Aerotime

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The newest Emirates member will be powered by a blend of jet fuel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) when the aircraft makes its ferry flight. And in March 2024, the completed plane was photographed with just its tail painted in the Emirates colors.

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Ferry Flight Airlines Airline Tail 274

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 27, 2025

After going through a series of conventional and unconventional designs, engineers Clarence “Kelly” Johnson and Hall Hibbard drew up a twin boom tail design, with an Allison V-1710 inline engine on the front of each boom ahead of the singular, cantilever wing, and a fuselage pod in between the two engines and booms.

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Tail Ferry Flight Approach 75

Aerotime

JUNE 21, 2024

There, it was to be repurposed as a passenger-carrying aircraft for tourist flights and air safaris in Zimbabwe in southern Africa. The tail was completely blown off, the port float was virtually shot away, and the port wing was damaged. Numerous holes had been made in the plane’s hull, so it started to take on water and sink.

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Pilot Tail Ferry Flight Clearance 293

Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

Sporting tail numbers 28000 and 29000, the VC-25As have been transporting heads of state for the US since 1987. Modifications were made to the aircraft to install a swing tail for easier loading, and the upper fuselage extended for more cargo capacity. The end result was four 747s with three times the cargo volume of a 747-400F.

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Cargo Ferry Flight Tail Horizontal Stabilizer 274

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Despite the challenges, the Jayhawk Wing is determined to restore the damaged Bobcat, which sustained most of its damage to the tail section. A dedicated group of Jayhawk members made two trips to Midland to prepare N44795 for its ferry flight to Wichita. In 1994, the plane was returned to CAF Headquarters in Midland, Texas.

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Ferry Flight Tail Pilot 98

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 30, 2025

All three of these airliners had two decks for passengers, with seats that could be folded down to be turned into beds for overnight flights, two freight compartments in the nose and the tail, stairways to access the two decks, and a galley to provide inflight meals and refreshments.

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Airlines Airline Ferry Flight Tail 59

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 14, 2024

A young Art Lacey before the ferry flight. Next, the aircraft found itself at several Army Airfields across the country, from Rome, New York to Cincinnati, Ohio, to Independence, Kansas before ending up at Altus in November 1945, one of many planes to go from the factories to the scrapyards at the end of the war.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Runway 119