What Happened To The First Qantas Boeing 747-400?
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2022
- The Boeing 747-400 Is a cornerstone of long-haul airline ops, and has been for over 20 years. It's an icon for many reasons over, which we're going to talk about at length in this video. She set records during her career in airline service, but also remains one of the best-preserved examples of the type today.
Did you ever take a ride on VH-OJA or any of the Qantas 747-400s? Tell us about your experiences in the comments.
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I have had the pleasure of flying on Qantas a 747-400 several times. Singapore to London return 5 times and Sydney to San Francisco return once.
Theres nothing quite like flying on a 747.
One time out of London at the end of a meal, and a nice glass of wine I was listening to Here Comes Te Sun by The Beatles on my brand new iPod and thinking it doesn't get any better than this.
The Boeing 747 has always been a much loved aeroplane, and now very much missed. Long live the Queen.
I’ve taken SFO-SYD multiple times, it really is an amazing flight onboard a 747. Sadly though Qantas only flys LAX and DFW to SYD, with LAX being on the A380 and DFW on the 787-9.
The qantaa 747-400er & china airlines 747 have the Boeing signature interior installed which give it a modern look.
I remember as a kid flying on OJA doing the island hopper operating as QF081 in 1995. The route was SYD-NAN-HNL-LAX. The gate in Sydney we departed from had no view of the apron so I was unable to see the rego. There was a delay in loading and we were held back by 40mins or so on the tarmac. The captain came over the PA and apologised for the delay and mentioned that he got permission from the company to “make it up in the air”. In amongst the announcement he made us aware of the significance of OJA and it was forever cemented in my memory. He was also true to his word as we pulled into Nadi dead on time for an evening arrival. That’s when my father turned to me and said “it doesnt matter if we’re departing late, as long as we get to where we are going on time”.
We took our then young family to see and board the 747 at the Longreach Museum. It is a beautiful aircraft of a bygone time. The other attractions at the museum were also spell binding!. I will most certainly be doing a tour of the HARS museum before I cark it! Thank you for this and the other Australian aviation videos you publish on RUclips, it is much appreciated.
So glad it was preserved for future generations to marvel at.
Been to the HARS museum and this plane 3 times. Its a great place and the tour guides are wonderful people
I flew on the 747-400 4 times. Two back and forth trips from LAX-SYD return. It was the first time I had flown on a 747 and seated in the Upper Deck was quite the experience!
I flew on a Qantas 747-400 from Brisbane to Los Angeles via Auckland, and another one from Los Angeles to Sydney.
Can you do a similar video on the Wunala Dreaming and Nalanji Dreaming Qantas 747s. To this day easily the best livery in aviation
I'm visiting Illawarra airport next month for an airshow. It'll be my first time and I'm really excited. It's a lovely spot
I live near the HARS Museum!
I've toured the 747 at HARS and it was great to see some aspects of the plane that you normally wouldn't see. There's a bunch of other aircraft at HARS worth seeing, many in flying condition like "Connie" the Super Constellation. By the way you can say it as "hars" without spelling it. You showed clips of the Founders Museum in Longreach. The Qantas 747 was called Longreach not just for range but the town where Qantas began. My last flight before the pandemic was on a Qantas 747-400 from Tokyo to Sydney.
I have VH-OJA as a mini Gemini200 replica. It's so good
took part in many checks of this aircraft on the ground in the early 90's and her first C check.
Not only flown on that beauty, but was happily able to board it again at the HARS museum.
Missing from the HARS collection are the domestic jets such as the DC-9 and 727, it would be great to see these examples in either Ansett & TAA colours
I remember this flew over my house carrying that 5th engine. Kicking myself for not taking a photo of it as I just stood and watch it fly over me.
Hi, Never really flown on the B747-400, but I do remember one of Qantas B747 that visited Seychelles that is where I live back in 2013, that aircraft was VH-OEB, I was still working for our national airline Air Seychelles when it landed and I also saw it take off for Sydney Australia later on that year.
I think I have flown on every 747 a/c Qantas owned but can't remember all the registration. I was lucky enough to spend over 23 years working for them. mostly as a flight attendant and been paid to do so,
Air museums are good for looking for historical planes
That's what they're there for, obviously.
@@Petriefied0246 hahaha
Hats off to Qantas for Keeping lovely jumbo -400 , unlike BA Who Retired and Scraped All 747s ,And Respect to Lufthansa and Korean air and Air China who Still Fly these Aircrafts,Specially LH who Operating 400 variants.
I was lucky enough to fly the 747-400 2 times in 2017 and 2018. YSSY-KSFO and KLAX-YBBN. Unfortunately I got quite airsick both times and could not really enjoy the 747 too much!
They should repeat its ultra long range for all of the 747-400
How’d she get the dent under door L1?
1:50 whoops, there goes your cap.
Lol😂
Cool. As of this month, at least 51 Boeing 747-400 are still in passenger operation including Lufthansa, Asiana, Mahan Air, and Max Air
Wait, do Asiana operate the 747 in passenger configuration because I thought they only operated the 747-400f?
@@heidirabenau511 it's HL7428
@@nurrizadjatmiko21 oh thanks, didn't know that Asiana still operated the 747 passenger variant
Does this plane still have its engines? I see some of the aerial footage shows it without them. Are they decommissioned or mocked up engines?
The egines were removed by Qantas after the flight to HARS. Also some instrumentation, hydraulics, pumps etc were taken back to Qantas base in Sydney to be used as spares.
Basically, anything that was of value was removed and the static airframe dummied up to look complete.
@@malcolmduncan3047 thanks for that!
It’s the HISTORIC aircraft restoration…. Not historical I believe.
Also, it’s pronounced ILLA WORRA not ILLA WAHRAH.
Travolta’s 707 is a -138B not a -138.
Also, it wasn’t really built especially for Qantas, it was part of a USAF order that was cut short by the USAF and Qantas bought the slots. The KC-135 was shorter so it was called a 100 series. Pan American had 77-121 but they were slightly longer because they were the standard 707-100.
The Qantas aircraft suited Qantas because the 10 foot shorter fuselage helped with departures from hot airfields like Nadi, Fiji to Honolulu.
What’s with the pics of Longreach museum and VH-EBQ? And Boeing pics of RA001? Nothing to do with VH-OJA. Viewers might think HARS (they call themselves “HAARZ” BTW they don’t spell out the letters) have RA001 as an exhibit.
What happened
The shear amount of wrong pronunciations in the video is mind blowing as a fellow Aussie.
Yes it was my first international fight to china
Probably covered more miles than the Space Shuttle
The flying kangaroo on the tail is known as the 'rat' down here.
Wow that’s how to say I got my money back from this aircraft 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