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When you were "like" 8 or "about" 8? |
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It's all that carbon dust pollution in space due to Global Warming. Bush's fault don't you know? ![]() |
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I've worked on 747-100/200/400 and SP's
they're just "big" just like the C5, which I also worked on. not much too 'em other than being "big" coolest thing? low level, high performance maneuvering in these bad boys ![]() |
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Yeah, becoming a ball of flames during re-entry tends to do that. |
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I have only flown on a 747 once, it was back in July 2004 from San Fran to Chicago. It was a neat plane.
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I was at basic training at Lackland AFB in '83. We were on the drill pad while our TI went over how to walk or something. He called us to attention and had us about face, and here was this behemoth flying over, having just taken off from Kelly AFB (IIRC). What a sight. |
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See them all the time..........I live about 2 miles from the Boeing 747 Assembly plant.
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I saw the shuttle flying piggy back on it's 747 years ago when I worked at DFW airport. It was landing in Dallas on it's way to Florida. That think is huge and it looks like it's barely moving. I wish I had had a camera.
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Haven't been on one of those big bastards since '97 or so. It's a shame as I was always amazed at how big they were especially the first time you get inside one.
Next week on my Detroit to Frankfurt leg of my trip I'm going to be on an A340. ![]() |
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I don't remember not seeing them the last few times I've had the misfortune of visiting Newark Liberty Int'l, but there are a lot more MD-80's and little regional crap than there used to be.
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First flew a 747 in '75,SAS JFK-CPH,good thing too,as it was full. Later,in '82,flew a British Airways 747 ORD/Heathrow.
I remember when Delta flew them to DTW/LAX/MIA/ORD/DAL,lots of places where they mostly flew around quite empty. They all were gone by '77,replaced by L-1011s. |
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I dont see many of these jets anymore..Why the ![]() Ive been to about 20 major airports in the past 2 years flying and have not seen a single one..mostly lax,SLC, and dal.. |
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Yeah, we don't get out very much. Beleive it or not, a lot of us aren't going to be sitting at the airport in Tokyo or Hong Kong. Or really any of the airports you mentioned. |
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I see them quite often here in Seattle. Im sure living next to Boeing helps ![]() |
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How the hell did that thing get to Mach 1? ![]() |
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You won't see them at Love but you will see them at DFW. I see the Virgin 747's all the time at MCO |
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Got to see that 3 times when I was stationed at Edwards, damn is it cool to see. ![]() Matter of fact, I think watching the shuttle takeoff on the back of the 747 is cooler than watching the shuttle land. |
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Those Evergreen 747 i have worked with and their Pratt & Whitney JT9d-7J engines ![]() |
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I flew on one of those Evergreen 747's going to Kuwait from Ramstein...
Longest flight Ive ever taken was on a BA 747 London to LAX.... ![]() |
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Raw power. You have to understand that the maximum power needs for any aircraft are on takeoff, where they have to accelerate quickly and climb at the same time down at low level where the atmosphere is thick and drag is highest. Practically all commerical airliners cruise at around mach .8 or so, with the 747s cruising at about mach .85, at cruising altitude which is 30,000 feet or greater, where the air is thin, the engines are at their most efficient, and drag is lowest. So, what you end up with is an airplane that's cruising along at .85 mach with the throttles drawn back nearly to IDLE. Practically every modern airliner has the power needed to break mach 1 if you were willing to gamble your life on it. One limitation on flying a passenger jet is how steeply you can descend, because if your descent angle is too great, even with the engines at idle it'll break mach 1. Most passenger jets CAN break mach 1 but aren't supposed to as they obviously aren't designed for supersonic flight. But they do have the power to do it. Fortunately, they're always engineered with built-in safety factors and can tolerate overspeed conditions for a little while. And the general consensus is that Boeing aircraft have larger safety margins than do Airbuses. CJ |
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I've flown the 747s from: DTW-NRT DTW-NGO DTW-AMS I think Northwest still has 20 or so in the fleet. Twelve or so are for passengers, the rest for cargo. |
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I've made that flight. A long time ago. It sucked massive ass. Although it seems that I will be looking at 16+hours from LAX to Auckland later this year and I wanna cry just thinking about it. Any one know a cheap anesthesiologist? ![]() |
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Tylenol PM worked great for me on a couple of trips from Korea to Atlanta. |
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I always stay up the whole night before long flights like that, and then sleep a good chunk of the flight off. Tylenol PM and other sleep aids tend to make me feel drowsy even after a good sleep. A slightly longer flight but broken up in two was FRA to Seattle. Only had about an hour layover so I didnt get much time to stretch. My dad works in Saudi Arabia, and comes home for 2 weeks every 3 months. Something like 36 hours of travel time from start to finish.... ![]() |
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"Dr. Daniels, please pick up the red courtesy phone.." |
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<---Yup, my favorite.
Oh man, the Pan Am fleet... I miss them ![]() I used to remember all the "Clipper" names I flew on. Two that stick in my mind was "Clipper Witch Of The Seas" and "Clipper Seven Seas" I never did get the name of the one that crashed in Lockerbe Scotland though. I remember that was the week I flew from LA to NY on Pan Am. |
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Your comment shows ignorance, as these aircraft are everywhere, apparenty wherever you aren't. |
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