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Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by joncrane »

blantonl wrote: post #89

This was almost certainly drawn out by hand, waypoints (lat/lon) and turns were plotted and then inputed into the flight management computer, and there is a good chance the plane just flew itself as told. Although given it was flown at such a lower altitude below 15k feed near Moses Lake (which is where Boeing does a ton of testing at that airport) it's possible the pilots hand flew this by following a pre-plotted ma…

This is what I was curious about. Presumably ATC wasn't calling out vectors, they were doing it through their own navigation. So did ATC basically give them free movement within a certain box and certain altitude? It looks like they did the moves at about 10,000 feet.

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Post by johntiger1 »

graphe wrote: post #209
protastus wrote: post #73

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Every complex project lives and dies by a relatively small group of true believers. From the outside, we don't know who they are, but sometimes we get a glimpse of their passion.

How true is this? In civilizations past such as the Romans you could cut off the heads like the emperor and it would be unchanged for millions. In china when the communists defeated the Manchus, some villagers were amazed these people defeated what they thought was the Ming dynasty. Khomeini was killed, Trump isn't president anymore and Iran's military and the right haven't died. In tech, Bell Labs is 'demonopolized'…

when did the communists defeat the manchus? do you mean the KMT..?

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by swyx »

thedrake wrote: post #71

Here is the story behind the flight and drawing in the sky via flight path https://aviationsourcenews.com/breaking/atlas-air-to-fly-spe...

> "She’s a darn good-looking airplane… An incredible honor for me"

don't all 747's look the same by definition? lol

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Post by dylan604 »

rootusrootus wrote: post #97
dylan604 wrote: post #88

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Better then than on the first passenger filled flight. Don't think of it as the delivery flight. Think of it is final test flight

This is a cargo plane, though, I don't think a passenger 747 has been built in a while.

same difference

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Post by renewiltord »

stubish wrote: post #384
renewiltord wrote: post #371

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Exactly. It's why I have a truck, actually. Sure, I could drive an electric Nissan Leaf, but come on. Is that life worth living?

Sure, if that is important to you. You are welcome to make sacrifices elsewhere. We will need to make sure you make them though, probably by taxing your petrol through the roof.

You’re welcome to try.

Both Boeing and I will win.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by j5155 »

hackmiester wrote: post #280
jt2190 wrote: post #225

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Make sure to choose “yes” to see the Easter egg > Live flight not found > The flight with callsign GTI747 is currently not tracked by Flightradar24. It's either out of coverage or has already landed. > Do you want to see the flight history of this aircraft? > [ ] No, close pop-up > [X] Yes, show aircraft history

It opened the app for me, but the app doesn’t offer this option, so it just fails. Great.

The app offered this option for me. Are you on the latest version?

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by qwertox »

selectodude wrote: post #378
qwertox wrote: post #295

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https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n863gt/#2f0b1162 The drawing started at 16:50 UTC and ended at 19:30 UTC, so 2 hours and 40 minutes of the 6 hours and 20 minutes long flight. In any case, this most likely required approval from the FAA, but the cost per se should be neglectable, considering that they have been produced since 1970s.

It didn’t require approval from the FAA as the flight plan was filed in class G (uncontrolled) airspace below 14,000 feet. Might have been a bit of a trip to fly in your Cessna and see a 747 flying down there though.

You're right, thank you for sharing that fact.

I revisited the flight data and if flies below 13,000 ft until it finished the drawing. Then it rose to 41,000 ft and increased the speed from ~200 knots to somewhat over 500.

It blows my mind to think that an 747 is allowed to use the uncontrolled airspace as if it were a Cessna.

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Post by yreg »

dspillett wrote: post #276
gtirloni wrote: post #269

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The popup is about any cookies, right? Cookies are a basic building blocks of websites. If you login to a legit website, there's a cookie in your browser for that.

> The popup is about any cookies, right? The popup is, yes. But the legislation they are pretending to be compliant with isn't. For basic session-level cookies that are essential to the operation of some sites, no legislation requires consent. The issues are third party tracking, long term use stalking, etc. But those that want to stalk you want you to believe that the legislation is against even session maintenance…

Unfortunately it's not always reasonably possible to convince the client / legal team that a cookie banner is not needed in such case and the decision makers would rather be sure than care about the UX. Or so I heard.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by njacobs5074 »

supernova87a wrote: post #46

I find it just really endearing that at companies, regardless of how many other issues they have or the dysfunctions and bland corporate culture, there are people who keep the pride of purpose and "olden days / traditions" in their memory and do things like this. Or are able to call on institutional memory of something bygone, that reappears once in a while. (whether it's a big gesture like this or small cultural day…

Interesting narrative - all we need is Bruce Willis at the controls and we’re gold ;)

I’m sure it was all planned and coordinated with their marketing team. After all, they need to figure out important things like how much fuel, time to arrival, etc.

Right?

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by wkat4242 »

Armisael16 wrote: post #275
wkat4242 wrote: post #271

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I know, but as far as I know it requires them to stay with 200nm or so of an airport. So they can't take the most direct route. Also for flights over the poles. I think four engines still have a benefit there. But I guess you don't run a whole airplane model just because it's not economical on 2 or 3 routes.

The 787 has a 330 minute ETOPS certification, so as long as it’s within 6.5 hours of an airport it can fly there. That’s almost everywhere on the planet except the South Pacific and Antarctica.

Aha ok, I didn't know that. I thought they had to remain within glide distance (and I think this was also the case in the beginning). I haven't flown intercontinentally for a very long time :) And most of it was in 747s.
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