Visiting 747s in their last resting places
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
- Where are all the 747s now, and how can you see them? Here are some of the 747s I've been to recently and others around the world that you can visit today. If you love the 747 like me I hope you'll find this tribute to the Jumbo Jet interesting, and hopefully you'll be able to go visit some of the 747s around the world as well.
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How does anyone not like a 747?
I'm not a pilot, not a big international traveller, not a plane aficionado, yet such a beautiful piece of engineering that I adore.
That iconic silhouette is something we should all embrace as we grow older.
Agreed! It's a great looking aircraft as well as a great performing one, well said Steve.
A QF 747 brought me and my family to a new life here in Australia back in 1978 when I was 12 years old - I will forever remember that aircraft type with fond memories. I watched on FlightRadar when the very last QF 747 drew a flying kangaroo in the sky on its way out to its final resting place in a US boneyard...
Yes that final flight of the 747 was an emotional moment. Such a lovely way to send it off. Thanks Devan.
Same as my family, we moved here in 1990, it was the -100 stunning aircraft.
It’s the shape of the 747 for me. It is just such beautiful looking plane.
it's got the cool 70s vibe like the Intercity 125 HST
Thanks Stefan! The 747 is my absolute favorite. It’s the best plane that I’ve ever flown. But not just because it’s good or spectacular, robust or groundbreaking, which it all is. This airplane has a soul.
Remember when QANTAS was "the only all 747 airline"
Remember it! 😅
1979-85
I’ve flown in many 747s over my 50+ years. I was on a Pan Am 747-SP from LA to Sydney in the 1980s, and worked on Qantas 747s during my Avionics apprenticeship in the 1990s, including the ones in Albion Park and Longreach.
My favourite for sure. I worked in Singapore, and the A330’s out of Sydney were woeful seats, tired and not upgraded. So I worked out I could fly to Brisbane and catch a 747 that ran to Frankfurt, via SGP. Ahhhh bliss. I also recall catching a 747 to Singapore out of Sydney and we had to use the cross runway. Pilot stood on the brakes and ran the old girl up to TOGA - what a rocketship when he released her westbound! Awesome memories and great reminiscence Stef. Cheers!
Oh the beautiful queen of the skies
Loved the 747
The 747SP is my favourite 747. I flew on a Qantas livery one once, when I was a kid, around '94-'95. The stabilisers are huge! I believe it also has the highest service ceiling of any subsonic passenger plane at 45,000 ft.
From the Qantas website;
In 1974 Qantas made history when it evacuated 674 passengers (plus 23 crew) from Darwin after Cyclone Tracy - setting a world record for carrying the most passengers on board a Boeing 747. Pilot Donn Howe, who flew the empty jumbo from Sydney into Darwin for the mercy mission, recalled that the strips of runway lights at the airport were the only lights left working in the city. The cyclone tore the Northern Territory capital apart that Christmas, killing 71 people and destroying more than 70 per cent of its buildings. Over 30,000 people were evacuated, with the passengers on the Qantas rescue flight forced to share seats to fit as many people as possible. “It was a case of get on and hold on,” Howe told The Northern Territory News.
Amazing, thanks Stef! In 2022 I flew with D-ABTK from FRA to YVR on Lufthansa in Businnes Class and on my way back also with the same Aircraft, and because I only was 16 Years old at that time the Experiance was truly stunning and amazing. My favourite Airplane!
don't give up. there are always "news" about the 747s coming back as a twin engine commercial aircraft. thank you for your lovely presentation. I visited the second Qantas in Wollongong, but wasn't able to get in as they were taking the engines out for spares. I like to visit the control cockpit and the sleeping bunker for crews.
I am waiting for a 747 Electric 😉
Great video. I had my gallbladder removed on Thursday and recovery is going slow. Health interruptions suck!! I hope your recovery is going well. Thanks for cheering me up with this video.
first flight was on a BOAC B747-136 Nov 1971. A wondrous experience.
last was Sept 2015 on a QF 744ER LAX-SYD.
186 747 flights in total in most of the variants. Sadly never an SP but always memorable.
Beautiful allegory at the end Stef.
The 747 has been big in my life. I flew on one of the first ones built when I was little. My father was transferred to Germany and we flew there on a Pan AM 747 it's the first plane I specifically remember seeing. Much later I flew on a QANTAS 747 to start my new life here in Australia.
