Detailed tour through a Boeing 747-200 Classic!

Join this detailed tour through a retired QANTAS Boeing 747-200B Classic at the QANTAS Founder's Museum in Longreach all captured in 4K. BBC documentary on the Boeing 747 Queen of the Skies: • Video
The QANTAS Founders Museum is located in outback Queensland and runs tours through all of these aircraft. Details here: qfom.com.au/
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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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#qantas #boeing747 #aviation #avgeek
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.

[@simonhusseymusic]

Beautifully presented with such detail Paul. Love this so much and what an incredible amount of engineering went into this beauty back in the ‘60’s. Love from Tasmania

[@afweath05]

You did a fantastic job sir. Pretty cool the curators opened the cargo bay access hatch for you to go into

[@ManmohanMohanty]

Hey Paul, check out my new video on HARS... HARS Aviation Museum, NSW, Australia - A must visit for aviation enthusiasts!

[@trevoranderson4404]

Hi Paul what’s happened to 380 no one wants that plane ?

[@erikchee1002]

Brings back memories. Worked as a flight attendant for a major airline back in the early 80s. The movie projector holds a continuous reel of film and there are 4-5 projectors--1 in each section. All passengers watch the same movie and we use mechanical headphones which are nothing more than tubes. Love the spiral staircase :)

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

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

[@PaulStewartAviation]

I fully agree. I'm very glad that I took advantage of a few of the domestic Qantas 747 flights that took place over the last two years.

[@willsco76]

All Boeing 747's have been retired in 2020 :(

[@jefferyepstein9210]

@@willsco76 Not as Cargo carriers

[@qffan6319]

@@jefferyepstein9210 yep still plenty of 747 freighters around. The 747-8i will be back too.

[@masteryoda498]

@@PaulStewartAviation I flew on a Boeing 747-400 as a domestic passenger between Sydney and Melbourne. It was only a 90 minute flight, but it was most enjoyable.

[@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.

[@iM3rLiNi]

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

[@shrimpflea]

That's back when Boeing was run by engineers.

[@up488]

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.

[@charlescampion9898]

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 !

[@747-pilot]

Those were the days when you could just request to view the cockpit and chat with the pilots, mid flight! That was before all the "security stuff" ruined everything for people today. I was 8 years old back in 1986! 😁

[@andydporter5136]

Did the Captain ask you about gymnasiums or gladiator movies?

[@charlescampion9898]

@@andydporter5136 Love the reference: very niche !!

[@charlescampion9898]

@@747-pilot Glory days !

[@sadenuttie2234]

Did you see Otto flying the plane

[@brianmcdonald6519]

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"!!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Absolutely! I feel honoured to have flown on them as there will only be a few airlines still flying them in the future.

[@Diddy1970AD]

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

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it. More coming :)

[@davidcole333]

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

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers David

[@mp4986]

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.

[@DennisBunnikTravels]

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

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers D

[@macktravels68]

Waiting for Paul to go inside and see Dennis in business class, PJ's and warm nuts!!! "Here's to a Great Flight"

[@bunkie2100]

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.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

cheers Peter. Thanks for the extra thoughts and clarification with DME which I'll correct in my next video :)

[@peterfinn6098]

Wonderful! I flew on this aeroplane from Singapore to Brisbane in early July 1996 as part of first long haul trip to Australia. We had to fly BA from Manchester to Heathrow, then Heathrow to Singapore on a -400 then this older 747. The service on Qantas was very good, even then. I remember plenty of free drinks being dished out by the crew and menu booklets in economy. The main meal came with a real porcelain dish with foil, as they serve in business class today. Flying was fabulous in that the service standards and crew were far superior compared with that of today’s standards....the QF crew were so down to earth and lovely with such strong Australian accents and called you ‘love’ not like the likes of today. I kept the boarding cards and menu booklets to this day but lost the in flight magazine which was reflecting on Qantas 75 year history.

[@TractorMonkeywithJL]

All that Collins equipment brings back memories. I've repaired a couple of thousand Collins black boxes for the KC-135 tanker, which was based on the Boeing 707. Mainly the boxes and displays for the instrument landing system, ASQ-141. That includes the ADI, HSI, radio altimeter, a couple of cockpit switch panels and all the associated black boxes that sit down in the equipment bay.

