight, I was given a quick tour of the B747 Flying Test Bed. I met with the Rolls Royce engineering team and pilots onboard, they explained to me the test procedure on the Trent 1000 engine during flight. It will perform acceleration, deceleration and re-ignition during the 4-hour flight.
After takeoff, I spoke with an expert on Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and its current challenges and limitations. After 4 hours, the B747 safely landed back in Tuscon where I met up with the crew again. Can aviation go green? Let's find out!
Man, I hope to to continue flying in that age... Those pilots are awesome!
Old. Not obsolete. 😎😁😉
I am super to you
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Your videos are sooooo entertaining
Big fan love you man
Old veteran pilots know how to fly a plane better than anyone .RESPECT.
Or old veteran pilots also know how to fly a plane
Old school is the best school.
As long as they do not rely on IFR.
Not necessarily. Look at Aeroflot Flight 593 - the airline's most experienced pilot was put in charge of their newest and most modern airliner but failed to read the manual. Simulator flights in the aftermath revealed that had the pilot let go of the controls, autopilot would have corrected the abnormality.
With planes becoming more and more complex, older and more experienced doesn't always mean 'better'.
That plane is an old 747-200.
Does younger generation of pilots know how to fly this ancient plane?
Man, how smooth the touchdown is. What a legend!!
I'm not going to lie. I'd be exceptionally nervous if I boarded a plane and saw that the combined age between the pilot and co-pilot was 150 years old...! :)
Chuck Yeager once said that the fighter pilot with the most experience would always win the dog fight in comparable fighters.
Those guys nailed the landing which demonstrated their decades of flying experience. It's great to see guys their age still being valued and in demand. I'd also wager that their physicals for the commercial pilot licenses are rather extensive too.
cool seeing a 41 year old 74-200. I was a freshman in high school when this plane enter service with cathay pacific in April 1980. RR North America has had the plane since 2005
I love how massive the Trent 1000 is, as demonstrated by Sam sitting on the front of the engine nacelle 😮
Love the Oldie Goodie cockpit crew. So adorable.
Usually most of the 747-200s are in boneyards, completely scrapped. It's good to see that Rolls Royce has given some important to this aircraft. Hope that the company retains this plane for years to come. Great work Sam on this great capture and the video ! :D
I thought that was the 747sp.
@@Angry.General1461 The 747sp has a shorter fuselage, and larger rudders, elevators and wings. The -200 series are longer tho...
They recently bought a ex Qantas 747-400 will be replacing this -200
@@Angry.General1461 It's a Boeing 747-267B. This particular aircraft has had three owners with Rolls Royce North America being the third. This aircraft was originally built for Cathay-Pacific
@@ArmyofSeaturtles Oh okay, thanks for the info:), but hopefully should see the old bird around for a while before the -400 is used...
Always wonderful seeing a 747 Classic still in the sky, albeit it with an unusually enlarged engine no 2!
Respect Sam for his hardwork. RESPECT.
The pilot is amazing! His experience is superb while landing!
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I love how the plane is using entirely original instruments. From the 6 pack to the ADF and the VOR. Amazing.
Sam is so enthused at 13:00 asking how the flight went - the guys were perfect engineers: dry and serious. Thanks guys!
Thank you Sam! Keep these videos coming! Love these little ones highlighting certain things in the aviation industry we don't get to see. Some of the best behind the scenes videos in aviation. I wish you could do another video with the pilot. He would have so many stories to tell over his career!
First video ever on this topic of sustainable aviation fuel. Sam, you always add more value adding and qualitative content. Great to see.
It's nonsense. Just because the fuel is different, just think about all the materials it takes to build a plane. Not green.
Same for Tesla. The amount of fossil fuel it takes to make a electric car and battery pack is more energy than petrol car. And to charge the electric car requires major fossil fuel power grid. The whole green/sustainable stuff is all a joke.
Really nice to see that throttle handling on approach. He is compensating the idle thrust from engine 2 by further advancing the throttle for engine 1, all while leaving engine 3 and 4 where they should be. I think that is more difficult than it might seem at first. Especially if you consider the yaw moment as a result of the asymmetrical thrust whenever you advance or decrease a throttle lever. What a legend!
Aviation continues to do amazing pioneering work!! Being a nose ahead is so decisive. This requires the most motivated employees. 😊👍 This is one of the reasons why I love the familiar atmosphere in aviation. Of course, a time-honored Queen of the Skies is the right choice for this important project. ✈👍😍 Absolutely sensational! Another great report, Sam!!! Thanks! Cheers Matt
My wife and I have enjoyed your videos for a few years but we didn’t realize how interesting the technical side was.
Fantastic insight into positive green energy. The old 747-200s are amazing and timeless aircraft!
Mr. Chui, great aviation video from the beautiful Sonoran Desert - "Tucson." Thanks for educating us with the timeless "Queen of the Skies" and Rolls Royce testing SAF. Amazing what can be done when corporations take the environment seriously, innovate and apply their science for the greater good and future generations!!!