Great video as always, great to see you doing well!
I will never forget when VH-OEH performed not only a flypast of the 2015 Australian F1 Grand Prix, but an aerial handling display around the circuit... Once-in-a-lifetime experience! Wherever it is now, it should be moved to Albert Park!
Nice reflection Stef. Loved this aircraft since a kid too. My first was on a 747sp 1982 WLG - SYD
I was a Qantas Licensed Aircraft Engineer for 39 years and I helped maintain all the 747’s from VH-EBA to VH- OEJ and all the 747’s in between. I loved them all, but especially VH-EAA and EAB, the SP’s. I was there for the arrival of OJA, nonstop from London and still there the day it departed for Albion Park.
I did fly on VH-EBA in 1977 . Christchurch to Melbourne in January. No Business Class or Premium Economy back , so Economy seats went right up to the front.
I love the Queen, but my personal favourite.. is Concorde. Good to see you getting back up and going Stephen. Cheers to you buddy 👍🏽
Hi Stef, Great video again. I agree, the 747 is an iconic aircraft. I have flown my aircraft to Longreach and visited the 747 there. The highlights of the tour through that aircraft were going down into the engineering bays and then out to the cargo hold, and the second was being able to walk out on the wings. Out on the wing you get the best appreciation of how big the 747 is. Even if I stood my aircraft on it's tail the prop would not be as high as the pilots of the 747.
Just fabulous Stef. Heart warming seeing this! ❤
good on you. A subtle fighting spirit you have. Admiring that old lady in the sky. First 747 flight 1977 London to Bahrain to Singapore to Sydney to Melbourne....Duxford is a brilliant airport. I know you visited last year also Shuttleworth collection near Biggleswade.. Your confidence will return.
Living a stones throw away from Shellharbour Airport, I love having The Queen of the Skies OJA on my doorstep. A magnificent sight driving in and out of town; especially with the rising sun and mist surrounding it on a crisp winter morning on your way to work - it makes the day a whole lot better!!
Ah, mate, if this video is post operation, then I am absolutely delighted that you are well and back producing quality meaningfully videos. Stay well, get your clearance back and at some stage in the future, I look forward to share a drink in the iconic A 380 lounge on a flight to: who cares?
Love the 747. Flown on them many times. Interestingly, it's still used as the U.S. President's primary mode of flight, in their highly modified versions identified as Air Force 1. Sadly, Boeing has recently fallen into controversy, regarding their manufacturing quality of other aircraft.
There's also a 747 at an air museum in McMinnville, Oregon where it's been converted into a water slide! It's the same museum that has Howard Huges' Spruce Goose.
Haven’t had the chance to fly on a 747 but in western Germany there are 2 museums close by where in one you can visit a former Lufthansa 747 und an An-22 as well as a submarine and in the other there’s a concord as well as the tupolev. If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend you go there.
Thanks for the tip of the air & space museum in Paris.
I’ll go and see it in 6 weeks or so
It's my favourite also. Once after two months touring the USA, I boarded a 747 at LA, as I stepped in the flight attendant said " welcome aboard " and I said " it's welcome home for me". Although I was many hours from home Geelong. Also flown on the 747 with Aboriginal artwork, although the flights were ten years apart.
i am licensed as a engineer on 747-400 and loved that aircraft as in all the years working on that aircraft ,it was rare if the same job ever came up. did many trips to the USA on all models . it came with a variety of engines which made it interesting again. Boeing will never be able to replace it .
The SP is my all time favourite
My first flight on a 747 was when I was 9 years old, was back in 1973. Family had been on a European trip for a few months, my dad was a pilot for TAA and we got staff discount fares, but could only travel stand by, that meaning we could only get a seat if there where no full fare paying passengers. Anyway, we had been on our way back to Australia and were off loaded in Singapore after our flight from Athens on a Singapore Airlines 707. We waited about 5 days in Singapore before we got a seat on a flight home. We would go out to the airport (pre Changi) every night to wait to get a seat. Eventually we got sets back home on a Qantas 747, I was over the moon, was awesome boarding this huge plane, it was back in the days before,ore aerobridges in Singapore. The colour scheme looked awesome (still the best one), anyway, the flight was to Sydney. It was a late night departure around midnight, I remember harassing the steward to let me visit the Captain Cook Lounge when into the flight, he was having a dinner break and told me to leave him alone. But half an hour later he came up to me at my seat and took me up the stairs to the empty upper deck lounge and he let me stay there for as long as I wanted. It was an amazing experience for a young boy who loved aircraft and flying. Also watched a film, it was Walkabout. The film topped it off for me, an insight into Australia’s assume Aboriginal culture. I was in awe!❤❤❤
Feeling sentimental about the jumbos. Been flying since I was 5 years old (only memory was holding my gran’s hand) but it was always Qantas that brought us home in their 747s whenever we took family holidays abroad that I remember. Fond memories.😢
I got to fly in the SP version of the 747 around 2005 between Perth and Melbourne when I came down from the States to visit my fiancé. Flew in the 747 for the first time in 1979 on a flight from Boston to Munich and I've loved the airplane ever since.
