The Queen of the Skies has always been my favorite jet, she is a real beauty! Sad to see land one final time- she still had many more decades of flight life in her.
@bryanmg81643 жыл бұрын
She really is a beauty, and that was a masterful landing on such a short runway.
@plutusplutus7 жыл бұрын
This brought a tear to my eye! How proud the captain and crew must have felt to have been a part of such an historic delivery and to witness such a welcome home! How sad that such a beautiful specimen of aviation and one so aesthetically unmatched should be retired from the skies. The decommissioning of the 747 - the Queen of the Skies - should go down as one of history's most criminal acts!
@4trainfan9094 жыл бұрын
It still flies at HARS
@L8trm8AT3 жыл бұрын
@@4trainfan909 no It dont
@dapto2343 жыл бұрын
@@4trainfan909 It wont fly again anywhere.all 4 engines for a start are now over the cycle hours ..so its not going anywhere.
@godfearingheathen3 жыл бұрын
@@dapto234 Only one. Three of them will be removed and put back into service to be replaced with three retired engines.
@boiragirules Жыл бұрын
100%
@petercasserly41267 жыл бұрын
Screaming, bawling kids. Might as well have been on the flight, for that truly authentic touch.
@rileymannion53013 жыл бұрын
They're just sad to see the ol queen get retired
@aviationin4k2583 жыл бұрын
@@rileymannion5301 lol true
@Dokker623 жыл бұрын
I always wonder why people take their kids to events like this. It's nervwrecking for both sides and the youngsters give a shit on what's happening.
@NYRangers5203 жыл бұрын
- the boring in-flight movie!!😃😄😁✈️🎞️🍿
@Dachrinnensaeufer7 жыл бұрын
My very first flight was QF6, Frankfurt - Sydney, January 12th 1993. And it was a brand new 747-400. Can't believe these beauties are retiring... :-(
@torrarosa70645 жыл бұрын
The most iconic and beautiful airplane on the planet.. There will never be another one like this.. Compare that to A380.. the ugliest.. I leave it there.....
@AUmarcus5 жыл бұрын
It also still holds the world record for the longest non stop flight....London to Sydney on one tank.
@koalaforresttankeryschool63312 жыл бұрын
@@AUmarcus Right about that
@koalaforresttankeryschool63312 жыл бұрын
And rip tyres and how did it Lan here
@AussieBall-Animations28 ай бұрын
The 747 and A380 are my 2 favourite planes lol
@theRudiolfock9 жыл бұрын
this plane saw many people and miles of our planet it's a good thank to preserve it for our kids understand how were planes...before the electric new generation who come...A350,787 and others...thank you for sharing.
@deanadams475 Жыл бұрын
Me and my family flew on that plane from England to visit our Australian family in 1992, still and will always be my favourite plane. Beautiful
@richartrod3 жыл бұрын
Wow! It's a miracle that a 747 could safely land on such a ridiculously short runway for a plane of its size! It looks like it made a hard belly flop landing and pulled hard on the brakes and wing flaps to stop!
@freddylee30133 жыл бұрын
I recognise VH-OJA. I had a plane model of that one I bought from in flight from Hong Kong to Sydney flight. Flight attendant on that flight was nice enough to ask permission for pilots to allow me to have a look at their cockpit. This is exactly the aircraft I've sat in flying from HK-SYD
@mariomar55193 жыл бұрын
Le chef d'oeuvres de l'aviation le 747
@vijgai37 жыл бұрын
Magnificent aircraft. Looks way better than the A380
@francollins40363 жыл бұрын
I flew 747 to New York from London - I did not even know I was in it from take off to landing such was the skill of the crew.
@V8CHRGD8 жыл бұрын
Beautiful bird, sad to see her retired. At least she wont be turned into scrap though.
@soccermum64168 жыл бұрын
I went on one yesterday. I was so suprised.