[@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.

[@jefferyepstein9210]

Enormous and seemed to fly slow. Beautiful planes.

[@michellemerry3592]

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!

[@JamesAnderson-mr2sg]

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

[@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!

[@captmulch1]

My father was a QANTAS skipper and flew that aircraft. Lovely to see it - thanks!!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@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!

[@machupikachu1085]

Wardair - that's a name I haven't heard since I was a kid!

[@cwiii3378]

As a retired United Airlines Mechanic I was lucky enough to work and taxi the 747-200 and 400 at ORD. Nice touch also showing the 5th pod.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers - glad you enjoyed it

[@ianstewartorr8455]

I flew on this model but it was air Canada from Glasgow to Toronto in 1993 I was travelling myself going to family in Calgary so I was upgraded and walked up those spiral stairs my seat was 61 J my first time on a 747 returning from Canada I was at the rear of the aircraft it was a magnificent time greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@scotthays347]

I was admiring the classic QFA 707 video... and thinking I may have ridden her back in the 1960s when my family was based in east coast AUS for several years

[@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.

[@delscoville]

Oh, and we didn't get to choose what movies to watch but we got to choose whether to listen to them (headphones). On our flight they played Oh, God!, and Herbie goes to Monte Carlo. Both were movies still in theaters at the time. As movies back then would be in theaters for about a year, if not longer if they were still making money.

[@Ben-xe8ps]

THREE meals on a flight from SFO to HNL?

[@matte8441]

The -200 has always been my fav of the 747 models, I find it more proportional looking with a shorter upper deck. It’s also my fav plane in general. First plane trip I ever took was a JAL 747-200 to Japan from Canada. Narita airport was packed with 747s during the 90s so as a kid it was really cool to look at.

[@OfMoachAndMayhem]

The longer 400 style hump is actually more performant at transonic speeds - it has to do with Area Ruling (the reason why fighter jets get flatter in the middle), which was not completely understood back in the early 747 era. Now, I personally have a soft spot for the 400, which I've spent at least 24 hours aboard as a happy passenger, which means, by internet standards: Your opinions are totally null and void, and your taste in aircraft is wrong and offensive!! XD -- J/K, the 74' is a beautiful Queen, in all her dynasties.

[@allgood6760]

Awesome.. my mate flew B747 's for Qantas and B707.... he flew a B707 into Saigon and was shot at it during the Vietnam War!... thanks from across the ditch 👍🇳🇿

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Chur!

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

I live in Pensacola Florida and the first time I saw a 747 here in Pensacola is when Air Force One lands at NAS Pensacola. I was born in 1976 and I’ve been a Boeing fan since I first flew on a Boeing aircraft in 1980 when I was 4 years old.

[@mariovuksanovic5077]

This is nice..the airplanes are on the ground sitting on their landing gears in a dignified way. This is a great video..I will give it a like and I will gladly subscribe. I personally dislike to see large jetliners on stands like if they were scale models or on top of buildings..like the museum in Germany or the united dc8 in California..or airforce one 707 in the Ronald Reagan museum. Keep them on the ground in a dignified way..just like they were wgen they were active. Who agrees with me? That's my opinion and I welcome yours.

[@joespittle1]

12:15, the kind of humor I can expect from one of Pauls videos :)

[@PaulStewartAviation]

haha

[@workhardtravelharder9313]

Such a fantastic tour Paul!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@smadge1]

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!

[@AndrewGuns]

Probably because it's retired, lol😹

[@pascalmoreau1225]

Very nice 👍 My shortest flight on board a 747 was from Charles de Gaulle CDG to LBT le Bourget in Paris for the end of the 747-400 Air France in 2017. The aircraft was opened to the public during a week-end and il was a pleasure to comment the visit.

[@manifestgtr]

Not only did they preserve a 200…they preserved one with RB211s which *doubles* the cool factor. I flew on a bunch of these (and earlier) on a trip to Bangkok back in 99 when i was a kid. In the 90s, there were 747s flying all over Asia on particularly high-volume routes and it was fascinating beyond belief. Huge credit to Qantas for this museum. Further evidence that Australians are some of these coolest people on the planet.

