Simviation Forum - Jumbo history!

Jan 22^nd, 2006 at 11:56am

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The first jumbo jet carrying fare-paying passengers arrived at Heathrow airport on this day in 1970!!!
The then newly-constructed Boeing 747, Pan Am Flight Two, touched down at Heathrow at 1414GMT - seven hours late due to technical problems.
The jumbo had brought 324 passengers across the Atlantic from New York to London.
But the return journey to New York did not run so smoothly. Thirty-six of the 153 passengers transferred to other flights after a faulty compressed air bottle, used to blow open the plane's door in an emergency, meant take-off was delayed for four-and-a-half hours at Heathrow Grin

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #1 - Jan 22^nd, 2006 at 12:10pm

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Fantastic start!!!

Woodlouse2002 PITA and BAR!!!!!!!!&&&&Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the Act made in the first year of King George the First for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the King.&&&&Viva la revolution!

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Reply #2 - Jan 24^th, 2006 at 12:14am

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...a faulty compressed air bottle, used to blow open the plane's door in an emergency...

Whales, jumbo planes... it's wonder you guys kept Big Ben intact so long. What are you doing over there? Shocked

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Reply #3 - Jan 24^th, 2006 at 12:15pm

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What are you doing over there? Shocked

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Woodlouse2002 PITA and BAR!!!!!!!!&&&&Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the Act made in the first year of King George the First for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the King.&&&&Viva la revolution!

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