Detailed tour through a Boeing 747-200 Classic!

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Aircraft: Boeing 747-238B. c/n 22145-410
Registration: VH-EBQ
Rolled off the Boeing production line at Everett (Paine Field): September 09, 1979
First flown as VH-EBQ: November 28, 1979
Final Qantas revenue service Perth - Sydney as QF566: November 09, 2002

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0:00 intro
0:38 start at nose
3:15 pressurisation system
4:11 engines
5:40 wings
6:46 landing gear
9:10 enter inside
9:40 MEC - Main Equipment Centre
10:36 forward cargo hold
12:12 upper deck
12:30 flight deck / cockpit
16:20 black box flight data recorder
16:45 conclusion

[PaulStewartAviation]

Thanks for watching everyone! This is my first proper attempt at making more detailed tours around aircraft and I hope to do more of these in the future. If you identify any technical errors I've made, please let me know as I'm very happy to hear constructive feedback. Over the next two weeks I'll have videos out on the Super Constellation and Boeing 707 so make sure you've subscribed and hit the notification bell. Cheers.

[Jabber-igiw]

I see 747s every day, as they get rarer and rarer I appreciate them more.

[charlescampion]

As a teenager in 1986, I was lucky enough to be invited by the crew to sit on the flight deck of a new 747 from Perth to Sydney. Awesome !

[kiwimisty]

Back in the 1970s I had never even flown in a plane. I was a projectionist at the local cinema. Then British Airways and Air Canada introduced new summer Trans Atlantic flights but the company responsible for Inflight entertainment had no staff at Prestwick Airport to maintain the projection equipment so contacted the cinema where I worked for help. Myself and a workmate took up the challenge. What an experience. I was hooked. Working on 747s with both airlines. Air Canada also operated a Lockheed L1011 TriStar with inflight movies also. The 747 was effectively 4 cinemas 1 in each of the sections and the projectors were stowed in the roof space, slid down on slide runners for maintenance and rewinding the 16mm film, 2 full length movies on each reel. One for outbound and one for inbound. Being the 1970s the technology was cutting edge being another 30 years till we got the DVD. I also had free run of the flight deck, the location of circuit breakers we needed.

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My first flight on the 747 was in 1980. I was 8 years old traveling to Jamaica from Toronto with my family. Flew on it again a few times throughout the 80's and 90's when they were widely used around the world. Didn't think I would ever get to fly on one again before they went extinct but luckily just this past Oct (2023) I was able to fly from Vancouver to Frankfurt on a Lufthansa 747-400. A definite highlight of my trip for sure.

[JJay-mx]

you see that Boeing? Double Pitot Tubes and Double AOA Indicators. So many lives could have been saved if the MAX had it

[DiddyAD]

Most detailed walk through of a 747 I've ever seen, great tour. Good onya mate cheers.

[DennisBunnikTravels]

Sensational video mate - you're a natural at this type of video so keep them coming.

[brianmcdonald]

My first time seeing a "jumbo jet" was at the airport waiting to travel on one! My first ever flight was on a 747. I was so impressed with the size! It became my favourite aircraft despite all the different ones I travelled on. Hate to see them being retired, but glad some museums are preserving them. I think they truly deserved to be called "Queen of the skies"!!

[davidcole]

You are a cut above Paul. Looking forward to your work in 2021!

[mikeske]

I appreciate you nice video of the 747-200. I worked at the Boeing Everett plant that produced the 747's from 1988 until 2017 when I retired after just over 29 years. I worked on the first through the last 747-400's the last -200 the last -300 and then on the 777 line doing the interior fitments on both lines. It sure bought back memories seeing the queen of the sky

[JamesAnderson-mrsg]

great tour, brings back memories, was in the fight test program for the 747 back in 1969, 5 planes to test to certify it. Got to fly on Ra002 to NM for landing gear and brake certification. 3 go around full load, no thrust reverses, full stop immediate take off and no flaring on descent What a great plane

[mp]

My parents used to take my brother and I out to Sydney Airport to watch the planes when I was a kid back in the early 80s. My favourite was always the 747. It's sad that Qantas no longer flies the 747 but I was really lucky to get on Wunala for her last passenger flight from Sydney, which was an awesome day I'll always remember.

[bunkie]

That was a lot of fun. My dad ran catering for SAS in North America starting in the 1950s through the early 1970s. My dad, sisters and I got to see the very first Pan Am 747 at JFK when he loaded us into a company van and drove out onto the apron to get a good look. I remember him saying that it looked more like a ship than an airplane. He would know as he sailed as crew from Copenhagen to Saigon in 1945.

A few years later, I started working catering as a summer job driving the lift-body truck that serviced either the first class or economy galleys. The 747 first class service included supplying the bar in the upstairs lounge. All of the liquor, beverages, glasses, silverware, etc. were loaded into aluminum boxes that weighed up to 25kg each. I routinely carried two at a time up the spiral staircase. We had very little time to complete our work (I had a helper).

I loved working at the airport. One slow day, one of the mechanics gave me a tour of the below-deck avionics room, we climbed up the ladder from the lower access hatch. Very cool!

Being from an airline family, I’ve flown many, many times in my life.

One curious note: In 1970, we took a vacation to Trinidad, flying on a BWIA 707 which had, originally been delivered to Quantas. The interior panels had various Australian images as part of the design including kangaroos, something I found a bit humorous on a Caribbean airline. Perhaps it was the 707-138 in your other video?

Thanks for these great videos, they bring back some of my favorite memories.

One small point of correction: DME isn’t based on radar. It’s passive, using a radio receiver that measures propogation delay of a radio signal sent by VOR stations (those installations that look like white bowling pins surrounded by golf balls). DME is line-of-sight which limits its range. It is most often used for instrument approaches. Yes, my love of flying and airplanes led to my becoming a pilot later in life.

[delscoville]

I flown in one in 1978. It was operated by Pan Am. Definitely a different time back then. Flying was a whole different experience. It was a long flight from San Francisco to Honolu. We got three decent meals, even gotten a menu to pick what we want to eat. Upper deck was a lounge with a bar. We continued from Honolulu to Guam, but it was in a 727 MAC flight. On the way back in 1980, we flew both legs in MAC flights. But even then we got decent meals, even on the military flights.

[thomasjbak]

I grew up in Chicago. I was 14 in 1970. The 747 made a distinctive engine sound. We would run outside to watch them fly over our house. We were 4 miles from O'Hare and the looked enormous flying.

[SaturnCanuck]

That was great Paul. It was good to see the spiral staircase on the 747 again, I flew from Canada to UK in Wardair's 747-100 in 1974 and as a ten-year-old that was fantastic, I had no idea the 747 flew with RB211's! What a great sound they made on start-up 00 Lockheed L1011!

[michellemerry]

747 upper deck was the only place where a flight attendant went down the slide first in the event of an emergency to prove to the passengers that followed that it was not a steep path of death. I flew on a 747 that was ferrying an engine once. My Mom, a very nervous flyer, was relieved that her airplane had 5 engines!

[cjbeatsbipolar]

The first time I saw a “jumbo” was when I had the pleasure to travel on a Qantas -200 from Honolulu-Sydney as an airplane obsessed eleven year old on 1997. Looking at the iconic double deck with the flight deck up top was a dream, as the 747 was my favourite plane!

[smadge]

I went out to longreach just before Christmas just to check out the museum, and this was the first time I’ve been aboard a 747!