[@ImperialDiecast]

This is the most beautiful and detailed airplane review I have seen. Other people review cars, my man here is reviewing PLANES. And not just any but the queen of the skies. You keep the video short instead of an hour or so long, but still convey a lot of information. In language simple enough to make even the layman understand, I might add, while people in flight school still find it useful as well. Absolutely stellar work, keep it up. Bringing knowledge about vehicles to people have used them, but never really knew how they worked.

[@user-vk3ez6yc6e]

Thanks for the tour Paul. I imagined hearing Al Stewart's "Time Passages" as you looked this 200B over. Cheers.

[@fonzireyes]

Very professional presentation! The 747 will always be the queen of the skies.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

cheers - glad you enjoyed it

[@StrokerStevens]

Very good job on the video! I hold a FFA A&P mechanic License here in the US and I have worked on over 30 different aircraft. The reason it is labeled hot is, when in flight they are heat and when they land, the Pilots some times for get to turn them off! They are heated as well as the pitot tubes and the AOA vain. IF you touch it on the ground it can melt skin, I know this from personal experience… They use what is called an ACM (Air Cycle Machine). They are extremely efficient with taking the bleed air and cooling it off to where it can be below 0°C. By mixing the ACM air and bleed air that is how they get the air temperature just right as well as pressurization. The reason the CVR & FDR (Cockpit Voice Recorder & Flight Data Recorder) are called black box or boxes is that when they are recovered from a crash site is that they are charred vast majority of the time.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Interesting about the pitot tubes being heated. Now that you say that, I’ve heard of crashes caused by blocked ones. I suppose they are not red because they’re usually high up and away from wandering hands?

[@StrokerStevens]

@@PaulStewartAviation Yes. Many years ago I was on line maintenance and had been moved from the 727 crew to the DC-9 crew. I was doing the usual post landing walk around on a DC-9 when I reached up and flipped the stall vain, and in that 1-2 seconds I melted a little bit of skin on my thumb… After that I never went to the Pitot and stall vain until the aircraft had been sitting for a while. I know that we’ve had issues with the occasional pitot icing up, the pilot would refer to the other air speed indicator. Once on the ground we immediately swapped them out.

[@tomzimnoski97]

I remember seeing my first 747 at JFK around 1970 (I was about 5 yrs old). I loved it!

[@barushpena2172]

Such an absolute beauty, thanks for the tour

[@brentsummers7377]

My first ever flight on a 'jumbo' was on a Boeing 747-200, but not with Qantas. I remember being incredibly excited just before boarding! Super video thanks.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it Brent

[@Pullisto]

My first time seeing a 747 was at Auckland, May 5th 1977, walking out to board PAN-AM -121 N750PA 'Clipper Rambler' as a small boy of 8. There was no airbridge so the size was well impressed on me! Lets hope we in New Zealand can catch up with the rest of the world in airliner preservation with the grand campaign of Bring our Birds Home to save aeronautical and social treasures to our nation. This includes former ZK-NBV, the last pax ex Air NZ 747 in existence. Great video. I visited QFOM in July 2008, doing the 747 tour, brought back memories. Hoping to come again, when the covid mess is over.

[@johndoll1511]

I was fortunate enough to fly a 747-200 on a flight from Minneapolis to Seattle. I sat in the very back of a two seat row. I loved it.

[@mikeske9777]

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

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Fantastic! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I hope to get back to Seattle soon and refilm my Museum of Flight video.

[@mikeske9777]

@@PaulStewartAviation What so many folks do not realize that those aircraft were so much hand fitted together. When the -200 planes were built we had tools to fit it together but it also took a lot of adjustments to make as close to perfect as possible.

[@Bettina8987]

Was endorsed on that but never got to operate as in work on it. Fond fabulous memories thank you for the tour..so going there this year 2021

[@williamdixon1992]

Very nice tour thankyou! As a former Flight Attendant for Pan American World Airways I spent many hours on the Boeing 747 series 100 and 200s. I remember our crew bunk room located just behind Gally 2.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers William, glad you enjoyed it.

[@adrianbooth438]

Great to see the new roof, it wasn't there when I wing-walked that 747 in 2016!

