Here Is Why Boeing Made A Special Version Of The 707 For Qantas 

I agree, my laptop doesn't have the best speakers and it's almost impossible to hear what the guy is saying because the music is much louder than his voice.

i can hear the words fine with no problem

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Kill the music ENTIRELY Why does everyone who posts a video think it has to be a music video. MTV died in the 1980s.

@Brad Williams Volume control is not really relevant. There's both music and narrative at the same time. In order to hear the voice clearly, you have to raise the volume so loud that the music (which sounds like crap anyway) is deafening. Music, if you use it in the background, should be no more than half the volume of the voice. Needless to say, I've placed this channel on my "do not watch" list.

That would have been awesome

Diego Visconti it’ll be fixed in future videos :)

Alright keep crying

@@novaerog9921 Easy to say when you're not hearing impaired.

Ok

It's almost like you want a refund 😂

I had to take my left earphone out to watch this...

Incase you dont like the music. Mute left.

I only hear it on the right...

@@alviyunitasari3737 Try to switch sides of your headphones😂

DarkenPalms Damn i dont have headphones i only have a iPad

RandoCrypto its actually a really good idea to have both the music and the commentary on the left and just the commentary on the right so you can choose between music and no music

Yeah same

@Henry Kidd **shows video** My dad: **joins to cry**

Sorry to say this, but they retired it already

Aight bet.

We?

@@BlammoGer yes theres more than 1 person operating this account

bayspotter and all of them missed the audio issue?

@@BlammoGer pretty much.

Have to agree with you. I was quite surprised at this omission. Only flew twice on one (across the Tasman and return) which will stay with me forever. Unfortunately, never on a Comet (which my Father helped build back in Hatfield. He was a sheet metal worker, and helped skin those massive wings! She, (Comet), was a masterpiece with lines that have never been eclipsed.

@@pierodavies9508 we were supposed to fly on the first Air New Zealand DC10 but missed the flight and ended up on the Qantas 707. The return flight was an Air New Zealand DC8, so it was the only time I ever flew on those jets. It's a shame that Boeing got to take advantage of the lessons learned from the Comet, but the UK lost sales.

@@theharper1 Never managed a DC10 and it would not have been a choice either, as I seem to remember a bit of doubt as to their ability to stay airborne. My memory may have been unkind to it? Yes, it was pretty rough on De Havilland. A close (very) 2nd in the good looks department for me, was the VC10. I had a great Airfix kit that I made up, which even had cabin lighting via the magic of optical plastic piping (not quite fibre optics), but in truth, essentially, it was over for the British Aircraft Industry by then. More's the pity.

@@pierodavies9508 the kit sounds great! I saw a VC10 in London at the RAF museum. I flew the DC10 from Fiji to New Caledonia, and the MD11 domestically in the USA. Much less claustrophobic than smaller jets with the high ceilings and large diameter fuselage. Another British aircraft I flew on was the HS748 in Fiji on that same trip as the DC10.

Qantas has never been called "QEA". Lol. My parents were frequent Qantas (first class) flyers. I still have a postcard from 1959 when my parents first flew the 707 around the world. There is one reference on the postcard to "Qantas Empire Airways", five references to "Qantas", and zero references to "QEA" (lol). Neither my parents, nor anyone I heard, ever referred to the airline as anything but Qantas.

Christopher Allen That looks to me more like an engine being ferried.

@@Ampersandrascott That is indeed the way to ferry an engine.

It’s called a fifth pod.

Christopher Allen B747s also had them

I was curious also. Glad to see replies naming it as a spare engine. Yes, this method to carry a spare engine was in fact developed using a Quantas 707-138. A special fairing was developed. The early 747s also had this option, as back then few if any aircraft could load this wide/tall engine as cargo, and it was a while before 747 freighters were operated. A very few other airliners had this capacity.

Not as expensive as Europe...

It's for carrying spare engines, some 747s also have this capability.

They do. It's not uncommon at all for manufacturers to customize models to specific airlines' needs. The DC-9-20, for example, was specifically made for SAS.

Qantas needed it because Australia is geographically a long way away from everywhere.

Boeing made the 747-400ER for Qantas so they could fly directly from Sydney to heathrow and Sydney to Los angeles. Though the london flight never took off. They made it happened once though.

@@latelammas100 Your correct with that type of relationship were you have a manufacturer designing and building custom airliners for you for decades and use that manufacturers 787-9 jet for research in an upcoming project only to choose another manufacturer is a slap in the face. I'm all about competition but this was wrong imo. But who cares they lost out on the 777 when it first came out and regretted it.

1chish yes, a spare pod for transporting spare engines

Today's engines are more efficient, high-bypass turbofans. Trying to apply them to an old aircraft design meant for smaller engines is what got Boeing in so much trouble with the 737 MAX. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BfNEOfEGe3I.htmlm44s

Cole Phelps... I don’t think qantas has ever suffered a hull loss despite a couple of repairable accidents involving a B747 and an A380

@@jashugg Qantas aircraft have had 14 fatal crashes, though none since 1951.