It’s amazing how much planes have evolved in the past 20+ years
Hi Amazing. Going form the passenger seat to the test flight. You are the ultimate passenger. Thank you for your enthusiasm and creativity and bring the viewer the never ending world of flights and travel. You have come so far from your first video in 2007, which I love, the 40 second video of being served coconut on dry ice aboard a A380. Fantastic Sam, you are the legend.
Yet an other great job by Sam. I'm so fortunate to have flown in a PAN AM 200 back in the mid 70s from UK to Italy. It was on a business trip so I got to go up the spiral stairs and fly on the upper deck. After that flight, I promised my self never to fly down stairs ever again if on a 747, and did so until 2004 when I semi retired from the bicycle industry. Again good work Sam.
Good to see Rolls Royce from the great East Midlands being at the cutting edge of sustainable flight.
Your films are incredeble interesting, each of them shows and teach me lot of things. It's amazing to see lot of stuff and places inside an aircraft which I can't see normally. I appreciate your high level english pronunciation, it helps me to learn it better :) I can't wait to see your next movie!
OMG analog gauges! That too on a test plane! Kudos to the test pilots. Pushing limits. Those legends are rocking it out there in the cockpit. This is an incredible video. I am speechless. Your channel has come a long way! Congratulations.
Spiral staircases, lots of memories there ....movie Projectors, .... one engine on fire....( you can still fly); ...safety drill sliding from Upper deck, very high and have to jump in the water from upperdeck as well...reminded me of B747 - 200 those days...
and pure garbage rubber air tube headphones for the low resolution in-flight movie. It was still the safest, best engineered, most system redundancy plane in the sky.
Hey Sam these tech vids you do now & again are some of my favourite. Very interesting content & the characters you meet are a bonus too! It`s good to see RR working hard on future proofing their engineering. Keep up the good work mate!!
You know he is a legend with the touchdown. Nice one
Spectacular what you do Airmen and for the advance of aviation. GOD Bless You guys!!!
Nice job Sam. I never get tired of watching the Queen!
I can't believe this old girl is still flying I've been on board this plane when she was flying for air Atlanta TF ATD. It's nice to see her still flying and not scrapped like most of the old 200s
So much experience those pilots hold is simply incredible
You never cease to amaze me, Sam! Thanks.
...Magnificent...I love that old pilot...you know that's the kind of pilot that will bring you safely to your destination. Hey Sam, Thank you !
You so much for this video, Sam. Really looking forward to a greener future for aviation.
Holy crap Tucson AZ thats home so cool to have this type of once in a life time event in aviation history in the big AZ
Kudos the all involved. These are the heroes of today for a better tomorrow.
Great to see the greener initiatives, Sustainable living not only required for aviation but also in all fields as we could see couple of days ago the temperature in Antartica has raised 38 degree although its winter there.
I worked at Tucson international for many years as a member of the Air National Guard unit there. That Rolls Royce 747 has been there conducting tests for at least 10 years. In my job I was able to move around the airport property and was able to get a close look at that 747-200. One day I was having lunch at a restaurant near the airport called Jerry-Bobs and I met the pilot that you interviewed. We had a short but interesting conversation.
Rolls Royce North America took ownership of this aircraft June 17, 2005.
Worked a ground crew job at T.I.A. FOR A FEW MONTHS AFTER RETIREING FROM A CAREER IN THE FIRE SERVICE AND SAW THIS EVERYDAY.
I go to the university arizona right now, i just randomly clicked on this vid and as soon and i saw the intelligence sticker i was like holy shit this was filmed in tucson. That plane just sits there all day
@@obtuselion1230 it takes flight a few times a month. R&D on engines and other systems.
Great job Sam. It is always a pleasure to see videos loke this one.
According to both Plane Spotters and Airfleets, N787RR has never operated for QANTAS. She started with Cathay Pacific and then went on to Air Icelandic before RR
Thanks for that research. I felt it was a BA, CP or QANTAS Classic, based on the iconic RB-211s. A bit of confusion for me re livery and ‘Spirit of Excellence’-thought it could have been adapted from ‘Spirit of Australia’. Also have heard that Rolls Royce may have recently purchased one of QANTAS’s superb, still young 747-438ERs for engineering test bed use…
I see this plane a lot when I go to Tucson, thanks for sharing this!
Thank u sam sir lucky to have u.....we enjoying each n every video of u...knowing something.
Sooo cool!! 👍😊 Love your videos Sam. Your content are amazing!
Thank you Sam. You got me at take off. Amazing to watch.
73 year old pilot and and an old 747-200 nice to see them in the air again.
Great to see how aviation is becoming more sustainable. Let's hope the shipping industry will follow their example!
A real pleasure to fly the 747 anytime, even only virtually!!
I think that's pretty cool that this 747 still has the flight engineer station intact along with NO upgraded glass equipment. That Trent 1000 engine is pretty big compared to the other 3 engines as well. Very neat video!
