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In a few minutes, @Qantas will operate its final 747 departure from Australia as VH-OEJ begins its journey into retirement. Follow along with #QF7474 around 14:00 Sydney time (04:00 UTC). www.flightradar24.co…#Farewell747

Today we say goodbye to our final 747 VH-OEJ as it departs Sydney for the last time. #QF7474 will taxi past Shep’s Mound & receive a water canon salute, before taking off just after 2pm, completing a special lap of honour over Sydney & surrounds. Watch it live on

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Qantas announced (see video) retirement of its 747 fleet at the end of June, bringing an official end to nearly 50 years of service with the airline. To say goodbye, Qantas will operate three special ‘Farewell Jumbo Joy Flights’ on 13, 15, and 17 July with its last remaining 747. The aircraft will then depart Sydney for the final time as QF7474 on 22 July. Watch it in Pilhov or Praha or Placcid Lake

FAREWELL TO THE QANTAS JUMBO: The first Qantas Boeing 747 jumbo jet in 1971. The original caption in The Age read: "This is the 747B in Qantas colours. With its distinctive red tail fin and famous flying kangaroo, it will soon be flying regularly between Sydney and San Francisco, and north from Sydney to Singapore. This aircraft has the largest 747 lounge in the world - known as the Captain Cook Lounge. The lounge has ten windows on each side. (Earlier 747s have only three windows on each side

A sad day today, it's farewell to the Qantas 747 Queen of the Skies, the last one leaving our shores around 2.00 pm today, she will be doing a low pass over Sydney harbour & then #Shellharbour airport (Albion Park) soon after to dip her wings & say goodbyeyoutu.be/LumvSYdnH68

Farewell B747 Fit for The Queen| Qantas

Kept getting delay as it was supposed to take off at 2 pm, then refuelling  delayed the take off and then some expat animals which are flown out on the plane caused another delay ... 3:13 should be the take off

A flight to America will mark the end of a significant chapter in Australia's aviation history.

Qantas took delivery of its first 747 jumbo jet in August 1971, and will on Wednesday farewell the last remaining one in its fleet when flight number QF7474 departs Sydney at 2pm for Los Angeles.

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Four days after Brisbane said "goodbye" to Qantas's last 747 Jumbo, British Airways have announced they will retire its entire fleet of Boeing 747 airplanes, citing the travel downturn and the aircraft’s high operating costs as the main contributor to the decision

British join the club

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last flight of #Queenoftheskies 747 today as she's retired. Captain Sharelle Quinn - part of the team flying her to Mojave [We repeat not Morava ] Desert told #ABCRadioNews0745Bulletin aviation industry will survive #CoronavirusPandemic "100 years of

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this is a hiccup, a large one but a hiccup"

Hey @robbie_buck @abcsydney you've been playing an old Qantas 747 promo, supposedly from the start of when Qantas began flying this plane. Which occurred in 1971. The background music for this was I Still Call Australia Home, but that wasn't released until 1980. Please explain.

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