Past the 100

Congratulations and keep up the good posting!

Nice photos. Always liked the Saudi Arabian colour scheme, looks great on the 777 but not so good on the 747SP, what a dreadful 747 variant!

Kev depending on what flights come into LHR next Saturday… you should see at least one SP.

Originally posted by robc
Great Pictures and it is without a doubt an SP, i thought everyone knew about the SP’s funny tail fusalage…:confused:

Mmmmm, apparently not. It’s been about 20 years since I last saw an SP and it just never entered my head.

theplane.

Please post more. My aircraft recognition skills need all the help they can get.

Regards,

kev35

Great Pictures and it is without a doubt an SP, i thought everyone knew about the SP’s funny tail fusalage…:confused:

i must admit that the SP looks weird (to say the least), but no, i hardly know how to resize and crop in photoshop, let alone join two 747s 😀 i have a few other pictures with it (if anyone wants me to post them), and i can never decide whether it’s a nice plane to look at or not…and yes, unusually enough, the GVA authorities have been a little lax on cutting the grass :p

and for those of you who like this airplane (i have mixed feelings about it), here’s what followed the SP out….however, it was the normal scheduled flight, and not a royal flight like the SPs…..sometimes, i think GVA would best fit into the middle east, since there are times whene there are more Arabic airplanes than Swiss ones…and it’s gonna get even worse with SWISSs cutbacks :rolleyes:

The plane.

I’ll be honest, I thought you’d stuck two 747’s together rather badly in photoshop. Never occurred to me that it might be an SP. Still looks like it force-landed in a wheatfield.

Regards,

kev35

and here’s the shot as it went past….fence in the way though…

for the conspiracy theorists out there, Andy was right! It IS due to oversharpening (so i was feeling a little lazy and let Photoshop do an AutoLevels for me)…heres the original, unsharpened and cropped 😀

That is a gas guzzling SP

It is one of the few, awful 747 SPs… Should I say “not-totally-grown-up 747”?

The bulge is because they shortened the fuselage too much, and they could not get a sleek line, hence the bulge…

Great pic, great scheme, awful plane.

Kev Cheers… I never noticed… I celebrate tomorrow with a few pics. 😀

Yep the one in the Picture above is an SP.

LOL! Don’t do that just yet… I wouldn’t trust my judgement as far as I could throw it!!! 🙂

Andy,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4,000 POSTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When are you going to do an interesting one?:p

Well done mate. Look forward to more.

Regards,

kev35

I’ll shut up and get me coat then.;)

Regards,

kev35

Looks like an SP to me!

And is that an SP?

Regards,

kev35

No Kev its only SP’s. I got a 747SP model the other day and it has this shape… thought the other 747’s I have, the 200 and 400’s dont have this shape.

I think Kabir and VLM Flyer are right about the bulging appearance of the fuselage before the tail section. Do 747’s have that Coke bottle shape at the tail? I can’t put my finger on it but it just looks wrong somehow.

Regards,

kev35

Congrats on the milestone matey. Nice pic too.

I think that the pictures looks a little on the weird side due to a slight over sharppening.