Always love to watch Boeing's Queen of Sky 747 💘
Those steam gauges looks so bad ass on this old flying machine. Good job Sam for another amazing video.
Rolls Royce and Super Sam taking the lead in aviation sustainability. Great job kind regards from NZ 💪💪😃😃😃
How do I keep finding people from NZ?? Also kind regards from NZ
Really interesting vlog Sam. That Trent is huge!!
A very interesting video- as someone who has like you loved 747s all his life I loved this video- great video and I love to see what leads upon the future of aviation! Great video! Very informational!
Very interesting the growth of sustainable fuel, also Easyjet is investing a lot on it, they are making some flights out of London Gatwick wth biofuel :)
easyjet is like ryanair, its for cattle people who like to be treated like cattle
Unfortunately, biofuel is kind of a scam. The most biofuels out there are energy negative, which means they need more energy to be produced than the energy they provide. It's a pity, because most people don't know that. The companies keep making them, because they can grab lucrative subsidies. There are various better synthetic alternatives out there. Real Engineering has some very good videos about it, I highly recommend his channel.
@@lucas_k23 okay, I'll check out that channel thanks
@@lucas_k23 Correct
@@lucas_k23 thank you for highlighting this. I never understood why people take in everything as the only possible option. Same with EV... why not build FC cars in parallel?
I live in Tucson and I'm suprised that I was actually there to see that plane take-off, I was wondering why one of the engines where different but here's my answer. It truly is a beautiful plane in-person.
Wow, that landing was so smooth 🔥
So cool! Thanks for sharing Sam.
Thanks Sam. Loved this as I am a Rolls Royce fan. Kudos.
Sam Chui is such a geek and well that's why I always watch him and his great work as I am also an aviation geek.
Love the vid Sam keep up the great work 👍 ✈
Fun fact : 20 Boeing 747 200 classic are still in service until now including this plane. Love this very cool video, Sam.👍
cheap to buy, redundancy if you lose the engine you are testing. Good choice for a testbed
@@Hans-gb4mv only issue is they’re expensive to maintain, and most are probably getting close to their flight cycle ‘limits’ (I forget what the proper term for it is but you get what I mean)
@@damonlang1185 cycles is not too big of a problem for a testbed. Those frames don't make 5000 hrs/year nor hundreds of cycles. And of course engine manufacterers are cherry picking when they buy a "new" testbed since they will spend a lot of money to set it up for testing. Furthermore these testbeds operate on special or modified type certification I guess. Safety will always be valued, but it's just different then commercially operated frames transporting passengers all over the world.
Cool to see how Rolls Royce’s engines have developed, and how the RB-211s developed into the Trent series engines with the Trent 1000!
Love the little string. Very hi-tech!
Thank god for these people! Incredible!
vary good testing and expeirment Roll Roise very strong Machine
Very nice Boeing and Rolls Royce very very nice staff.... awesome...
Fantastic video! Nice work!
Always loved the look of the 747-200 ... its a pity you didn't get to be on the flight Sam ... that would have been very cool but still such an interesting commentary and explanation !! Well Done mate !
Awesome aircraft! Great video!
Those old dogs in the flight deck. Reminds me of Space Cowboys. Respect ✊
Excellent report.
Seen that plane many times when I’ve flown into TUS!!
WOW, great video!
The best pilots ever seen .....how he made the plane land insane to the utmost perfection that is only through experience and expertise to land a plane like this
Insane? are all of Chui's followers like this?
The engine looks as big as the 777 engine. Love these videos as always.
Thanks Sam! Very interesting.
Wow, that Trent engine is absolutely massive.
Aircraft Looking So Beautiful 😍😍🛫🛫🛫
That engine looks gorgeous with 747
The size of that new engine, compared with the other engines, is huge!
This plane has so many redundancies. Amazing engineering.
Good one Sam!! As always, Sam and his great videos!! Sam you should come to Australia early next year and cover Bonza airlines (startup) and let us know their operating model. That should be interesting!
u deserve 20 million subscribers or even more they're such interesting videos and not boring unplanned ones aye who else agrees with me
I have seen this fly over my ranch in West Texas. Very cool to know why it comes out here and what they're experimenting!
Amazing video sam! Your really making a lot of videos during the pandemic. Keep the hard work sam!
Hi, if you get a chance, do browse through my channel on aviation reviews and consider subbing if you like. Thanks.
Breathtaking!
These are true heros. Bravo.
I was flying down by Mesa Gateway and took a video In the air of this same airplane landing 3 months ago. so cool
Epik video snd great test
So impressive 👏 B747. Love 💘 ❤ the video 💘 😻 📹.
Good job! Thank you Sam!
Hey, great fan your content and love your trvel vlogs :)
That engine is massive!
its amazing how the 747 has amazing power
Nicely done!
Sam as always a interesting informative vlog !
Great Video! Thank you.
So awesome 👏👏 Henry here from Tucson az