I remember watching 747s landing at JFK from my Aunt and Uncle's house in the 70s and the vibration when they overflew us on short final. Great times.
Sadly both Asiana and Thai recently officially retired their last 744s.
Lufthansa will be clinging to 74s for a while yet. The 744s were planned to be retired but delays in 77X deliveries means they get an extended lease on life. Their 748s are planned to be in the fleet for many years to come...
Great video, Stef! I will always love the 747. I'm glad I had the chance to fly on the upper deck once. That was a blast.
Nice to see you're recovering well from the surgery, Stef! Hope it continues to go well and you'll get back to Echo Yankee Zulu in no time.
Also, the one 747 that 747 fans need to visit would be 747 number 1, RA001, at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. I had the pleasure of visiting that plane twice, and on the second visit I was able to check-out the interior - it was simply amazing. The history of modern widebodies began with that exact plane.
I've never been to Seattle but that museum is absolutely on my wish list. Thank you.
Thanks for another top video. Great to see that you are doing well. Cheers
I have the luck to live in Luxembourg where Cargolux is base. Everyday I get a chance to see 747 and it never gets old. Thanks for this great video
Oh that is lucky! Must be fun to see their 747s roaring in and out.
@@StefanDrury absolutely
The shortest 747 flight world record held by City of Canberra was actually beaten on 25th November 2019 by G-CIVG, a British Airways 747-400 that was flown from storage at my local airport, Cardiff Airport in South Wales, to the nearby MOD St. Athan for breaking, a trip of just 4nm or 6km. Flight time was 9 minutes.
Nice Stef
In my real young days it was known as the Jumbo Jet and is still that for me today.
Nice Plane!
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Thanks Steph, great video and you are looking very well.
Thanks Anthony, I appreciate that.
👍✅ Tks Stef, lots of memories for us on the 74
The 747 in Wollongong it also carried a spare engine from Sydney to Johannesburg.
Great memories of going up to the cockpit with my son on a trip back from Fiji in 1986, in a Qantas747
Great video on a wonderful aircraft - thinking about that "worlds shortest flight" on two occassions I was lucky enough to fly from London Heathrow to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire (a distance of 78.9 miles) to visit the annual "Air Tatoo" - not quite as short as that world record flight but it only took 15 minutes and with a light fuel load and no hold baggage on board the max take off performance was very impressive! Great video as ever Stef.....
TWO MEMORABLE FLIGHTS : first in the seventies (poss early eighties. ) LAX-LHR in a very early model TWA B747(100 I think) could not climb to normal cruise and also a trip from Singapore to Brisbane on a Qantas B747-200. The same aircraft that evacuated more than 600 people from Darwin during a cylcone in the seventies. It had a plaque . commemorating the event and then being invited on to the flight deck for the landing at Brisbane. Happy days. Sadly no more flight deck visits now and very few B747's although Lufthansa do still operate a few.
You should come visit Delta's museum in Atlanta.
They have preserved the very first -400 at the museum.
Another key feature of the 747SP was its range - it could do scheduled flights from SYD to LAX/SFO non-stop. It wasn't until the 747-400 came along that any other commercial aircraft could.
In terms of museum 747s, you definitely need to do the Museum of Flight in Seattle where they have RA001 which is quite special.
I've never been there but it's on my list of places to visit if I ever do this RTW flight. I'll add some notes to visit the 747 there as well, thank you.
Thanks Stef...