[@kevinstone9638]

Thank you for this video. I flew on one of these for United Airlines as a child years ago from Chicago to Hawaii, and fell in love with the 747.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it Kevin. I hope you've seen my other Boeing 747 videos, and my Super Constellation tour will be out tomorrow. cheers

[@kevinstone9638]

@@PaulStewartAviation I will check them out and subscribe thanks

[@rangerrick8220]

Cool. What an iconic aircraft! Thanks for the tour!

[@nk7155]

I thought I knew quite a bit about aeroplanes. You proved me wrong by showing me parts of a plane I never knew about, mainly the exterior. Thank you Paul for making this video!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers, glad you enjoyed it. Please make sure you've subscribed as my 707 and Super Constellation videos will be out soon.

[@53bigmikejones]

Love the display of the older aircraft. Not many places that have them on static display and fewer that present them like in this video. Great job on classic birds

[@PaulStewartAviation]

I fully agree with you Mike. They all look fantastic together!

[@jamesfrench7299]

I wasn't particularly interested in this aircraft but clicked after the 707 vid and reading a comment how good this was. It was very interesting and I now feel I know a 747 more intimately than the average person. Can't believe that thing can fly.

[@hcrun]

In 1971 what became known as the "747 Hangar" was being completed at the QANTAS base at Sydney airport in preparation for the arrival of the company's first 747. The business for which I was working at the time was progressing with the installation of the "tail-maintenance lift" - a small (one man and his toolbox) traction elevator which gave access to two or three stages at the tail of the aircraft and the fin, thereby allowing easy access to those areas and items which needed attention when required. A work-colleague and I were aeronautical enthusiasts and would find any excuse to inspect the progress of the lift installation. The week following the arrival of that first 747 we visited the site - the aircraft was parked out the front of the hangar, with steps leading up to the forward entry. There was not a single QANTAS employee within cooee of the aeroplane and the security that we take for granted today was non-existent back then. Garbed in our white dust-coats, and with one of us holding a clipboard, we simply walked up the stairway and spent an hour in that 'plane, inspecting it from top to bottom, cockpit to tail, without any interruption whatsoever. It was amazing back then and, looking back from the vantage point of 50 years, it seems even more amazing now. VALE the Boeing 747 - a magnificent airliner.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Fascinating Ken! What a great story! Yes it was a magnificient airliner

[@johnpro2847]

I flew my 2 seater sport aircraft up from Brisbane(YCAB) recently and parked it in front of this B747. My plane looked insignificant, but it could fly !!

[@Joe-ov1ut]

My first and only flight in a 747 was either 1971 or 1972. Continental Airlines from LAX to ORD. After landing I was allowed on the flight deck and the captain allowed me to sit in the first officer’s seat. I was 11 or 12 then and what a thrill. Never boarded one for flight again however did get to go aboard the NASA 747 in Houston that is on display at Johnson Space Center.

[@Fifty8day]

Thank you Paul you explain complicated stuff plainly and interestingly

[@HeKuTK0]

This is the most informative plane video I’ve ever seen. Thank you

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

I’ve been a Boeing fan since I was born in 1976. You earned a sub!

[@moestrei]

When I saw the 1st 747 many years ago I was in total awe. I had tears when I saw the broken face of the one crashed at Lockerbie. I was lucky to fly the 747 many times SYD SCO and my awe never faded. She is and always will be the Queen of the Air. A380 is the King, best comfort ever. Both are retiring. Now we have 3+3+3 seating in aircraft designed for 2+4+2 and I just lost interest in air travel because I cannot rub sholders or sit twisted for 16 hours. The golden age has come to an end and it is not only the virus which caused it.

[@aviationgaming1564]

Any aircraft with any Qantas livery is a beautiful one

[@PaulStewartAviation]

That is true! It was looking looking in the background and seeing the other QF livery aircraft.

[@literallyshaking8019]

I’ll never tire of seeing the 747. It’s so sad they’re being phased out, Because I never got the privilege of flying in one

[@standingbadger]

Brilliant video. This was the first plane I ever flew on to go live with rellies in Sydney for a while. QF007 from LHR to Sydney with stops in Bahrain and Singapore, October/November 1979. I was ten years old and my brother was eight. And it was just us! A flight attendant called Steve was assigned to us and he was magnificent! He even arranged a visit to the cockpit mid-flight for us. Our first hot Christmas too! Everything in the plane is just as I remember it. We would go to the kitchenettes/food stations along the aisles to help ourselves to cold drinks and occasionally catch a couple of FAs snogging. Thanks so much. Subscribed.

