Qantas museum

Yesterday we spent the morning at the Qantas Founders Museum. Qantas started in this area in 1920, the original hanger is here plus, vintage planes and 747 and 707. They have different tours to take and we opted for the jet tour which allowed us the museum, and access to 747 and 707, also had our photo taken in the jet engine of the 747. We could have gone on the wing walk tour, which was extra of course and had a photo on the wing of the 707, but photo in the engine was enough for us.

We got a pass to visit the museum today and Brian went back and spent the morning there.

747 aircraft, donated to the museum in 2002 when it was getting to old to fly, it was a big day when it flew into Longreach in Nov 2002 as the runway was a lot smaller than what they usually land on, when it did land on the first try it took 19 turns to turn around as it's wingspan is 60 metres and the runway 30 mtrs

This is the 707, an older plane and type that John Travolta flys as his private jet, it's a lot older inside, with wooden fittings etc

The red and orange boxes are the Black Boxes.

Inside the 747, no individual movie screens and ashtrays on the seats, showing its age.....

Inside the cockpit of 747

Inside the galley on the 707

Inside the cockpit of 707

Old Catalina aircraft, used by Qantas to fly mail from Australia to Sri Lanka in WW2

Brian in WW1 fighter flight simulater he crashed through quite a few trees, houses etc but did land safely 

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Photo of a photo, Brian and I in the engine of the 747