| Anonymous, 12.02.2022 22:41 cool
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| Ken Swain, e-mail, 21.03.2020 02:15 I flew all models of this airplane except the 300. Two different version of the -100 three different versions of the SP, three different versions of the -20 abandon my last six years on the -400. That was a fantastic airplane loved the -400 the best of all.
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| Manny Puerta, e-mail, 08.03.2017 20:49 I was lucky to fly the 100's and 200's at UPS for 16 years and then NASA's SOFIA SP for a few years before retiring for the final time. The 747 is one of those airplanes that assists in making the pilot look really good. If you made a good landing, it was the airplane's fault. If you made a bad landing, it was your fault. It is truly a gentle giant.
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| geoff adderley, e-mail, 31.10.2016 20:18 What a great aircraft this is. From an engineering point of view the redundancy built in to the systems was ground breaking. I have to say with three crew members including a flight engineer , this was the ultimate operation that has ever existed.
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| George Haloulakos, e-mail, 21.09.2015 22:57 Great memories from many international flights to-and-from the Asia-Pacific Rim during the 1980s via PAN AM on its 747SP model. As PAN AM assigned names to their 747SP models, I recall flying on the "Clipper Lindbergh" and was delighted to learn that very same aircraft is now operated by NASA for its SOFIA [Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy] airborne platform. The name recognition of this particular 747SP during its PAN AM tenure is unforgettable. Nice to see it still in action. The PAN AM 747SP flying experience was the best ever! It was the "platinum" standard for international travel.
George Haloulakos - Author
CALL TO GLORY - How the Convair B-58 Hustler Helped Win the Cold War [ISBN 978-0-692-47545-4]
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| ROSIE ROSENSTEIN, e-mail, 04.02.2015 05:26 IT TOOK BOEING, P & W ALONG WITH PAN AM STAFF TO KICK START THE ENTIRE 747 INTO OPERATION AROUND THE GLOBE. THE FIRST TWO YEARS WERE TRYING TIMES FOR ALL THAT WERE WORKING THIS AIRCRAFT. FLIGHT CREWS, MAINT FOLKS, AND STATION STAFF. TODAY ITS THE WAY TO FLY AND ENJOY TRAVEL.
BOEING 747, from 1969 thru today 2015 PAN AM, YOU COULD NOT BEAT THE EXPERIENCE
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| Robert Gould, e-mail, 27.01.2015 21:11 Yes, the SP was quite an (ugly) airplane. Pan Am used them from ORD to NRT, but they couldn't carry all the bags, so we carried them in our 747-200s. On the way back to ORD we could carry 400 pax while Pan Am could only carry about 250. They didn't stay around for very long for a good reason. I have about 15,000 in NW 747s as pilot and another 1,000 as S/O.
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| PRT, e-mail, 06.01.2014 19:53 Flew once on an SAA B-747SP from CPT to JNB - 750 miles - climbed to FL410 !!! SAA flew these from CPT to Houston non-stop. I also flew numerous times with SAA on their B-747 "Super B" 200's around West Africa from JNB to LHR and Frankfurt. Sometimes a stop in Lisbon north bound was needed for fuel when winds were unfavorable. Pan Am flew the SP to Auckland and Sidney from the US west coast. The Venetia hotel owner has two B-747SP's used for flying clients to the hotel and casino. Both are based at LAS (Las Vegas)
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| Puma, e-mail, 30.12.2012 01:36 In my 25,000 hrs its the most enjoyable and comfortable AC I've flown.
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| b, e-mail, 09.05.2012 10:46 Love flying on these planes, smooth, comfortable and reliable
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| Jim McIntyre, e-mail, 11.12.2011 03:14 Did you folks leave off the most fun 747 of all. The SP!?
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| Kiril, e-mail, 20.09.2011 15:57 We have brand new 3 x B747-8 Freighters available for immediate sale. Delivery: January - February 2012.
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| Kiril, e-mail, 01.09.2011 12:03 We have 2 x B747-200F available for immediate sale. Contact us for more information.