@kylieryan75107 жыл бұрын
V8CHRGD I think it's now a museums now and you can go every were in there
@milz_46024 жыл бұрын
Code Broken Arm yeah it is
@davidhugill46685 жыл бұрын
I've done the detailed tour if this (now static display) aircraft. Not cheap but very worthwhile. It's for only 3 or 4 people at a time (book ahead!). An ex-Qantas engineer walks you around the aircraft, describing all sorts of arcane details; included climbing the ladder on the nose gear into the electronics bay (from where you can access the cabin itself; not that we did that); go into the cargo bays. Qantas has left many 100's of 1000's of $'s of avionics kit, still in operational order, in the electronics bay. An ex-Qantas flight attendant takes you through the cabin, showing the bits that passengers don't see (or don't see much of), including the crew rest area, which also houses the "black" box. Finally, an ex-Qantas pilot demonstrates the cockpit, each of us taking turns in the left seat. The cockpit is powered up, from a ground power unit, and using those avionics boxes I mentioned. We were able to use the flight director console, heading and altitude settings and also fire up the forward weather radar (nice graphics of the Illawarra escarpment - pretty hard clouds those!). 3 of the 4 engines are absent - still worth good money, so they have been reused and the nacelles weighed down with concrete to level the aircraft again. A really worthwhile tour for aircraft geeks. For a lesser amount, they do wing walks most (all?) weekends.
@flygwada9719 жыл бұрын
What a great filming, impressing to see her landing on such a short distance.Thanks for sharing.
@melissaallen40209 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video and great to see her backed into her final resting place.
@zannaduresident49342 жыл бұрын
The 747 at Albian Park was the first one to fly none stop from heathrow England, to Sydney. It had full ranks and was tugged out to the runway Engines Off and Start up then go. It landed at Sydney with about 30 mins of fual remaining. It holds the record for first none stop flight Half Way around the World.
@Daddy-R4 жыл бұрын
9 hate how planes come to such a quick stop like use more runway
@dennishatzidimitriou78993 жыл бұрын
What a majestic Aeroplane never to be seen in flight again so sad the safest plane ever built so sad
@jackdoe38893 жыл бұрын
Amazing in many ways for sure but hardly the safest ever built.
@patrickmollohan30823 жыл бұрын
Many are still flying continuously as freighters,😁
@lutherlewis67923 жыл бұрын
Now that is a pilot! Landing on a postage stamp.
@illawarransw5949 жыл бұрын
She is now resting at the Illawarra Regional Airport Museum, Albion Park. She is in very good hands with HARS historical aircraft restoration society.
@gosst609 жыл бұрын
Illawarra Nsw I was a member of H.A.R.S for 9 yrs there president Bob De-la Hunty is am awesome man, congrats to all at H.A.R.S.. for pull this off, i`de like to see the face on Ms Sonia McKay`s face now after she tried stopping the whole H.A.R.S thing from even starting...... IDIOT.............. Kev Watson... ex H.A.R.S and proud.......!!!!
@HBWarren12 жыл бұрын
Went to the air show there in 2019…toured the plane…lovely place for it to be showcased!
@PInk77W13 жыл бұрын
I rode my bicycle across Aussie Wollongong is one of the prettiest places I have ever seen
@hotelgulf Жыл бұрын
Not even the mighty 747 can drown out the sound of screaming crying kids.😮
@BlueStar1679 жыл бұрын
fantastic view! thanks for filming the historical moment! :)
@aimiekhan77373 жыл бұрын
A plane which was favourite in EAST..WEST..NORTH AND SOUTH 😓 Will miss the pleasure of flying in it
@jessicanolde77395 жыл бұрын
747-400 FOREVER💖🛫😍⭐️
@lowerthenthelowestdeck3 жыл бұрын
It’s a short runway at Wollongong, I’m surprised they did this and could do a full power take off !! Good job Qantas
@godfearingheathen3 жыл бұрын
Took a lot of planning to land a jumbo here. This jumbo could never take off again from here.
@tomsamuelson85123 жыл бұрын
@@godfearingheathen A lightly loaded 747 can take off in under 4,000 ft....seen it many times.
@godfearingheathen3 жыл бұрын
@@tomsamuelson8512 Theoretically yes but the pavement at WOL is only suitable for aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight not exceeding 25 tonnes.
