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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by akiselev on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:35AM (#33890972)
Wait until you see the Airbus Beluga [1] or Boeing Dreamlifter [2]!

I recommend going to the Davis-Monthan Air Force Boneyard in Tucson, AZ [3] and the nearby Pima Air & Space Museum [4] to see all the other big baddies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Beluga

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter

[3] https://www.airplaneboneyards.com/davis-monthan-afb-amarg-ai...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima_Air_%26_Space_Museum

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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by bowsamic on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @04:43AM (#33892467)
I live directly under the flight path for the Beluga's landing in the Hamburg airbus site, in a nice area north of the Elbe river.

One interesting thing about the Beluga: the pilots very often fail to land them and have to do multiple attempts! The Beluga landing is kind of loud, but it's nothing compared to the sound of the engines when they pull up after a failed attempt

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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by akiselev on Thursday December 08, 2022 @01:18AM (#33904810)
> One interesting thing about the Beluga: the pilots very often fail to land them and have to do multiple attempts!

They're likely just doing a fly by for a visual inspection of the runway since it's not a major public airport with full time air traffic control.

Most people are smart enough not to park something in the middle of a runway but might not have an intuitive grasp of how large a wingspan these things have.

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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by bowsamic on Thursday December 08, 2022 @01:39AM (#33904928)
Most of the time they land the first time and you can tell they’re coming in too hot when it happens. It could also be when there are container ships crossing the Elbe that they’re scared they might hit
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by acapybara on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:01AM (#33894397)
Go around
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by bowsamic on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:39AM (#33894784)
What?
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by mananaysiempre on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @10:21AM (#33895349)
A "go around" is what they call an aborted landing attempt like the ones you describe.
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by bowsamic on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @10:28AM (#33895433)
Oh, why didn't he say that?
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by andrewflnr on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:45AM (#33896600)
Some people like to just put their free word-associations into internet comments. Don't worry about it. :)
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by kkylin on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:40AM (#33891005)
Sadly it seems the Boneyard tours are no longer:

https://pimaair.org/plan-your-visit/available-tours/

(They stopped at the onset of the pandemic and AFAIK never resumed.)

The museum is still well worth visiting, and driving around you can see some of the planes parked in the Boneyard. Davis-Monthan also puts on a pretty good airshow every couple years.

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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by prottog on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:08PM (#33896959)
> (They stopped at the onset of the pandemic and AFAIK never resumed.)

From what I can tell, the pandemic gave many government functions and bureaus carte-blanche to stop working while collecting the same paychecks.

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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by kridsdale1 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:45AM (#33910000)
The same sorta happened to Paul Allen’s fighter plane museum in Washington. His sister manages his estate now, and has been ruthless at liquidating all the assets he collected for the public good. It’s infuriating.
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by Quequau on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:38AM (#33890993)
I look forward to seeing the replacement for the Antonov An-225, Mriya.
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by Anarch157a on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @05:53AM (#33892926)
I saw the Mriya landing in my city once. I was right bellow her when she was on the final approach, less than 50ft above my head. The experience was... humbling, to say the least.
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by kridsdale1 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:46AM (#33910017)
Apparently the airframe for the second plane is undamaged. So it may happen.
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by fuzzythinker on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @03:10AM (#33891890)
The BelugaXL resembles even more of a beluga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_BelugaXL
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by rjsw on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @08:18AM (#33893994)
I have been on two tours of the A380 final assembly building, the last time was with senior Airbus people so got basically the customer tour walking round the aircraft.

Have seen Belugas flying and on the ground at Toulouse.

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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by iamgopal on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:57AM (#33895012)
Just saw beluga at Mumbai airport, huge !!
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by anshumankmr on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @04:35AM (#33892411)
The Beluga really looks ugly.
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by LargoLasskhyfv on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:12AM (#33891555)
Beluga isn't that special, if you live where they come and go daily, sometimes several times. Rather annoying, because loud. At least louder than an A380, which is really big, but not as loud.
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by netsharc on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:56AM (#33891810)
One time I heard a different-sounding plane, I looked up, and it was one of them flying a different path than usual on their routine flights from Tolouse to Hamburg (Airbus sites), sadly it seems they haven't repeated that.
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by bowsamic on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @04:44AM (#33892468)
I live in Othmarschen and very often there are planes other than Beluga's landing at the site
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