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| George Fields, e-mail, 28.05.2011 00:23 I remember my first flight on the PA 747. I was PA sales Mgr. MIA. It was prior to starting scheduled service. We invited our best customers for a ride. After take off we headed north along the FL coast and the pilot set those engines so you could hardly hear them. It was like the magic carpet floating along and looking down on FTL & PBI. It was a salesman’s dream.
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| Dennis Phifer, e-mail, 14.04.2011 20:16 I was a load master for the 747C at ORD with Pan Am. Those freighters had a MTOGW of 771000lbs. Great airplane.
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| uncle mac, e-mail, 10.03.2011 21:49 Pan Am, Americas premier airline until incompetence and Lockerby killed us. Flew the 100/200/sp.Used all the seats. rated in the SP with Wild Bill Frisbe, The west coast chief pilot. I didn't finish, he said you passed and then gave the seat to the FAA pilot back to SFO. What a jerk. 15,500 hours down the tubes. Now to Family Air. We started with a Northwest 100 and thense into the trash. that plane ended out at the desert with a hundred others. Bad decision. V bad management.Oh yes, one of the pilots that flew the Lockerby plane the day before. too close!
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| Loomas Marshall, e-mail, 29.01.2011 00:44 I was posted at the old Atheine Gr air base in 1974 and being located right next to the runway was able to watch a lot of Action. One after noon in a heavy rain an Evergreen Airlines 747 was landing when I could see he wasn't going to be able to stop. Sure enough, he ran off the end of the runway almost in Jacque Onassis' house in Glyfada. Which by the way was around the corner from my house. The next aircraft to land was the SP being demonstrated by the crack Boeing test pilots. Well even in the heavy rain and a bad RCR they showed them how to do it. They made several touch and go's and was very impressive. The Evergreen was "fished" out of the gully and repaired by Boeing, and flew again.
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| L. Hower, e-mail, 11.01.2011 00:01 I have about 7,300 hrs in the left seat of a '47 having flown for PEX, COA and JAL. It's the best, in my book. Safe, sound and completely reliable.
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| Russ Adams, e-mail, 13.12.2010 17:03 From a maintenance perspective it is too big. Difficult to work on as a ladder or stand is required for practically everything. Heck, even the aft pressure bulkhead was so tall you would need some kind of ladder to get near the top on the aft side. I taxied one once in NY and I felt like a hippopotamus tiptoeing on a tight rope.
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| Bill Beshlian, e-mail, 04.12.2010 19:00 Best aircraft ever built. My last assignment as a navigator in the US Air Force was the 1st ACCS at Offutt AFB Nebraska. They had the 747-200 model and I have never flown on a smoother flying, more reliable aricraft then this.
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| g marxmiller, e-mail, 30.11.2010 19:18 I flew the 74 200, and 300 for SIA for six years a very reliable aircraft and fun to fly also flew 727 and 757 for EAL sham on FRANK LORENZO
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| Curtis Thompson, e-mail, 18.10.2010 08:24 Oops! You have a serious problem with your comments data base! Things I wrote for the 737 were attached to what I wrote for the 747!! Please contact me (ct@it4hire.com).
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| Curtis Thompson, e-mail, 16.10.2010 06:48 I returned from Vietnam to be assigned to final assembly quality control on one of the test 747 aircraft - the one that hit the bulkhead while performing the first landing at the Renton municipal airport. I caught a mechanic who had drilled a hole by error in the aft bulkhead. Later I was assigned to travel to the Everett plant to observe the SS door enhancements (supporting greater than expected body flexing) and also the leading edge panel slot enlargements (to allow for the greater than planned wing flexing).
And then my 'number' came up and I was laid off due to the overall economic downturn - never again to depend upon a large corporation for my employment security. I worked final assembly on units 3-x while the 002 and (I think) the 005 were in flight test. One of my actions was to 'tag' the vertical stabilizer for what I thought was a sever weak point in a pivot hinge bolt. Two or three weeks later the engineers declared the stabilizer to be built as designed. Well, maybe...
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| Jack Marsh, e-mail, 12.10.2010 21:20 I lived on Silver Lake near Everett Wa. I watched the 1st 747 take off on TV. I went outside and it came right over with a little F86 chase plane. I was thrilled. I have done a lot of flying and have never been in a 747. I also worked on the assembly building for a short time.
