Schöne, nostalgisch anmutende Szenerie! Hervorragend eingefangen durch Zürichs Spotter-Gott !!Sandro!! Schmidt! Solch einen "Altvogel" sehen und hören zu dürfen verbreitet immer wieder gute Laune und weckt Erinnerungen an eine goldene Zeit der Fliegerei! Der Beweis des Könnens eines wahren Profis, welcher vielen Zuschauern große Freude bereiten wird!
Interesting aircraft. 47 feet shorter than its big brother but a much larger tail and of course a lot more range which is what every flight crew wants.
André Garcia not so sure, SPs were also used in Japan as a local shuttle between Tokyo/Osaka and the islands, where the requirements were high capacity on short range flight.
SP - Special Performance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747SP Japan did use some early 747-200 and 300 for a few domestic route, however the one that was designed specifically for the domestic market was the 747-400D which was "missing" the tail fuel tank and had smaller fuel tanks in other parts of the plane as well, since it was designed for Short Haul. :-) And yes the SP was used for short haul in Japan, but that was not the intention of the original design, PAM AM wanted a long haul plane as the 747-100 only had around 5k nm of range and the 747-SP could go almost to 7K nm.
DAM FLA Very sorry, and yes you are correct to question the context of my sentence. I was a Women's fashion buyer and I travelled out of Australia 26 weeks of the year for over 10 years. I was a Business passenger within in the early days of Business Class.
