CargoLux 747 graciously allows us to depart first

Man the 747s are such beautiful planes. My dad flew these for nearly 20 years and I got the opportunity to be a passenger once. 9 year old me couldn’t believe that there were beds in there!

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Strict_Lettuce3233@reddit

I lived the same life at 9. Parallel worlds. 747 fedx 70’s, 80’s

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sadpancreas@reddit

Only 20-30 years apart! I went early 2000’s on a 747-400 Cargolux.

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Unbelievable machines in amaze me how they can even possibly make something like this. I flew with my dad on training missions and stuff like that. It was so weird to see a huge plane like that almost effortlessly scoot into the year at nine and 10 years old. And even better when I was older because I used to look through his manuals to learn different systems. The manuals were like 6 inches thick and he had a whole library full of them.

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AboveAverage1988@reddit

"Cargolux 1234 runway 24 cleared for takeoff, caution wake turbulence behind departing Cessna 150."

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brandnewbanana@reddit

(for anyone curious about the prop wash warning)

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waby-saby@reddit

I used to fly out of Redlands when Norton AFB was active.

I'd (pretty much every time) say:
"Skyhawk 52434 Heavy on the ground at Redlands Navel Air Station...."

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PixelPusher__@reddit

Love the Cargolux liveries.

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banshee43@reddit

While taxiing I believe plane should curtsy to each other. Few inches down on the front wheel and a some leading edge flap action should do the trick.

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Luxdrayke@reddit

Such a cool looking plane!

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Legitimate_Delay2226@reddit

“Your majesty…🙂‍↕️”

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slyskyflyby@reddit

Meanwhile when my father-in-law and I met at an airport (him in a 747 and me in a C-17) we raced to see who could preflight the fastest and ended up chasing each other down to the end of the runway but I ended up getting a back taxi instruction so the runway was mine first. I have a video of us racing that I send him once in a while to remind him I beat him.

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longlife55@reddit

We want to see the video

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slyskyflyby@reddit

I would share it in this thread but I guess I'll have to make a separate post since they don't have photo/video commenting enabled.

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longlife55@reddit

I think story like this deserves a post of its own. Please do share the link here, once you have posted..so others can go see. Looking forward.

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slyskyflyby@reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/nqvPG8UQ0x

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longlife55@reddit

Love it!

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Difficult-Implement9@reddit

This made my day 😂😂

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Caspi7@reddit

Damn how cool is that

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GhostPepperDaddy@reddit

He married his wife just to have that moment to share with everyone he meets.

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W00DERS0N60@reddit

How many kids do you have?

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Horus107@reddit

Haste makes waste, wouldn't want to see my pilot race through the preflight checks...

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slyskyflyby@reddit

If the checks are complete what does it matter if it's done quickly or not?

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Horus107@reddit

Because of the if. Doing stuff hastily increases probability of errors.

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slyskyflyby@reddit

We also have timelines we have to meet. There's balance between getting it done quickly and getting it done slowly. We also can't do it slowly because we'd always be late. There's nothing wrong with trying to increase the speed at which you can accomplish preflight checks. It's pretty governed by a checklist anyway, if you follow the checklist it doesn't matter how fast you do it, you will still have accomplished what must be done.

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