[@Michael.Chapman]

Seeing this Classic at Longreach just went onto my bucket list of do before departure tasks! Your pan onto the 747 with those wee, tiny people standing on the wing is awesome…

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it 😀

[@OrionRox]

Amazing video!! I'm addicted to Felis 742 and this video just showed how majestic the 742 was!

[@lisahall9586]

Great video Paul. Another job well done

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers Lisa

[@lisahall9586]

@@PaulStewartAviation you're most welcome Paul.

[@thedatboi_]

What a beautiful queen that is right there

[@djvycious]

Great video Paul, thanks for sharing this! I love the old analog cockpits. There's a complete 727-20.0 cockpit at the aircraft museum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and the volunteers let me step inside, sit down and looked the other way while I flipped some switches! The biggest surprise was how comfortable it was. Although it was old, tattered and grey, much like the flight deck shown here, the seat was phenomenal! I was also surprised by how high up from the instruments the pilots sit. Perhaps I've been corrupted by the default seating position in flight sims, but you have a pretty good view out the window and really need to look down to see the instruments, and I'm a fairly average height.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers glad you enjoyed it. My 707 and Super Constellation video will be out in coming weeks.

[@iftahtsabary4464]

thank you for the lovely tour!!!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers - another tour coming on Friday

[@Beardedexpat7614]

Fascinating tour. Thanks so much.

[@aorakiboydog]

Best tour I’ve seen, thanks.

[@browntr4]

Qantas has such a nice display for their Iconic collection of great aircraft. Well done.

[@ruk2023--]

Fantastic tour.

[@jasongarufi8187]

I first saw a Jumbo jet in the early 1980s I was amazed ever since I have had a fascination with aviation.

[@DeputyNordburg]

Thanks for this. I love the 747 and flew on them many times as a child. I was on a British airways flight that fell 10K feet over the Atlantic with many injuries. I bounced around like a beachball but was fine.

[@jefffrankel9625]

I flew with my dad first class on United's San Francisco to New York non-stop flight. This was 1970 or 1971 I think - shortly after I graduated from high school. We visited the upper deck lounge - I think that this one had a piano bar. I was blown away by the luxury of all this. My later understanding is that the bean counters always wanted to put the upper deck into revenue service. However, the 747-100 and maybe even the 200 did not have enough engine horsepower to fly that many people and so it was used as a lounge until the later models of the 747.

[@RexyH267]

Great Vid. Paul, I loved your comment about the upper deck lounge & getting sloshed at the expense of QANTAS. A mate of mine found out the hard way on a trip to London, he fell down the stairs & broke 2 front teeth, but was feeling no pain!!!!.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers Rex. Clearly the stairs were designed before lawyers were invented. :)

[@RexyH267]

@@PaulStewartAviation Funny you should say that he & I both worked for an international firm of insurance brokers at the time he got the trip to London I scored PNG but no broken teeth.

[@jonahtuhoro3668]

Bruce is a lovely bloke and very knowledgeable

[@PaulStewartAviation]

I agree!

[@TheBillzilla]

My father and I did a trip around Australia about ten years ago, and we stopped at that museum. It was a bit of a coincidence, but when I was a First Officer in Fiji we 'borrowed' that 747 off Qantas while ours was in for maintenance. My father looked at the DC-3 parked next door, and he realised that he'd flown that one himself many years before. So the tour chap was quite surprised when we told him that we'd flown both those planes.

[@Boeing734]

I first saw the Queen of the Skies when I was on vacation in Austin Texas (summer of 2017. We were driving by KAUS and I was looking at the airport and there was a British Airways 747-400. Latter in September of the same year a Atlas Air 747-400I (gold livery) landed at my home airport.