The current 747-8 is the end of the line for this famous aircraft but it will remain one of the most memorable planes in aviation history ?? Thanks Stef
The Boeing 747 is the queen of the skies, it’s at to see their number reducing
Love the 747. My last flight was on a 747 on a sightseeing trip to Antarctica, in 2001, an unforgetable experience, Still have my boarding pass, seat 1K right at the pointy end.👍✈
Had the pleasure of visiting VH-OJA, "City of Canberra" at HARS in Wollongong. Amazing guides showed us everything in the aircraft from the avionics bay to the crew rest and to the flight deck where we spent alot of time in. Quite a spectacular aircraft and I'm grateful for the amazing team at HARS museum who preserve and look after the aircraft and do guided tours of it.
Yes HARS at Shellharbour is a must-visit place for aviation lovers. Glad you got to go and see OJA there.
Not going to lie, miss your flying videos and cant wait for you to get your medical back. But this was super interesting and cant wait for more content like this. Love from Slovenija
Ah thank you, that means a lot. Glad you enjoyed it.
The 747 has been a big part of my life too - in fact a 200 brought me to Australia and was followed by many 400 trips and a handful of SP trips between Australia and LA. Seeing the cockpit of the 400 after the 200 was like walking into a spaceship. Four engined aircraft are my favourites and include the Viscount, Vanguard, DC-8, 707, BAe146, VC 10 and Super VC 10, A340's and the A380. And lets not forget Concorde. I just feel safer in 4 engined aircraft and they have a certain elegance that is not replicated in twins. Trijets are another favourite. Next jaunt will be either Longreach or Le Bourget.
Thanks Richard, hope you have a great trip to Longreach or Le Bourget, both 747s at those locations are open for visitors.
Me too, 747 all the way.
But as I get older and not so wiser and all the trouble with Boeing I hear Airbus calling, like how amazing are there butter landings 😊
Australia used to have a third 747, a Classic -300 variation, VH-EBU, scrapped last year in 2023, but it was a nice derelict plane to see before it was gone. There are many 747's across Thailand to see as parked displays/cafes around too, all ex-Thai Orient and Thai Airways aircraft.
Great Video Stef!
My favorite retired 747 is located at the airfield Speyer, where the base leg actually consists of flying directly towards the nose of the 747. Great pointer for me during flight training !
Another great video as always Stef! We’re planning a round the country trip later this year and have earmarked Longreach as a must-see destination for the Qantas Museum (and 747!)
As a kid in the 70s my father took us to Brisbane Airport so we could walk through the first Qantas 747SP; so I have a soft spot for the SP.
You should visit the museums in Speyer and Sinsheim in Germany. There you can visit another 747 and also a Concorde and the supersonic Tupolev
Just as I wake up in London 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Stefan uploads.🙂
I want to see a new 747 on the Aviation scene.
Glad to see you’re ok mate.
Great video Stefan. The first ever business flight I was lucky to take was on a 747 to London from Melbourne with just 1 stop
I've never travelled on a 747, although I would have loved to have done. The only jet aircraft I have flown on, both classics in their own right, are the Tristar and VC10.
Lovely
Great video, will always love the one true Queen of the Skies! Glad you are doing well. You should make more of videos of this style whilst you are on a brief stopover in your life. All the best Stef
Thanks James, I've had lots of time to think about aviation so maybe I will! I appreciate the encouragement.
@@StefanDrury Sounds like a great thing to think about! Glad I could be of encouragement.
The 747 will always be my favourite. And, unfortunately, with the 747 becoming more and more scarce, I find myself going less and less to my local airport to watch planes. Weird, hey? And indeed, the 747SP is my favourite among the favourites. We were blessed at AMS with China Airlines and South African Airways flying SPs on the routes. (And once I rerouted a vacation trip to the border of Mexico for an opportunity to see a 747SP I never saw!)
Would have been great to see an SP in real life, sadly I don't think I ever have, only archive footage and photos.
These is also a KLM 747 at the Aviodrome museum in Lelystad in the Netherlands
Stefan. Melbourne based airlines ANSETT and T.A.A. and others didn't fare well at the hands Sydney interests.
