Detailed tour through a Boeing 747-200 Classic!

[@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.

[@simonhusseyofficial]

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 :(

[@12yearssober]

@@willsco76 Not as Cargo carriers

[@qffan6319]

@@12yearssober 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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 :)

[@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"

[@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.

[@davidcole333]

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

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers David

[@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

[@JJay-m1x]

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.

[@worldofai-games1036]

The MAX did have two pitot tubes and AOA indicators. It was carried over from the NG. The MCAS though only based their computation from one of those instruments each since it made programming easy. Big mistake

[@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 :)

[@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.

[@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.

[@12yearssober]

Enormous and seemed to fly slow. Beautiful planes.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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😹

[@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!

[@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!

[@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 😀

[@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.

[@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.

[@captmulch1]

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

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@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.

[@fonzireyes]

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

[@PaulStewartAviation]

cheers - glad you enjoyed it

[@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.

[@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?

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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

[@Fifty8day]

Thank you Paul you explain complicated stuff plainly and interestingly

[@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.

[@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.

[@workhardtravelharder9313]

Such a fantastic tour Paul!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@Spectre-y5u]

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

[@barushpena2172]

Such an absolute beauty, thanks for the tour

[@browntr4]

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

[@HeKuTK0]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@rangerrick8220]

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

[@adrianbooth438]

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

[@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.

[@Crosshead1]

I didn’t realise Longreach had a Super Constellation, arguably the most beautiful aeroplane ever built. That alone would make the trip to Longreach worthwhile. I used to see the last of the Constellations at Brisbane airport in the early ‘60s, back when you stood just metres from the aircraft behind a wire fence and felt the blast from the props as they turned away; so memorable.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Nice! I’ve got a Super Connie vid coming up in 2 weeks.

[@bubblehead78]

The best-detailed tech tour of a large aircraft I've ever seen! Thanks for sharing.

[@OrionRox]

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

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

thanks for that, I finally got to realize my dream of flying on one of these beautiful gals, Coming back from south america on one of her final trips. I really loved the 747, she felt overly safe and everyone loved her.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Nice! I was meant to catch the 747 over to Santiago in March last year but alas covid... 😞 Hopefully I’ll be able to visit there properly soon

[@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.

[@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

[@zerogeewhiz]

This is a great vid - you packed in a ton of stuff I never knew about the 747 without it even being remotely boring. Nicely done.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

cheers Peter

[@zerogeewhiz]

@@PaulStewartAviation Anytime. Currently bingeing your Longreach vids.

[@tomzimnoski97]

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

[@thetwopointslow]

So cool to see the cabin and picture yourself back in time, perhaps landing at Kai Tak. Also love the bare metal look of the RB-211s. Thanks for the tour!

[@oismacca]

Thoroughly enjoyed this video. This channel deserves more views! Thank you!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@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.

[@simonrb5239]

Great tour thanks, lots of stuff I have never see before below deck. I don't recall seeing a 747 for the first time (living near London Heathrow they were a common sight) but I do remember my first flight vividly, when aged 9: a Qantas 747SP from Heathrow to Perth in July 1981 via what was then Bombay. I recall the beautiful livery with the orange stripe along the window line and the winged Kangaroo on the tail. I was beside myself with excitement, so much so that I kept an hourly diary of the flight when I managed to stay awake. It must have been VH-EAA, although my diary was not that detailed. A great aircraft.

[@janetbruce2430]

Excellent commentary and video footage on the Boeing 747 - 200B on parts of the plane never seen by a passenger. Fascinating extra detail about the equipment needed to keep a 747 safely in the air. Very informative and entertaining. Well done Paul

[@tangwilliams7342]

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

[@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.

[@lisahall9586]

Great video Paul. Another job well done

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers Lisa

[@lisahall9586]

@@PaulStewartAviation you're most welcome Paul.

[@zanespringall8990]

I visited this beauty back in 2018. Just going up and seeing it in the flesh is amazing. Another note on the projector - I believe the business class seats were retrofitted with IFE in the armrest in the late 90s. So at least you have a couple of options (still a far cry from modern systems). Can't wait to see your video on the Connie - she was still being restored when I was there

[@Peteski-0]

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

[@chrisrekstad3882]

I was at my condo's pool one day this past summer and I looked up and I saw a 747 right above me and I was so excited because I had never seen one before. I couldn't tell what airline it was for but I was so happy.