@tomsamuelson85123 жыл бұрын
@@godfearingheathen Didn't they fly a Connie out of this airport for several years? It weighs over 50 tons. The 747 has a LOT more tires to spread the weight around.....
@andgate20002 жыл бұрын
And it remains there to this day...at the museum.
@noelio677 жыл бұрын
*The Queen of the Skies.......brilliant footage.....puts the hairs on my neck in upright position, it's bullshit how airlines are turning their backs now....even with the B747-8........hopefully Boeing in Seattle will make it really fuel efficient for the future....and bring back the Queen in all her glory, even eclipsing her heyday*
@juliansutherland63643 жыл бұрын
American ingenuity!
@Skipbo0003 жыл бұрын
yeah from back in the day..... but like everything else in america, boeing will be owned by the chinese before the decade is out. why are you guys letting your country go to shit? i thought the u.s. was run "by the people."
@xihuantiyu7 ай бұрын
It was such a bitter and sweet feeling. Boeing-747 is a great airplane. It is sad to see it gradually disappear from airport. But I am happy to see this big bird to live a retirement village in Wollongong instead of plane graveyard in American desert.
@MrPLC9993 жыл бұрын
VH-OJA is permanently retired and on display at the HARS museum at Albion Park, NSW, Australia
@karenmacintosh71383 жыл бұрын
I've seen it!
@TARS..7 жыл бұрын
Landed at 7:47 truly majestic
@slender_04346 жыл бұрын
And it landed at 7:47 AM in real life.
@tarkineWild5 жыл бұрын
Surprisingly the crickets enjoyed it and the only thing to ever happen in Wollongong
@mikezinn72125 жыл бұрын
tarkineWild - certainly the biggest!
@acd12023 жыл бұрын
Don't know about the only exciting thing to happen at Wollongong, wasn't there Korean guy giving joy rides in an unregistered Mig out of Wollongong in the 90s, until he got caught.
@snuggles033 жыл бұрын
Biggest thing to hit that town in all of history
@emma13rulz9 жыл бұрын
Wow. ..This is awesome. ...I was there today and I have to say...out of most of the videos I have seen of this ....This is probably the best one yet. ....
@jasonfrancis87114 жыл бұрын
5:45 the last sound she will make.
@cornucopiahouse42043 жыл бұрын
Yeah, emotional, that sound she makes when the engines are turned off...
@df4463 жыл бұрын
The engines will run again.
@torrnado81316 жыл бұрын
Fantastic big plane!
@gordonc83353 жыл бұрын
Yep No ILS , reverse thrust on only 2 inboard engines(due to runway width)
@PeterFruits-hm8rc2 ай бұрын
I was the lead framie on this aircraft's cabin re-fit in 1998
@samskeeter14 жыл бұрын
I think they might have taken a few 747's out of mothballs due to Corvid 19. There were 2 Lufthansa ones side by side at Christchurch airport the other day, no doubt here to take Germans home. To see two side by side at that little airport let alone Lufthansa ones who never have come there before must have been a great sight.
@jeemotion19625 жыл бұрын
I once flew with her from Frankfurt to Singapur. Great bird!
@andylam739 жыл бұрын
sad to see this beautiful queen of the sky got retired one after another. she has been with me since kid. real sad.
@joelfleming96697 жыл бұрын
Andy Lam a
@aviationvideos7 жыл бұрын
Extremely nice view of the Qantas 747 on final arrival. Great to see the large crowd in the background too. I feel lucky to have caught one of their 747's at London Stansted Airprot recently on a charter flight. Sad to see them disappearing but great to preserve through video. Enjoyed watching this.
@petxx81553 жыл бұрын
Pure MAJESTY!!...BEAUTIFUL, ELEGANT, SEXY & CUTE at d same time!!👌SHE OWNED d skies...She OWNED OUR HEARTS...She OWNED D ENTHUSIASM of ATC & RUNWAYS Operators...plus...d LOVING CURIOSITY of our KIDS!!😨😨WELL DONE "MA'LADY"...PERFECTLY WELL DONE!!👌👏👏👏👍👍💖💓
@Sky360Phoenix8 жыл бұрын
I thought for a minute that John Travolta had popped his head out to wave to everybody. lol
@aussieboi829 жыл бұрын
Just brilliant. A great video of a great airline and superb aircraft.
