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Old Dec 6, 2010 | 12:50 pm
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Originally Posted by jbcarioca
An earlier post asking about 747's in service made me remember this one, the hot rod of commerical airplanes. Because it was a shortened 747-100 it could only hold 230 passengers in the PanAm and IranAir versions, the ones I flew in.

I suspect there may be a few people with fond memories of these. I certainly am one of them.

So, does anybody ahve interesting stories of them? I have a few.
My first upgrade to First: SYD-LAX on Pan Am 02 Jan 1981 (sorry I can't recall the flight number, something like PA815). An almost new 747 SP named "China Clipper". FC was the upper deck and you could see into the cockpit when they left the door open for extended periods. IICR, someone on the crew said we were legal to FL450.
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