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Boeing 747-400

Aerial Firefighting with Fire Fighting Airplanes.

17/06/202624/08/2020 by peter.doornbos@outlook.com
Fire Fighting DC9

With bushfires becoming more ferocious and harder to fight from the ground, organisations are turning more and more towards larger firefighting airplanes.

Categories BAe 146, Boeing 747, DC-10, Modernairliner Post Tags aerial firefighting, BAe-146, Boeing 747-400, DC-10, firefighting aircraft, Global Supertanker, Queen of the Skies, VLAT Leave a comment

Boeing 747 8, are we falling out of love?

19/06/202606/09/2015 by peter.doornbos@outlook.com
Boeing 747-8F N5017Q_in flight.

Our love affair with the Boeing 747 goes back 4 decades to those heady days of aviation when fuel was cheap and Juan Trippe and the boys at Pan Am asked Boeing to build them a much bigger airplane.

Categories Airbus A380, Boeing 747 Tags 747, A380, Airbus, Airbus A380, Boeing, Boeing 747, Boeing 747-400, Boeing 747-8, Boeing 747-8I, Jumbo, Jumbo Jet Leave a comment

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