Get your B747-800 / BA poster...!
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Get your B747-800 / BA poster...!
I was at London Victoria killing time before a train earlier today, and picked up the latest issue (August) of Airliner World. Not a mag I buy very often - probably haven't for a year - but it's got a feature on the 'end of BMI' which I thought might be interesting.
Anyway, the pice de rsistance, is the free Boeing 747-800 poster, which features the best BA bird in the (current) fleet as one of the main images. This is the plane I think most of us secretly wish was fitted with a full complement of passenger seats rather than being stuffed to the rafters with a load of pallets and boxes...
Anyway, well worth picking up a copy of the mag, if this is your thing.
As an aside, the poster shows all the big fleets which have ordered the Boeing 'Super Jumbo'... And Boeing Business Jets is listed as having 9 orders, and a further 15 undisclosed customers. I wonder who these are for - could Air Force One be due an upgrade? Or are some very rich Arabs in need of a new set of wings?
Anyway, the pice de rsistance, is the free Boeing 747-800 poster, which features the best BA bird in the (current) fleet as one of the main images. This is the plane I think most of us secretly wish was fitted with a full complement of passenger seats rather than being stuffed to the rafters with a load of pallets and boxes...
Anyway, well worth picking up a copy of the mag, if this is your thing.
As an aside, the poster shows all the big fleets which have ordered the Boeing 'Super Jumbo'... And Boeing Business Jets is listed as having 9 orders, and a further 15 undisclosed customers. I wonder who these are for - could Air Force One be due an upgrade? Or are some very rich Arabs in need of a new set of wings?
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There is no such aeroplane as the Boeing 747-800. There is the Boeing 747-8I (passenger version), and the Boeing 747-8F (freighter).
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There is no such aeroplane as the Boeing 747-800. There is the Boeing 747-8I (passenger version), and the Boeing 747-8F (freighter).
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The following airlines have been operating the following actual Boeing models:
747-4R7F: Cargolux
747-8R7F: Cargolux
747-47UF: Global Supply Systems
747-87UF: Global Supply Systems
747-430: Lufthansa
747-830: Lufthansa
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As an aside, the poster shows all the big fleets which have ordered the Boeing 'Super Jumbo'... And Boeing Business Jets is listed as having 9 orders, and a further 15 undisclosed customers. I wonder who these are for - could Air Force One be due an upgrade? Or are some very rich Arabs in need of a new set of wings?
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And as for AF1, am I right in thinking that there are actually two of these birds - both identical?
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Don't lie! We know you're at the newstand at 5am on the day it comes out each month!!
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Overdue an upgrade and being reviewed now - which is politician speak for we're getting new 747s but we need to make Airbus think we chose fairly. Airbus also refuse to build them in the US, which is a requirement.
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To even pretend that Airbus will receive any consideration is laughable.
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I read somewhere that the only real question regarding AF1 is whether to replace it with a Dreamliner or a 747-8i. The article alleged that Boeing would prefer to supply a Dreamliner in order to boost the prestige of their latest model.
To even pretend that Airbus will receive any consideration is laughable.
To even pretend that Airbus will receive any consideration is laughable.
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Also as an interesting point, they are going to buy 3 new planes to help with the maintenance schedules, I guess so they can have 2 planes available at all times (which currently they cannot I supose).