I have had the pleasure of flying on Qantas a 747-400 several times. Singapore to London return 5 times and Sydney to San Francisco return once. Theres nothing quite like flying on a 747. One time out of London at the end of a meal, and a nice glass of wine I was listening to Here Comes Te Sun by The Beatles on my brand new iPod and thinking it doesn't get any better than this. The Boeing 747 has always been a much loved aeroplane, and now very much missed. Long live the Queen.
I’ve taken SFO-SYD multiple times, it really is an amazing flight onboard a 747. Sadly though Qantas only flys LAX and DFW to SYD, with LAX being on the A380 and DFW on the 787-9.
I remember as a kid flying on OJA doing the island hopper operating as QF081 in 1995. The route was SYD-NAN-HNL-LAX. The gate in Sydney we departed from had no view of the apron so I was unable to see the rego. There was a delay in loading and we were held back by 40mins or so on the tarmac. The captain came over the PA and apologised for the delay and mentioned that he got permission from the company to “make it up in the air”. In amongst the announcement he made us aware of the significance of OJA and it was forever cemented in my memory. He was also true to his word as we pulled into Nadi dead on time for an evening arrival. That’s when my father turned to me and said “it doesnt matter if we’re departing late, as long as we get to where we are going on time”.
We took our then young family to see and board the 747 at the Longreach Museum. It is a beautiful aircraft of a bygone time. The other attractions at the museum were also spell binding!. I will most certainly be doing a tour of the HARS museum before I cark it! Thank you for this and the other Australian aviation videos you publish on RU-vid, it is much appreciated.
I flew on the 747-400 4 times. Two back and forth trips from LAX-SYD return. It was the first time I had flown on a 747 and seated in the Upper Deck was quite the experience!
I've toured the 747 at HARS and it was great to see some aspects of the plane that you normally wouldn't see. There's a bunch of other aircraft at HARS worth seeing, many in flying condition like "Connie" the Super Constellation. By the way you can say it as "hars" without spelling it. You showed clips of the Founders Museum in Longreach. The Qantas 747 was called Longreach not just for range but the town where Qantas began. My last flight before the pandemic was on a Qantas 747-400 from Tokyo to Sydney.
Hi, Never really flown on the B747-400, but I do remember one of Qantas B747 that visited Seychelles that is where I live back in 2013, that aircraft was VH-OEB, I was still working for our national airline Air Seychelles when it landed and I also saw it take off for Sydney Australia later on that year.
Missing from the HARS collection are the domestic jets such as the DC-9 and 727, it would be great to see these examples in either Ansett & TAA colours
I think I have flown on every 747 a/c Qantas owned but can't remember all the registration. I was lucky enough to spend over 23 years working for them. mostly as a flight attendant and been paid to do so,
Hats off to Qantas for Keeping lovely jumbo -400 , unlike BA Who Retired and Scraped All 747s ,And Respect to Lufthansa and Korean air and Air China who Still Fly these Aircrafts,Specially LH who Operating 400 variants.
I was lucky enough to fly the 747-400 2 times in 2017 and 2018. YSSY-KSFO and KLAX-YBBN. Unfortunately I got quite airsick both times and could not really enjoy the 747 too much!
The egines were removed by Qantas after the flight to HARS. Also some instrumentation, hydraulics, pumps etc were taken back to Qantas base in Sydney to be used as spares. Basically, anything that was of value was removed and the static airframe dummied up to look complete.
It’s the HISTORIC aircraft restoration…. Not historical I believe. Also, it’s pronounced ILLA WORRA not ILLA WAHRAH. Travolta’s 707 is a -138B not a -138. Also, it wasn’t really built especially for Qantas, it was part of a USAF order that was cut short by the USAF and Qantas bought the slots. The KC-135 was shorter so it was called a 100 series. Pan American had 77-121 but they were slightly longer because they were the standard 707-100. The Qantas aircraft suited Qantas because the 10 foot shorter fuselage helped with departures from hot airfields like Nadi, Fiji to Honolulu. What’s with the pics of Longreach museum and VH-EBQ? And Boeing pics of RA001? Nothing to do with VH-OJA. Viewers might think HARS (they call themselves “HAARZ” BTW they don’t spell out the letters) have RA001 as an exhibit.