[@jamesgovett2501]

You have a good clear voice for narration, good work, great to see these airliners are preserved for posterity, a retired Australian Airlines/ Qantas pilot friend of mine (now retired) flew 737’s domestically & since 9-11 everything changed forever as l was invited to fly from Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport to Hobart Airport & return to Melbourne with the pilots in the jump seat a 737-400 & l have cherished that experience ever since as those days are well & truly over for good.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers glad you enjoyed it. My 707 and Super Constellation video will be out in coming weeks.

[@MrGinga4life]

Learned so much! Love seeing this outdated tech throughout any older airliner. Feels so nostalgic!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers glad you enjoyed it. My 707 and Super Constellation video will be out in coming weeks.

[@Peteski-0]

Great level of detail Paul! Thanks. I can’t wait to tell someone about the naka vents!

[@erichannes6392]

Thank you for the tour! It was excellent!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers, glad you enjoyed it. Please make sure you've subscribed as my 707 and Super Constellation videos will be out soon.

[@aerorobnz]

My second international flight was on sistership VH-EBS. fond memories of a time when we could still travel unrestricted

[@mattr7274]

This video is so good. I’m almost lost for words as to the educational value of the information. Bravo. Thanks for being here

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it. Many similar tours on my channel

[@cesaraguilar6565]

Thanks, amazing presentation!

[@naturallyherb]

I was a few years old when I first got to see and fly on a United 747-400, and since I did not know anything about aviation back then, I didn't really have a reaction. In 2016 I was definitely really excited to get to see the first 747 prototype at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, it is definitely one of the best looking 747 out there.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Yep N7470 in Seattle looks great and it's sooo good to see it restored and inside.

[@radhaerc]

What an experience! Could barely look away

[@luiseduardodalpra2366]

great images! please receive our hugs from Brazil! here, we LOVE AVIATION!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers glad you enjoyed it

[@luiseduardodalpra2366]

@@PaulStewartAviation Captains Paul, sometime in your career you came to Afonso Pena Airport (Coritiba, Brazil) ?

[@maxthelab8457]

I flew to HK from Sydney back in '92 I think (?) on Qantas's last and oldest '200 - upper deck Biz cabin. Also into Kai Tak in those days. Also flew on plenty of '400's.

[@iain1969]

That was terrific Paul. Thank you.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@minkhs]

as a 5 year old - 1971 Amsterdam Schiphol KLM's first 747 arriving :)

[@SC-sf8xt]

This is so cool. What a great job of touring this aircraft. The level of detail was awsome.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers glad you enjoyed it. My 707 and Super Constellation video will be out in coming weeks.

[@nickledva]

Thanks for this video! It's nice to see someone with knowledge giving us a tour of this magnificent aircraft! Thumbs up

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers Nick

[@Paul-kw1og]

Qantas had 10 windows, however the 100 and 200 series shared the same upper deck dimensions. The 300 and 400 share the same upper deck dimensions. Pan Am only had 3 windows in the early 747 compared to Qantas with 10.

[@tangwilliams7342]

I really enjoyed your commentary. Great work and kept me interested from beginning to end.

[@1daddyDA]

Wow! Loved them ever since. Thank you the late Joe Sutter!

[@David-jj7dy]

Always its so weird to think these gigantic things get off the ground. Four tiny little engines keep this thing afloat. Your very smart with your aviation knowledge. Thank you.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

cheers David

[@ckmoeller9233]

Best tour yet!!!! I got to see more of the world that I could dream about in that aircraft. From Europe to Southeast Asia, lots of good memories. Plus a couple of great landings at the old Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, with a window seat. Doesn' t get much better than that.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers my friend - I hope you enjoy my other tours though the 707, Super Connie and the Qantas Founders Museum cheers

[@sadflandnav]

Excellent series Sir,

[@sincerelyinsincere9268]

When I was in my later teens (30 years ago now!) we flew with Qantas from the UK to Australia. I remember catching sight of the 747 we were to fly on and I simply thought 'WOW!' at the sheer size and impressiveness of it! I also remember thinking 'WOW! when the engines were being powered up for take off!! The whole aircraft felt as though it was alive. The one in your video was in service at that time, however I don't know if it was ever used for flights to/from the UK. If it was, maybe I flew on that very aircraft?!? Now that would be amazing :)

[@Robert_N]

Qantas used the B747-200/300 on their Kangaroo route. Sydney - Bangkok - London.