#jumbo-jet — Public Fediverse posts
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1998 British Airways 747 Postcard
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G-CIVU - Denmark Livery
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#BritishAirways #B747 #JumboJet #Aviation #AirlineLivery #WorldTails #postcard #OldPostcard #AviationPhotography #Avgeek -
Air Canada Boeing 747-100 Postcard
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#Avgeek #Postcard #AirCanada #Boeing747 #Boeing #JumboJet #Canada #B747 #CanadianAviation #Airplanes -
Aerolineas Argentinas Boeing 747 Postcard
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#AerolineasArgentinas #Boeing747 #JumboJet #b747 #Argentina #Aviation #Airliner #VintageAviation #JetAge #Avgeek #Postcards #Oldpostcard -
Japan Airlines Boeing B-747 Postcard
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#JapanAirLines #JAL #Boeing747 #JumboJet #ClassicAirliner #VintageAviation #AirlineHistory #JetAge #AviationPostcard #Postcard #VintagePostcard #Avgeek -
Japan Air Lines - 747 - Mt Fuji Postcard
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#Avgeek #JapanAirLines #JAL #Boeing747 #JumboJet #AviationHistory #MountFuji #ClassicAviation #AirlineAdvertising #VintageAviation #747Love #AviationHeritage #TravelPostcard #AirlinerPhotography #AviationCulture -
1980 TWA Boeing 747SP-31 Postcard
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#Avgeek #TWA #Boeing747SP #JumboJet #ClassicAirliners #AviationHistory #WidebodyJet #747Sp #VintageAviation #AirlinerPhotography #HistoricLivery #CommercialAviation #AviationHeritage #Postcards #Travel -
A long goodbye to the Queen of the Skies
There’s no airplane that I’ll miss more when it vanishes from passenger service than the Boeing 747. The original jumbo jet hasn’t just helped to knit the world together since its first revenue flight in 1970, that iconic four-engine widebody has also been a recurring character in my own traveling life for decades.
For the first few of those decades, the Queen of the Skies was more of a regular character for how it owned most overseas itineraries and often soaked up capacity on transcontinental domestic routes. My first flight across the Atlantic that I can remember involved a Pan Am 747; I first flew across the Pacific on a Northwest Airlines 747. And at any airport where the 747 flew, there was no mistaking that aircraft, with its upper-deck hump and quadruple main landing gear, for any other.
(Especially if the 747 in question was one of the two operated by NASA and customized to fly space shuttles across the U.S.)
But by the time I boarded that NW flight from Detroit to Tokyo in 1998, the 747 was already starting to see its commercial sunset as twin-engine widebodies like Boeing’s 777 began securing safety certification to operate increasingly lengthy routes at lower costs than the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed L-1011 trijet widebodies that had once been the 747’s primary long-haul competition.
The first decade of this century featured far fewer 747 flights for me, although the one my wife and I took from Dulles to Beijing in 2007 stands out for a different reason: a seating overlap led United to move us up to business class. My final flight on a 747 operated by the airline I’ve flown more than any other came a decade later, when I was able to clear an upgrade and grab the last seat open on the upper deck of a 747-400 flying from San Francisco to Shanghai.
United retired the 747 in November of that year–and since I was at Web Summit in Lisbon that week, I couldn’t spend a ridiculous amount of money on UA’s farewell 747 flight from SFO to Honolulu.
But that was not my own farewell to the 747. Air China, Lufthansa and Korean Air still fly the 747-8, the final version produced, and a press trip to Helsinki in 2022 gave me a chance to apply an upgrade to a Lufthansa flight from Newark to Frankfurt and enjoy one more ride on the 747’s upper deck. The view up there has no equivalent to what you can see from a 777, 787, Airbus A330 or any other single-deck long-range airliner.
And then this Wednesday morning found me boarding yet another LH-operated 747-8, this time with a boarding pass for a seat in the nose. After years of reading trip reviews rhapsodizing about Lufthansa’s first class and reminding readers about how to redeem miles from partner airlines’ programs for that experience, news of an impending devaluation for Lufthansa redemptions made me realize that I had left one 747 flight undone on my checklist.
So I cashed in a large stash of Avianca LifeMiles, collected by leveraging a bank sign-up bonus earned in 2021, to book myself a one-way first-class 747-8 flight from Frankfurt to Dulles, burned some United miles to get myself from Dulles to Frankfurt, and used a Hyatt free-night certificate for the overnight stay in between.
(I wrote a longer breakdown for Patreon readers of the long game involved in this travel hack, including my surprisingly small out-of-pocket costs for this bucket-list trip.)
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve flown across the Atlantic, but I can report that Wednesday’s flight in seat 2K–below the cockpit and ahead of the front landing gear, so far forward that I could not see the wing–stands apart from those other crossings, and not only for the luxury involved.