Certainly is a beautiful aircraft. During my business life I was fortunate to fly first class on 747’s
747 has more curves than Elle McPherson no wonder I like this aircraft so much. Agree with your thoughts Stef. Hope you’re doing well with your recovery.
brought a tear to my eye. hope to see you flying soon. swing by Tyabb (my local) and grab some coffee in town or some antiques. would love to see you cram a grandfather clock in the back of Echo-RUclips-Zulu! :D
It’s my favourite plane too. I like watching SydSquad livestreams from Sydney Airport. There are often cargo 747s on the streams.
SydSquad make some great videos.
Don't forget the 747 at the Aviodrome aircraft museum in the Netherlands. at the airport EHLE
My father manages the Jumbo at YSHL and he treats that thing like his third child hahaha
Great video as always, Stef. Hope to see you in the air soon. Cheers mate.
i went there on the 26th of April! its so cool!
We need a 747 2nd gen model
One of my car number plates is "BOE-747"
Well Stef, once you're back in full action (fingers crossed it'll be soon) there's a 747-200M waiting for your visit in Germany. Located at the Technikmuseum Speyer. And while you're there you might as well pay a visit to the Technikmuseum Sinsheim (another location of the Technikmuseum 33km away) where they have a Concorde (you can look inside) as well as a Tu-144.
This is great info, thank you. I'll be adding that to my list for sure. I appreciate the tips.
Go for a dive, not sure? Bet you won’t regret it! James
A Qantas 747 brought me on my first ever overseas trip to the UK in 2004. I’m now down an internet rabbit hole looking for which aircraft I flew on.
That is a good rabbit hole to find yourself in, make sure you report back if you find which aircraft it was...
Love your passion Stef :) You might enjoy seeing inside the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 747 variant next time you're in the US. You can walk around inside it and they have a replica space shuttle on top of it at NASA Houston ✈🛩🧑🚀
Thanks for the tip MrJames, that would be great to see.
I think it held a record for most number of people during the evacuation of Darwin after cyclone tracy.
In the early 1990s in Boston Massachusetts I was able to choose my phone number from a list at the Verizon store and I chose one that ends in “747“ !
Legend behaviour right there!
Come see the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft NASA 905 at Space Center Houston (and bonus it has an orbiter stacked on top)!
Never actually visited the Space Center in Houston, but I've just added it to my trip list. Thank you.
Great plane...except for the head-wobble you get in the back rows :( Did it twice 1999, MEL-LAX, LAX-MEL. My neck still hurts. How's your head Stef?
What was the name of the Paris Air Museum that has the 747?!?
I dient know aboot this!
Missed so many 330 overnight trips I could have found this!
How many 747s did Qantas have in 2015?
I flown on it from Santiago to Sydney. I'd love to know which one it was, I wonder if it's one of those two.
First overseas trip was in VH-OEJ Wunala Dreaming in it's red glory, can Qantas do another one? Unfortunately repainted in the corporate "colours", if only it had been kept red it may still be with us, but have my photo.
I saw the very first 747 land at Melbourne International Airport in 1971. That thing was incredibly big dwarfing the tug. I was 21 at the time and now I'm 76. to this day I have never flown on one. 🙄
I was just reading about that flight the other day, must have been amazing to see it with your own eyes. Thanks John.
Sully AND WHO landed on the Hudson??!! Always forgetting the FO...SAY HIS NAME!! :) And don't forget about the Flight Attendants who got everyone out safely!!! Kinda kidding, kinda not. Love your stuff Stef!
Yes good point, Jeff Skiles is oft overlooked in that incident but indeed was a critical part of the successful outcome. Thanks for raising that point Eric.
I’m hesitant to say that that Qantas flight from Sydney to Wollogong is the shortest, look at the flight that BA did from Cardiff International to ECube at St Athan..
Stefan great video on legendary 747, but I have to correct you .
The shortest 747 flight, in fact 2 of them took place here in South Africa when they parked a 747SP and 747 from OrTambo airport to Rand Airport both here in Johannesburg , South Africa - approx 9NM straight line .
Where can I buy those? Hello after. Better refurbished conversation.
Ex Pakistan airlines then Orange air 747 now stripped and in Soi 6 Pattaya, Thailand.
A380.
Surprised you didn't mention the SOFIA at Nasa.... a Telescope put into a 747SP to fly above the clouds.
That was originally a Pan Am plane. I boarded it at SFO in 1978, to fly home to Auckland. I'd never heard of the SP, and was very puzzled on boarding - where was the rest of our plane?!😮. Sad to see finally decommissioned, just last year I think?