Don Coleman ... yes I meant no jet era hull losses!

Qantas is actually the 3rd oldest, Avianca is 2nd. Although due to KLM suspending its services during WW2, Qantas is the oldest continuously operational airline.

@@BadDriversOfTheIllawarra Interestingly enough Avianca have been around since 1919 (Qantas was formed in 1920) but only started trading under that name in 1940.

I found a website that explains this image at 0:33 it is a spare engine being transported.

Did it give up the ghost 😯

@@TransistorBased Slowed down with covid, just saw still not ready for flight to Aus

Brummiewellington It’s kinda of copy, but they are a lot of difference in design, the wings are heavily influenced by Soviet migs and the engine placements are very different

Brummiewellington yeah, but so many SOVIET aircraft were copies ,which suffered the SAMEproblems, Also they made a copy of the BRITISH TRIDENT, oh well, Cheers From NJ USA🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Dehaviland learned, too. Think about it.

Rafiah Aspagi but do you realize that virtually ALL planes before HAD SQUARE WINDOWS ? But those were NOT PRESSURISED , So it was then practical to o forth, with disasterious results ! Cheers From NJ 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

The Comets windows weren’t really any more square than pressurized airliners like the DC-6 or Convair 340 or even jets like the DC-8. The square windows were an easy way to explain to laymen the Comet’s flaws. The only aircraft where the direct cause of the crash was found was G-ALYP.. and the crack originated from a hole for the ADF antenna where rivet holes were punched instead of drilled which created micro cracks which eventually grew and united. G-ALYU underwent static testing and while the fuselage did fail adjacent to a window, the greater failure extends to a fuselage lap joint. The root cause was the use of aluminum only 0.032 inches thick. While this was sufficient to hold more than double the pressure, aluminum fatigue was not understood. Unlike steel aluminum fatigues with any cyclical force no matter how low. The thin skin simply fatigued too quickly.. and lost strength until it could no longer hold the pressurization forces. It failed at openings like any fuselage would because any opening makes it weaker. Subsequent airliners would use 0.125 inch skins with fail safes designed to stop tears and depressurize the aircraft before it exploded. Unfortunate this worked almost too well when Aloha 243 lost its entire roof. Subsequent comets used thicker skins. The oval windows were literal window dressing that would dominate British and European airliners for decades in comparison to the far more square windows on American airliners.

Calvin Nickel but all those were MUCH LATER,,& did NOT have the same pressure altitude .

You mean the 737 MAX?

@@skyscall yes.....

This post was made by the MAX gang

@@greateraviationgl91 Indeed!

@@wellingtonaviationchannel634 Imagine being to lazy to rework the landing gear height so you place the engines in a horrible position, and expect a computer to work it out, but instead of following safety regulations you throw on a single sensor and go "eh, good enough"

An aussie....

Britisch aß welle.

Don Coleman yes that WAS the first jet in service In USA, I was second officer in a B720, a BRITISH licence , Which I had to surrender way back, on a medical, GREAT AIRCRAFT ! Cheers From NJUSA🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸

@@flybyairplane3528 from a pilots POV, was there much difference between a 707 and a 720? I have my PPL (nil endorsements) and retiring medically will break my heart.

Don Coleman that’s exactly what happened to me, so an AVIATION life was no longer possible, so I turned arond went to trade school refrigeration & air conditioning, made a. Great living from it , managed to see the world, between scuba diving & travel, I have made it to 6 continents , only ANTARTICA left& at my age I do NOT SEE IT . Been retired since 2003, some countries had to hire an inturpritor , Usually, from newspaper, or magazine , but was really a blast, before TSA, I flew in the jump seat of. Many airlines, all that is DEAD NOW. Stay well keep the shiny side up ! Cheers FROM NJUSA🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I believe Qantas was the only customer for the 747-400ER

True though but why did British Airways 747-400 beats it's world record this year?

@@ZC_Offcials the crossing between London and New York? It was because of a big storm (can't remember the name of it) that helped push the plane along

Wow. Hopefully they can use BA 747-400 (largest 747-400 operator) any longer. I want to ride them.

@@ZC_Offcials they're due to be retired in the next few

I looked and SYD-LGW departing 30th April is 550 AUD or 487 CAD. Average weekly wage in Australia is 1567 AUD.

VH-EBA (now VH-XBA) was the 29th 707 off the production line and arrived in Sydney at the end of its delivery flight on July 2, 1959. It was the first jet airliner Boeing ever sold to a foreign airline. Considering that only 28 aircraft came off the production line before VH-EBA, that doesn't leave much room for any prior deliveries to Air France, Lufthansa, Sabena, and the others.