TV: The American Embassy and AA 747
Mar 18, 2002, 10:03 pm
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TV: The American Embassy and AA 747
At the start of this TV show there is a scene with an American Airlines 747 landing. Now correct me if I am wrong, but there aren't any American 747s?
Mar 18, 2002, 10:07 pm
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Not any more. There was a brief period when AA flew 747SPs and maybe a few 747-200s.
Mar 18, 2002, 11:07 pm
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i saw that and laughed out loud... that must have been an OLD shot, or an altered one.
Mar 18, 2002, 11:13 pm
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Mar 18, 2002, 11:56 pm
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An ex American 747-123 is now one of the Space Shuttle carriers.
NASA N905NA was AAL N9668.
Click link to see the NASA a/c with AA striping. You can still make out most of the letters.
N905NA
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NASA N905NA was AAL N9668.
Click link to see the NASA a/c with AA striping. You can still make out most of the letters.
N905NA
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Mar 19, 2002, 8:32 am
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Well, let's not forget that the show is fiction ...
The actual US Embassy in London doesn't exactly look like the one portrayed in the show either ... (well, I say that based on the promos, I haven't actually bothered to watch this show) ...
The actual US Embassy in London doesn't exactly look like the one portrayed in the show either ... (well, I say that based on the promos, I haven't actually bothered to watch this show) ...
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Worldtraveler36:
DL and CO also had 747's but I believe they had found them to not be economical after the gas crisis, too bad. </font>
DL and CO also had 747's but I believe they had found them to not be economical after the gas crisis, too bad. </font>
DL had a few, but did get rid of them fairly quickly. CO had 747's in their fleet until at least 2000, some flown by CO, some by Air Mike to GUM. But CO had 747's for a many years...
Mar 19, 2002, 10:18 am
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This was discussed here.
Mar 19, 2002, 10:24 am
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If you visit the London Transport Museum at Covent Garden, you will see an old tube "carriage" housing an AA poster advertisement promoting USA-LON service using 747s. I'm not sure if this was DFW or NY (post TWA route purchase). It struck me that the era of the advertisement did not seem to correspond to the era of the carriage on display.
Mar 19, 2002, 10:50 am
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They also flew 747 SP's to destinations in the U.K. There are pictures on Airliners.net - search for combinations of American Airlines and Boeing 747.
Mar 19, 2002, 10:55 am
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audio-nut, thanks for the picture! I'm too young to remember AA 747s, and enjoyed seeing the pic.
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Mar 19, 2002, 11:53 am
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Mar 19, 2002, 4:26 pm
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Well, at least they got the airplane somewhat right: this one is able to fly across the Atlantic. But too many TV shows and movies have shots of wide body interiors with people travelling from the USA to Europe or Asia, then cut to a 727 or other narrow body jet taking off or landing.
Caught the first episode of this series last week and the interiors certainly did not look like the US Embassy I am familiar with on Grosvner Square in London. Though the other night they did an aerial shot as part of a bridging montage, and it was the real neighbourhood. [Stayed at the old IC Britannia dozens of times through the 80s, so know the district well.]
But AA was an early user of the 747, along with PanAm for whom it was originally designed. AA had very few long range international routes in those days that would call for such an aircraft, so it never made a major component of their fleet, even when international routes were expanded. The DC10 became a more suitable aircraft. [And AA always had a closer relationship with Douglas Aircraft rather than Boeing, even though it was a big user of the 707. Goes back to the old days when United was spun off from Boeing.]
Caught the first episode of this series last week and the interiors certainly did not look like the US Embassy I am familiar with on Grosvner Square in London. Though the other night they did an aerial shot as part of a bridging montage, and it was the real neighbourhood. [Stayed at the old IC Britannia dozens of times through the 80s, so know the district well.]
But AA was an early user of the 747, along with PanAm for whom it was originally designed. AA had very few long range international routes in those days that would call for such an aircraft, so it never made a major component of their fleet, even when international routes were expanded. The DC10 became a more suitable aircraft. [And AA always had a closer relationship with Douglas Aircraft rather than Boeing, even though it was a big user of the 707. Goes back to the old days when United was spun off from Boeing.]
Mar 19, 2002, 4:50 pm
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Mar 19, 2002, 10:06 pm
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Is the show we are talking about called "Embassy" or something like that. I saw an ad once. My first thought was that I hope they don't cancel the series with an episode where the embassy suffers what the Nairobi embassy suffered a few years ago. That would be sick. I'd rather the embassy shut down because of budget cuts on the last episode.