ordpia From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 140 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 13909 times:
Looks like a toddler scribbling 747 over the nation
BMI727 From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 14356 posts, RR: 26 Reply 2, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 13911 times:
747? Or more specifically, 747 as it would be written by a first grader or Muhammad Ali, but still, nice effort.
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KPDX From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 2526 posts, RR: 3 Reply 5, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 13707 times:
Not the greatest penmanship but with the time it takes, I'll give them props for trying.
What kind of test flight is this? Some type of endurance test?
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runner13 From United States of America, joined Jun 2010, 227 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 13615 times:
No it's not a glitch look at the routing. I'm sure it was an endurance test. If you look at the foggy time it's 17 hours. Pretty creative flight planning if you ask me.
B727LVR From United States of America, joined Jul 2008, 628 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 13535 times:
Quoting KPDX (Reply 5): What kind of test flight is this? Some type of endurance test?
That would be my guess, flightaware, shows the duration to be 17hrs, pretty impressive actually, even though it was empty more than likely.
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flybaurlax From United States of America, joined Oct 2008, 634 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 13505 times:
Quoting KPDX (Reply 5): What kind of test flight is this? Some type of endurance test?
According to a friend of mine who is an engineer at Boeing, it is a function and reliability test. This is the last phase of flight testing before certification.
QANTAS747-438 From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 1804 posts, RR: 2 Reply 9, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 13387 times:
Very cool! 8,119mi flown... domestically!
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Longhornmaniac From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 3094 posts, RR: 48 Reply 11, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 13110 times:
Check out the one from the first. That looks like a long, cold flight!
blueflyer From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 3129 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 12975 times:
Quoting garpd (Reply 4):
I wonder if that is a Flightaware glitch or if they actually flew that!?
Not a flightaware glitch. Gulfstream does something similar with some of their long-distance test flights, following a path that loosely resembles G-V.
ORDBOSEWR From United States of America, joined Jun 2011, 294 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 12851 times:
It is not a glitch, it was planned.
I guess the idea what to do when you have to fly 17hrs over the US!
csturdiv From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 1351 posts, RR: 3 Reply 14, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 12742 times:
Quoting Longhornmaniac (Reply 11): Check out the one from the first. That looks like a long, cold flight!
Add in a hairpin turn, and it could be a nice race track that they flew.
Mir From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 19719 posts, RR: 56 Reply 15, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 12694 times:
Quoting blueflyer (Reply 12): Gulfstream does something similar with some of their long-distance test flights, following a path that loosely resembles G-V.
Gunsontheroof From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 3462 posts, RR: 11 Reply 16, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 12665 times:
Quoting runner13 (Thread starter): Take a closer look at the flightpath, notice anything interesting?
MSPNWA From United States of America, joined Apr 2009, 1574 posts, RR: 4 Reply 17, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 12638 times:
I was following this flight yesterday and actually saw the plane fly near me. It didn't dawn on me that they were spelling something!
Looks like they had to cut the second "7" a little short. The original plan had it going all the way back to DLH again. Still, that's pretty a neat test flight.
KevinPDX From United States of America, joined Apr 2010, 24 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 12204 times:
jklasser17 From United States of America, joined Jul 2011, 5 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 12203 times:
If they added a -8, would they beat the 777LR's length of time in the air?
fpetrutiu From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 755 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 12010 times:
777ord From United States of America, joined May 2010, 355 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 11109 times:
Who here thinks part of that G5 and 747 was done purely for flightaware.com fanatics? lol
adipasqu From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 236 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 11111 times:
Didn't Cessna do something similar on a test flight whereby they made their logo in the flight track and it was basically perfect? I can't seem to find that track, unfortunately.
B727LVR From United States of America, joined Jul 2008, 628 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 10928 times:
I have a question.... How hard is it to get such a complex flight plan aproved inside a busy airspace, or is it not really a big deal?
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25 adipasqu: They did the whole thing at 43,000 FT, which would keep them out of most everyones way, I would think.
26 BMI727: The Citation X can get up above pretty much everything not owned by the military. Most likely, but that is low for a Citation X which can make it up
27 B727LVR: True for Cessna, but what about Boeing at 350?
28 UALWN: While I'll acknowledge that this is funny, it is also disrespectful to a living legend. Yes, Mr. Ali has Parkinson's disease, but so does Michael J.
29 goblin211: How ironic. I think it was on purpose and probably should make the 4 into an 8 by going down the midwest.
30 DLX737200: I was tracking this flight last night and spotted her passing Omaha around sunset:
31 worldliner: I saw this flight almost half way through and I wondered why they didn't just fly internationally 17 hours? Is there logic to it or ??
32 DFWRamper: Looking at the Flightaware track log -- looks like the last hour of the flight was at 42,100 feet or so. That's bound to be the service ceiling I woul
33 Aesma: Well, being back home after the flight is nice. And if you're going back home anyway, no need to go over water with a test plane.
35 simpilot459: Not sure why, but flight aware went into the "Estimated" thing for a while. when it popped back on radar, it was back on the leg of the 4, so I think
36 txkf2010: All very intentional and very cool! 748 Cessna (C750) G-V
37 tdscanuck: In terms of distance, probably, but I don't think a 747-8F can hold that much gas. There is logic to it. As soon as you go international you need ove
38 AirlineCritic: The guys at Gulfstream seem to have better handwriting than those at Boeing... Seriously though, this is cool!
39 jcf5002: What a wasted opportunity to draw the world's biggest "knob" across the USA...
44 mike96: Here's a video made by Boeing of the historic flight! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXwlwW_i-AA&feature=feedu
45 tonymctigue: I love the idea. Nice publicity stunt the let everyone know that the B747 hasn't gone away you know. She went to sleep there for a while but is now ba
46 Viscount724: Thursday's NBC Nightly News (broadcast live on CNBC in Europe at 12:30 AM) had a brief segment on the 748-8's flight, focusing on the routing making a
47 tdscanuck: Pawed through flightaware.com and didn't find it...but it may have been more than 4 months ago. Basically, they flew a full circle (looked like they
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