If I never fly the Queen again–or the two other four-engine long-haul jets in commercial service in the West, the Airbus A340 and A380–that’s okay. But if another opportunity somehow presents itself to fly a 747, preferably upstairs or upfront… it might be hard to turn down.
#747 #7478 #A340 #A380 #avgeek #aviation #Boeing #Boeing747 #bucketList #fourEngineAirliner #jumboJet #Lufthansa #Northwest #PanAm #QueenOfTheSkies #UnitedAirlines #widebody
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Indian Sales & Logistics Platform Allegedly Breached https://dailydarkweb.net/indian-sales-logistics-platform-allegedly-breached/ #confidentialdata #corporatedata #DataBreaches #businessdata #consumerdata #Information #JumboJet #India #IT
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Alleged TP-Link Exploit for Sale on Dark Web https://dailydarkweb.net/alleged-tp-link-exploit-for-sale-on-dark-web/ #Vulnerability #autospreading #backdoor #JumboJet #payload #router #TPLink #RCE
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Les événements du 9 février.
En 1969, le Boeing 747, surnommé #JumboJet, effectue son premier vol aux États-Unis. Avec son look caractéristique, le Jumbo Jet restera pendant des années, jusqu’au lancement de l’Airbus A380, l’avion capable d’emporter le plus de passagers. La production de cet avion emblématique s’est terminée en 2023 …
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Digital painting: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #digitalPainting #virtualPainting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanrights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #insideSpace #innerLife #introspection #window #cellarRoom #bigEye #marionette #externallyControlled #jumboJet #transport #tank #gorilla #littleBoy #rowboat #oldWhiteMan #flood #inundation #chimpanzee #graffiti #stencil -
I like to imagine my own flight looked a lot like this one when we came over the Potomac and the roar of jets announced our arrival into the kind embrace of Dulles Airport on a muggy summer's evening, so I call this piece purely and simply, "Welcome Home".
#art #photography #clouds #cloudscape #airplane #aircraft #jets #jetaircraft #jetliner #jumbojet #flying #flight
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Farbe: Blauweiß #Fotovorschlag
Kranich in weiß und blau
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@mp3tobi ich kenne Eleni noch von #JumboJet und weiß welche stimme sie haben kann. Aber auch bei #Sea+Air konnte man manchmal dieses Potential hören, wie beispielsweise beim Ende von Heart of the Rainbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHXutBeIihs
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@mrazaxor A kto by chcel videť jeden zo skúšobných modelov v lepšom stave, tak odporúčam návštevu Technického múzea v Speyer (spoločne s Boeingom 747 a ponorkou U9). A komu by nebolo dosť, tak sa môže presunúť do sesterkého múzea v Sinsheime, kde vedľa seba nájde Concode a Tupolev Tu-144.
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Air India Boeing 747 Postcard.
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#Aviation #AVGEEK #airindia #B747 #Boeing #Postcard #Airplane #Airplanes #JumboJet #planespotting #flashbackfriday #India -
When you realize you've hit 747 followers 😅
I wasn't sure what I was doing when I joined #Mastodon last year. Since then I've realized that there's a voracious demand for racing news and content on here. Thank you for entrusting me in your TLs. Very grateful.
On the subject of the #Boeing747, the #JumboJet is the logistics backbone for all of #F1's air freight. About 6 to 7 B747 freighters are required for every fly-away (non-European) Grand Prix.
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#Throwback: A vintage magazine ad of the #UnitedAircraft Corporation, parent company of #PrattAndWhitney that made the JT9D turbofan engines that powered the first #Boeing747 #JumboJet airliners.
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Rode in a few of em: The last 747 rolled off the Boeing production line in Seattle on 31 January, 2023.
#AirplanesOfMastodon
#JumboJet
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/9-february-1969/?fbclid=IwAR0GJtsYyqCuOhdwCB9ItotXtPUzXfUobTThUVyRMyRiOIeMUdNDQzIq5A0&mibextid=Zxz2cZ -
Fly Free, Jumbo Jet.
The last Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet, a B747-8F freighter for Atlas Air, has been delivered.
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Die Produktion des legendären Jumbo-Jets ist beendet, 54 Jahre nach dem Erstflug 1969 und nach über 1500 Exemplaren. Boeing erwartet, dass die 747 noch Jahrzehnte weiter fliegen wird.
Ende einer Ära: Letzte Boeing 747 wurde übergeben | DW | 31.01.2023
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Die Produktion des legendären Jumbo Jets ist beendet, 54 Jahre nach dem Erstflug 1969 und nach über 1500 Exemplaren. Boeing erwartet, dass die 747 noch Jahrzehnte weiter fliegen wird.
Ende einer Ära: Letzte Boeing 747 wird übergeben | DW | 31.01.2023
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"The Boeing 747 is beloved in a way that most other commercial airliners are not... it just doesn't have the same emotional connection."
A short film on the Rise and Fall of the Queen of the Skies, the #Boeing747.
