7 Airliners You Wish You Had Flown On Cargo aircraft, Vintage


7 Airliners You Wish You Had Flown On Cargo aircraft, Vintage

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 13: A Qantas Boeing 747-400, registration VH-OEJ takes off at Sydney Airport after it took passengers on a joy flight around Sydney Harbour on July 13, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Qantas is farewelling the Boeing 747 jumbo jet from its fleet of aircraft.


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Feb. 25, 2021. Twenty-five years ago, a Boeing 747 flying from New York City to Paris exploded in midair and broke apart just off the coast of Long Island. All 230 people on board the plane, Trans.


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An incredible never built Boeing 747-500 with propfan engines. It would have an impressive range to go London to Sydney non-stop and be ultra fuel-efficient..


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Boeing's Propeller 747 - The Never Built 747-500 Watch on Today, we will look at what the Boeing 747-500 was, how it improved on the Boeing 747-400, who would have bought it, and ultimately, why it was never built.


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TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747, bound for Paris, France with 230 people aboard, crashed July 17, 1996, minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport. After an exhaustive, four-year-long investigation, the NTSB determined the probable cause of the crash was an explosion in the center wing fuel tank. Evidence indicated the.


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An interesting illustration of the power [ 224 ] and weight features of jet propulsion can be obtained from the following comparison of some of the characteristics of the modern Boeing 747 Jetliner and the earlier propeller-driven Lockheed 1049G Super Constellation.


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Boeing's Propeller 747 The Never Built 747-500 2021-12-29 Advertisemen An incredible never built Boeing 747-500 with propfan engines. It would have an impressive range to go London to Sydney non-stop and be ultra fuel-efficient.


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NASA The size and success of Boeing's iconic 747 aircraft made it the perfect platform for a number of ambitious and, at times, strange modifications that would have completely altered its performance and look. Some of these modifications succeeded, resulting in airborne aircraft which, if only for a while, managed to perform their new roles.


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The Propeller 747 Lookalike: The Aviation Traders Carvair By Sumit Singh and Jake Hardiman Updated Oct 28, 2023 These quirky cargo planes were converted from Douglas DC-4s. Photo: Richard Goring | Flickr When spotted, the legendary Boeing 747 instantly stands out for its distinctive double-decker shape.


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Despite the end of Boeing's 747 program, there are still 50 active passenger aircraft operated by five airlines. Air China, Korean Air, Lufthansa, Asiana Airlines, and Saudia will continue to.


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Boeing 747 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After introducing the in October 1958, times its size, to reduce its by 30%. In 1965, development program to design the 747.


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One Boeing 747-400 originally destined to fly for Northwest Airlines was sold to United Airlines which was in service until United retired its 747 fleet in 2017. Northwest was looking for manufacturers to discuss the replacement of their 100, 110 and 125 seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9 aircraft, with an average age of 35 years. [2] [3]


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The Propeller Explained, a documentary made in the 1990s


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The Big Imagination project began that way too -- and grew into a group that raised and spent just short of $1 million to bring a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet (or rather, 3/4 of one) to Burning Man this year.


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Wreckage of the front portion of the TWA flight 800 Boeing 747 aircraft is displayed in its reconstructed state, Nov. 19, 1997 in Calverton, Long Island, N.Y. Jon Levy/AFP via Getty Images, FILE.


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The upper deck of a Lufthansa 747-8, configured in a 2-2 business-class layout (Photo by JT Genter/TPG) In the most recent passenger version, the 747-8 Intercontinental, the upper deck has the same floor space as a Boeing 737-700. The -8 is flown only by Lufthansa, Air China and Korean Air, which all have a business-class cabin on the upper deck.