@steve-marsh2 жыл бұрын
This video will become more profound with each passing year
@MrMFHORN3 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe this was six years ago
@radhaaubeeluck96913 жыл бұрын
wounderfull
@miloguy9 жыл бұрын
Great laning ! wonder if he pressed Shift + F1 to shut the engines down !
@miloguy9 жыл бұрын
who knows!!
@dingle8498 жыл бұрын
lol FSX
@kellytime307 жыл бұрын
jajaja. That´s in fsx. by the way, I press Shift+k
@sickgr33k9 жыл бұрын
thats acrually pretty impressive for something that big to land on such a short runway.... the bloody engines are hovering over the grass the wings are so wide lol
@sickgr33k8 жыл бұрын
lol yeh they definetly would have done everything possible to make the aircraft as light and stop as fast as possible, we had a old 737 transported from perth to jandakot to be decomissioned pretty impressive seeing a 737 land on a 900m runway haha
@OMGITSAPPLEZ7 жыл бұрын
i've spoken to one of the pilots who flew this 747 (not on this flight) he said that they deflated the tyres and loaded 20 tonnes of fuel and it actually stopped very quickly as is was quite light.
@AEMoreira815 жыл бұрын
Also, at least a dozen planes had to be relocated at HARS just to fit this 747 in.
@UraFlight9 жыл бұрын
Awesome footage from this point
@redhen3345 жыл бұрын
Hopefully qantas saves their last 747 that gets retired. It would be great to see 2 747-400s from qantas preserved.
@df4463 жыл бұрын
Waste of money.
@GTRMO349 жыл бұрын
Super filming!
@ksmashgamer57484 жыл бұрын
I assume the fire trucks / vehicles were there to make sure tires weren’t burning up due to that short landing?
@aussiefirie4 жыл бұрын
They were there in case itcrashed due to the shortness of the runway.
@cameroncalvi-freeman97468 жыл бұрын
What a beauty, it will be so sad to see her go
@razony3 жыл бұрын
Kind of remember when these 747's first took flight in the early 70's. Good Times! She looks to big to fit on that runway.
@peminatgame27488 жыл бұрын
wow see... so many people... awesome...
@baskecior16398 жыл бұрын
Amazing. Love it!
@automnsunflowers98023 жыл бұрын
This plane missed me. That is so sad.
@gearsau9 жыл бұрын
Good video. Really captured the whole event. Well done :-)
@andgate20004 жыл бұрын
Everything was moved and everyone for a mile after the end threshold was evacuated..and all services on ready. They did have doubts. The guys practiced on the sim for weeks.
@krxbbyz36194 жыл бұрын
andgate2000 what
@df4463 жыл бұрын
I doubt the practiced for weeks.
@justathought59846 жыл бұрын
Majestic. Sad to see the bird retire. Not cool to have her hitched to the tug. Let her go out on her own wheels.
@CaptainStevenMarkovich6 жыл бұрын
Super video. Great crowd. Subscribed
@JSolisHD3 жыл бұрын
Sad day. Seeing it being pushbacked on the runway, never to turn its engines ON ever again... was a really sad day.
@dapto2343 жыл бұрын
Not quite part of the deal with Qantas was they wanted at least 3 of the engines back because they still had good hours left on them at the time of arrival into HARS.So it stood at HARS at one stage with only 2 engines attached.....now all 4 engines are back on the aircraft having used up the hours on them.I actually have a photo of the port side (left) side of the aircraft showing the #2 engine removed.
@andgate20004 жыл бұрын
Landing wasn’t the problem....taxing and parking was!
@eightmountain98003 жыл бұрын
First plane I boarded to LA, smooth ride.
@BadenCityFire9 жыл бұрын
no words needed ! wooooow !
@fredharte86775 жыл бұрын
How eloquent! A dog couldn't have barked it better.
@mistagrove43493 жыл бұрын
Why does Air Force One get to stay and the rest of the 747 fleet get decommissioned
@bassbuster94979 жыл бұрын
Great Video, thanks for sharing this.
