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The mighty 747 : Australia's queen of the skies / Jim Eames.

The mighty 747 : Australia's queen of the skies / Jim Eames.
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ISBN 9781760877118
Author Eames, Jim (author)
Title The mighty 747 : Australia's queen of the skies / Jim Eames.
Other title Mighty seven forty seven.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
©2022.
Description ix, 272 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly colour plates ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "'We have decided we must have the 747.' - Bert Ritchie, Qantas Chief Executive, 1967. From its first Qantas flight in 1971, the Boeing 747 flew millions of people to Australia, overseas for work, back to their homelands, on holidays and out of danger. In this jet-set nostalgia journey, Jim Eames - bestselling author of The Flying Kangaroo and Courage in the Skies - tells us how the 747, a watershed in aviation technologt, dramatically changed air travel, and recounts the high points of its life at Qantas, inclduing the uplift out of Drawin after Cyclone Tracey, the return of the Diggers to Gallipolli and the evacuation of Australians from Wuhan. We discover how the 747 came in all shapes and sizes, eventually becoming the 747-400, which set a world distance record from London to Sydney. We also find out about the near misses and how close we have come to disaster on several occasions. And finally, we remember the 747's farewell to Australian, when it departed our skies for the last time in 2020. The Mighty 747 is the jumbo's Australian stry, and is woven with the humour and nostalgia of the people at Qantas who sold the 747 to Australia and who made it work on the ground and in the air."--Back cover.
Subjects Qantas Airways -- History
Qantas Airways
Boeing 747 (Jet transports)
Airlines -- Australia -- History
Aeronautics, Commercial -- Australia
Aeronautics -- Flights
Airlines -- Australia
Air travel -- History
Call number 2022.243
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