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| Scott Boyd, e-mail, 23.04.2010 07:40 United operated the SP, I believe they got them from Pan Am when they took over the Pacific routes.
It was actually quite a different then the other 747's especially the flap system which was completely different. More room for fuel in the wings and lighter, shorter fuselage gave it an extremely long range.
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| F Sta Martha, e-mail, 11.04.2010 20:41 "O" Avião!!!!
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| Darryl Johnston, e-mail, 10.04.2010 16:21 No mention of the 747-SP! shortened fuselage, less pax, more fuel very long range version. I believe they were operated only by Australia and South Africa (Still in the old days when SAA stood for "Slowly Around Africa" as SAA never had overfly rights for many African countries).
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| Kiril, e-mail, 05.04.2010 00:20 I am able to offer Boeing 747 for sale. Contact me for more information.
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| kevin kenyon, e-mail, 11.03.2010 17:07 I have never flown a plane at all but its amazing that a aircraft like the 747 can even get of the ground.
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| Dennis O'Connor, e-mail, 28.02.2010 02:31 I ablosutely loved this machine. I was fortunate to have flown it ( -100 / -200 ) for a period of 19 years for at total of approx. 14000 hours as pic....nothing ever came close before or after..Flew the DC-8 for several years prior and the G III / GIV afterwards.....nothing beats a Boing 747.....
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| Kim K., e-mail, 02.01.2010 15:49 The Boeing 747 is truly an awesome jetliner. I want to fly on the 747-400 sometime in the future. The 747-8 is going to be the next member of the 'family' and will have GeNEXT engines.
Can't wait for the 747-8's rollout!
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| Nawaf Nara, e-mail, 30.08.2009 22:26 God bless America
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| Jeff Reaume, 08.01.2009 23:39 It can fly for the same reason every other large airplane can fly. It has a hell of a lot of power and a lot of wing area. If you generate enough thrust and lift, you can get anything off the ground. :D
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| Richard Lynch, e-mail, 25.05.2008 03:42 The later model, B-747-400, had a TOGW of 875,000 lbs. The best plane I ever flew. The B-777 and, I suspect, the B-787 are even better aircraft. Boeing builds the best commercial aircraft (by far). Airbus, McDonald Douglas and Lockheed can't come close.
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| gavin frank, e-mail, 16.05.2008 23:07 would like to fly in this plane oneday
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| M/S Paul F.Palen,Ret (FRA), e-mail, 05.05.2008 15:17 I was based in (SJU)where PANAM started their first revenue flts so that the crews could get the most landings&T/O,s after Rozwell N.M. crew training,the "Whale" was the best acft we had,"Hands Down"I later hired on as a Boeing Rep and did the First Flt with the B-747-400 for North West.
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| Joseph J. Haas, e-mail, 29.04.2008 01:15 I flew this wonderful B747 for PAA/UAL from 1974-2001 for thousands of hours. What a great aircraft from the first -100 models to the advanced -200 models I flew. I also had the great fortune to fly the SP model which PAA had made for them to fly from SFO-HKG, LAS-SYD AND EWR-NRT. Those were 15 hour+ flights were the longest at that time. Made th the first flight from LAS-SYD and last SYD-LAS 2/12/1986 for PAA then. Those were wonderful years for me. Joseph J. Haas, Capt. PAA/UAL RET.
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| Roderic, 26.06.2007 21:03 Stewardess: "Dear passengers,at your service on our plane we have bar,laundry room,first-aid post, massage salon, disco,library, McDonald's, cinema, children's playroom, business/conference center, fitness center and swimming-pool. Please, fasten your straps now, and we trying to rise from the ground with all this fucking junk."
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| Jason, e-mail, 23.06.2007 18:46 *Try
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| Jason, e-mail, 23.06.2007 18:45 @anan tiwadom
Tra here:
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/AERO/airflylvl3.htm
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| paaksimaa, e-mail, 12.06.2007 15:33 I love all types of Boeing-747, specially its beautiful nose.
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| anan tiwadom, e-mail, 16.05.2007 03:25 i really don't understand why the airplane can flight
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