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Oh does this make me feel really old! Not sure if it was the first 747 commercial flight, think it was, but anyhow, my father was an exec with Pratt & Whitney who built the 747 engines. He was invited to a VIP event for the first Pan Am 747 flight that was from New York to London. I was in Thailand flying B-52s but my wife was staying with my parents at the time so she accompanied my them to the event. Don't think she had ever been to anything quite like this and her letters reflected that for quite a while. Dad got to go along on the flight to London but my wife and mother could not. Anyhow thinking back on that got both of us feeling old and sad to see the end of 747 commercial service. Pan Am long gone and now the 747!
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Believe that was the first flight, not first commercial flight. I was still in flight training in 1969. Like I said Pan Am's first flight was in 1970, pretty sure that was first commercial flight.
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PO2 Peter Klein
PFC (Join to see) - From what I can gather, US passenger flights are pretty much done. There are still a lot of 747s flying cargo. And passengers on non-domestic carriers.
A friend of mine is a pilot for United. He says that one of the issues is getting parts.
He is sad to see the 747s go away.
A friend of mine is a pilot for United. He says that one of the issues is getting parts.
He is sad to see the 747s go away.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
That's always the issue with older aircraft. The parts supply chain dries up and an aircraft can be grounded for months waiting on custom made (and costly) parts. Saw with B-52 & F-111 in AF, frankly don't know how they're getting B-52 parts in 2017.
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Sad - loved that Big Bird.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747
The Boeing 747 is an American wide-body commercial jet airliner and cargo aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname, "Jumbo Jet". Its distinctive "hump" upper deck along the forward part of the aircraft makes it among the world's most recognizable aircraft,[5] and it was the first wide-body produced. Manufactured by Boeing's Commercial Airplane unit in the United States, the original version of the 747 was envisioned to have 150...
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