[@TMccrury]

Excellent video and I learned a few things I did not know about the 747. I had the opportunity to sit in the jump seat of a 747-SP en route from SYD-LAX in 1985. That was an amazing 20 minutes. It was interesting watching the Captain and First Officer discuss where we were and which waypoint they needed to put into the navigation system next. They had this map spread across the flight deck looking at it. Finally, the first officer inserted a waypoint he through we were approaching and sure enough in about 2 minutes we made a slight right turn.

[@peterhoebarth4234]

Refuel in XXX - Island, "southern cross route"

[@garrickphilp290]

I was lucky enough to spend many enthralling hours on the flight deck of an SAA 747 200 on a flight from Johannesburg to London many years ago. I was a passenger but my mate was the Captain. Many thanks for your interesting video.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it Garrick

[@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.

[@somewhereinoklahoma5574]

What a great tour! Thank you for creating this amazing video.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

You’re welcome!

[@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.

[@aorakiboydog]

Best tour I’ve seen, thanks.

[@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!

[@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.

[@kirmussaudio7578]

Great for Qantas to keep aviation history alive. Thanks for the great video!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Absolutely! You might enjoy my other video walking around 100 years of Qantas aviation too :)

[@kirmussaudio7578]

@@PaulStewartAviation No travel this past year. Longing for overseas travel. I was on the last 747 United Flight arriving Denver. Loved the old lady.... Happy New Year!

[@ericeinar]

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.

[@iftahtsabary]

thank you for the lovely tour!!!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers - another tour coming on Friday

[@adammurphy6845]

Awesome tour and video once again Paul. So fascinating to learn about all the external bits and bobs. Thanks!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers Adam

[@MrJimmy440]

Thank you for the tour Paul. It’s definitely on my 2023 bucket list of things to do when I make my next trip down under.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers Jim, glad you enjoyed it

[@tomjohnson5597]

Not why it took so long for you to end up in my recommendations, but I'm glad you did. Looking forward to working through your videos.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers Tom. Enjoy and more are coming :)

[@BentleyTypeR]

What a beautiful aircraft!! It is a dream of mine to fly in one, or even be the pilot of one!! Thank you for uploading this!!

[@photo_rohan]

Thanks for sharing this! Informative and it's always great to see the Roo Queen up close!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it Roham, cheers

[@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.

[@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.

[@johno9507]

3:20 Those three air conditioning outflow vents blow a lot of hot air, they came in handy on cold wet days as we'd often stand under them to warm up and dry off while waiting for pushback. 😀 7:08 The landing gear under the fuselage (body gear) can actually steer when the aircraft is making sharp turns. You can see the extra hydraulic cylinders on the torque links. 15:45 On the 747-200 the individual adjustable seat air nozzles (gaspers) blow fresh air conditioned air onto the passengers, but in the 747-400 they actually use recycled air sucked from the cabin ceiling, although it is filtered to help improve engine fuel economy.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Interesting about the change with recycling air. I assume newer aircraft recycle air to improve efficiency (albeit put it through filters too)

[@johno9507]

@@PaulStewartAviation Newer aircraft like the Boeing 787 have completely done away with using bleed air from the engines to supply air and to pressurise the cabin, instead using electrically driven compressors to supply cabin air & pressurisation. All in the name of increased fuel efficiency.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

@@johno9507 interesting

[@iain1969]

That was terrific Paul. Thank you.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Beardedexpat7614]

Fascinating tour. Thanks so much.

[@simplelifelost]

The aircraft is nicely set up for display and very accessible. Lovely quality video.

[@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.

[@joespittle1]

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

[@PaulStewartAviation]

haha

[@radhaerc]

What an experience! Could barely look away

[@thecornells7430]

Absolutely brilliant video, Paul, thanks. Excellent detail. Great, as ever. 👍

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Thanks for watching

[@stevebennett3012]

Greetings from Canada. Outstanding video! For sure this is the best tour I have seen of my favourite airplane. Love the details and explanation of what part does what. 10/10

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Cheers from downunder