@NCrist1003 жыл бұрын
I’ve never been on a 747. But while waiting for my Airbus A321 from Bucharest to Heathrow, had full view of 747s on take off runs. So much noise and little speed.
@NCrist1003 жыл бұрын
Mind you, the 747 is a big plane and it’s size makes it seem slow. I saw many Airbus A321s make a lot of noise and seem to be slow. When I was in the A321s, the acceleration was great, was pushed back in my seat.
@nehamaty3 жыл бұрын
All celebrating the arrival of the Queen of the Skies.
@jeanmacagnan63673 жыл бұрын
747.400 aeroporto marechal Rondon internacional Brasil Mato Grosso várzea grande 🛬🛬✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇧🇷👏
@maticardoso50093 жыл бұрын
Simplemente hermoso
@shivdevuppal.57133 жыл бұрын
There is no BACK MIRROR in the Aeroplane ?
@SteenPedersen9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video. Where will it be placed? The airport doesn't seem big enough to host a 744 without blocking taxiways?
@Blake-de2nf9 жыл бұрын
Number one it's a 747. Number two, they're keeping it at the museum on static display.
@gearsau9 жыл бұрын
Blake Henderson Actually, they do call them B744 ( B747-400 series )
@SteenPedersen9 жыл бұрын
Blake Henderson On Google Earth the airport doesn't seem big enough? Where is the museum? At the airport? 744 is just an abbreviation for 747-400 :-)
@Blake-de2nf9 жыл бұрын
The museum is at the airport, its called the H.A.R.S (historical aircraft restoration society), they had to move over ten planes to fit it in.
@gosst609 жыл бұрын
+Steen Pedersen Shes standing on the turnaround apron that's no longer used by Qantas for their regional flights to Melbourne , she is not blocking any taxi ways what so ever,, and the correct spec for her is a B747-438, the 38 is what Boeing assign as a code to each airline......38 is Qantas code....im an ex member of HARS of over 9 yrs.........thanks, K W.
@donizetesilva10883 жыл бұрын
Boa. Noite Donizete Bragança Paulista sp Brasil
@raptor16724 жыл бұрын
I'm watching this at 747 am! lol
@zebski816 жыл бұрын
Longreach maybe?
@johnpro28476 жыл бұрын
Must try it on my microsoft simulator ....
@andrewskinner85606 жыл бұрын
Its a plane that has gone very far over the years. Its retirement for the old, in with the new.
@acammaruko70839 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@Mark_Ocain3 жыл бұрын
Must have come in on fairly dry tanks. That was one hell of a short field landing !!!
@donaldalbano64845 жыл бұрын
i'd have to check my records but i think i flew this 747 from lax to sydney (or vice versa); a longreach.
@AUmarcus5 жыл бұрын
All QF 744's had the "Longreach" moniker....they are distinguished by their other name....in this case "City of Canberra"....VH-OJA.
@petersabolewsky49832 ай бұрын
That landing look so easy but took years of practice.
@TweedSuit2 жыл бұрын
It can never leave there.
@robertburdick46803 жыл бұрын
So sad to hear those engines wind down.
@andgate20002 жыл бұрын
Qantas still pinches parts every now and then.
@ingridfelicio69976 жыл бұрын
Olá,gostaria de saber o que aconteceu com este avião. Pois não entendo o idioma inglês. Desde já agradeço. Abraços.
@NoTaboos6 жыл бұрын
Hardly any fuel & no passengers or cargo; light as a feather. Very easy landing.
@richardshiggins7044 жыл бұрын
Such majesty !
@df4463 жыл бұрын
Not the shortest runway a 747 has landed on.
@finleyfendt37503 жыл бұрын
How short is it ?
@stefanol92723 жыл бұрын
I seen many 747 whats special about this ? Just asking
@janetmitchell99803 жыл бұрын
It was the plane’s final flight. Qantas donated it to the museum at the airport. That is a regional airport with a short, narrow runway. Never before, never again will a 747 land there.
@harvesthawk57723 жыл бұрын
Uh that is not landing on a "postage stamp", landing on a postage stamp would be an aircraft carrier.