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Title: what kinda 747 is this?
Post by: RAIDER14 on October 17, 2005, 11:19:41 PM

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=894161&WxsIERv=Obrvat%20747FC-86&Wm=0&WdsYXMg=Vena%20Nve&QtODMg=Unzohet%20%28-%20Shuyfohggry%29%20%28UNZ%20%2F%20RQQU%29&ERDLTkt=Treznal&ktODMp=Whyl%2012%2C%202005&BP=1&WNEb25u=Gbovnf%20Ebfr%20-%20Unzohet%20ErggbcF&xsIERvdWdsY=RC-VNQ&MgTUQtODMgKE=Svanyyl%20V%20tbg%20Nycun%20Qrygn%2C%20frra%20ba%20fubeg%20svany%20sbe%20ehajnl%2005.&YXMgTUQtODMgKERD=400&NEb25uZWxs=2005-08-05%2020%3A12%3A54&ODJ9dvCE=&O89Dcjdg=21758%2F371&static=yes&width=1024&height=695&sok=JURER%20%20%28nvepensg_trarevp%20%3D%20%27Obrvat%20747FC%27%29%20%20beqre%20ol%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=51&prev_id=894171&next_id=893627 (http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=894161&WxsIERv=Obrvat%20747FC-86&Wm=0&WdsYXMg=Vena%20Nve&QtODMg=Unzohet%20%28-%20Shuyfohggry%29%20%28UNZ%20%2F%20RQQU%29&ERDLTkt=Treznal&ktODMp=Whyl%2012%2C%202005&BP=1&WNEb25u=Gbovnf%20Ebfr%20-%20Unzohet%20ErggbcF&xsIERvdWdsY=RC-VNQ&MgTUQtODMgKE=Svanyyl%20V%20tbg%20Nycun%20Qrygn%2C%20frra%20ba%20fubeg%20svany%20sbe%20ehajnl%2005.&YXMgTUQtODMgKERD=400&NEb25uZWxs=2005-08-05%2020%3A12%3A54&ODJ9dvCE=&O89Dcjdg=21758%2F371&static=yes&width=1024&height=695&sok=JURER%20%20%28nvepensg_trarevp%20%3D%20%27Obrvat%20747FC%27%29%20%20beqre%20ol%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=51&prev_id=894171&next_id=893627)

Why is this 747 so short? :huh :O

Title: what kinda 747 is this?
Post by: Hangtime on October 17, 2005, 11:24:00 PM

half-ass carrier from a half bellybutton country with half bellybutton airports needs a half size airliner?

Title: what kinda 747 is this?
Post by: Holden McGroin on October 17, 2005, 11:25:17 PM

I think it's a 747-SP (special performance)

They made a smaller payload model for more fuel to stretch range.

Title: what kinda 747 is this?
Post by: 2bighorn on October 17, 2005, 11:25:30 PM

Also from AIRLINERS.NET

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Boeing developed the 747SP in the mid 1970s as a longer range, shortened 747, trading passenger seating for extra range. The 747SP is the only 747 model to feature a changed fuselage length compared with the 747-100.

The 747SP's fuselage is shortened by 14.35m (47ft 1in) compared to other 747 models, while the vertical tail was increased in height to compensate for the reduced moment arm with the shorter fuselage. Structurally the 747SP was lightened in some areas because of the significant reduction in gross weights. Overall though the 747SP retained 90% commonality of components with the 747-100 and 200. While shortening the 747's fuselage increased the fuel fraction and thus range, it also meant that seating capacity was reduced.


The SP suffix in 747SP stands for Special Performance, and points to the ultra long range abilities of this 747 variant that preceded the later 747-400 by 15 years. The 747SP's range is best illustrated by the spate of long range distance records it set in the mid 1970s. The most prominent of those was the delivery flight of a South African Airways SP, which over March 23/24 1976 flew nonstop with 50 passengers from Paine Field in Washington State to Cape Town, South Africa, a distance of 16,560km (8940nm). This world nonstop record for a commercial aircraft stood until 1989 when a Qantas 747-400 flew 17,945km (9688mn) nonstop from London to Sydney.

Title: what kinda 747 is this?
Post by: Wolfala on October 17, 2005, 11:28:20 PM

Always thought SP was along the lines of short noodle - but it just fits with short bus.

Title: that sp looks small
Post by: RAIDER14 on October 17, 2005, 11:28:43 PM

it looks smaller than a 767 and a T7:aok

Title: what kinda 747 is this?
Post by: Dinger on October 18, 2005, 03:48:35 AM

SP = "Shortened Plane".
Flew one of those SFO -- Honolulu -- Townsville when I was a kid.

Title: what kinda 747 is this?
Post by: beet1e on October 18, 2005, 04:52:52 AM

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Originally posted by Hangtime
half-ass carrier from a half bellybutton country with half bellybutton airports needs a half size airliner?

LOL! funny how so many people adopt that way of thinking - especially when talking about a place they don't particularly like or admire! :lol

The FACTS

• Iran is more than 2.3 times bigger than Texas, which means that...
• Iran is 96% the size of Alaska
• The size of a country has little to do with the size of aircraft its airlines operate, eg...
• Singapore is only one sixth of the size of Rhode Island at 247 sq miles, yet SIA's smallest airliner is the A340 in a fleet which also includes B747-400 and a number of B777 variants, and will be the first commercial fleet to include A380.
• The backbone of the world's largest airline, American Airlines, is a fleet of little tiddlers, or "half assed" airliners - the MD80.

:D

Title: what kinda 747 is this?
Post by: Hawklore on October 18, 2005, 09:59:04 AM

It's kinda cute..

Title: what kinda 747 is this?
Post by: Hangtime on October 18, 2005, 10:21:50 AM

Missing your empire, Beetle?

Title: what kinda 747 is this?
Post by: beet1e on October 18, 2005, 12:28:44 PM

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Originally posted by Hangtime
Missing your empire, Beetle?

Yeah, it upsets me as much as England having lost 5-0 to Australia in the 1920/21 Ashes Test series.
:rofl

Title: what kinda 747 is this?
Post by: pallero on October 18, 2005, 03:20:27 PM

Well, Finnland is so tiny country, that our airliners are size of this (http://koti.mbnet.fi/palli1/finnair.jpg).

Title: what kinda 747 is this?
Post by: Habu on October 18, 2005, 03:25:10 PM

That is an Asian 747.

American 747s have the same name but are much bigger in size.