Brings back lovely memories from the late seventies. I used to go to school under the flight path to Kai Tak. One of my favorites was watching the Pan Am B747 SPs. Seemed to recall the afternoons were the rush hour while we out playing football or rounders on the playing field.
I flew a corporate BAC 1-11 into Kai Tak a few times in the 80's. Have to admit it was both fun and scared the crap out of me. Now, Kai Tak is no more. Like me. Retired .
Humans have never been innocent and the Gulfwar had ended a couple of years before this and soon wars would start in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo... in which the US, Canada and NATO participated in some of them I can't think of a single thing better about back then... except for the state of the environment and how airplanes were better looking and more comfortable.
I flew into Kai Tak many times in DC8's but by the time I transitioned to 747's the place was gone. Kind of miss it and kind of don't. Hong Kong was always one of my favorite layovers with Anchorage being #1.
The tail fin on these SPs has got to be one of, if not the biggest one ever put on a commercial airliner. It's a funny looking plane, but I've always had a soft spot for the SP for some reason.
I've seen quite a lot of Kai Tak vids over the time but I never saw any vid capturing landing from the angle as the one starting at around 3'' - and it is the best angle IMO well done JustPlanes !!!
i was fortunate enough to be able to ride one of these on a trip to asia back in the 90's...beautiful airplanes...i think there's only one or two left flying today if i'm not mistaken
747SPs were absolutely fantastic (and they're cute) until the new(er) 747-400s been launched. I would like to keep watching the 747SP but sadly many airlines are flying Boeing 787s or even 777 - 200ERs which are more feasible option.
The 747SP was a "shorty" version that was engineered for maximum range at the cost of passenger capacity. Only a few dozen were built due to its small market niche.
N4508H, operated by Mandarin Airlines in this video was cut up in 2008, and parts used to support NASA 747, the Sophia observatory. www.aussieairliners.org/b-747sp/n4508h/n4508h.html
Nice video JustPlanes, I thought this model 747SP was only created in FSX simulator, but I am wrong, it actually existed the shorter version of current 747 series
Mark Mckay For the reasons of 1.maintaining a sterile cockpit 2. to not have anything to distract the pilots British Airways, Air New Zealand and Qantas will not allow filming within the cockpit. Those reasons have been found to be the cause of many, many air craft disasters. The fact that JustPlanes and Qantas having a personality clash seals the fate of any filming ever happening.
I have like this love hate relationship with the 747sp it looks cute with that little size but it makes it weird I don't know I like it but I don't know what I like about it do I have a condition
Ananda Daffa I promise you, it stands for special performance. However when Boeing was making it they were calling it the 747 SB for short body. It stands for special performance because the shorter fuselage removed weight, which allowed for a greater range. The tail is also taller than a regular 747, hence the special performance. Pan Am asked Boeing to make this plane to compete with smaller widebody jets at the time.
Edin Nyange additionally it was also designed for Iran Air(when we were in love with country😊), to satisfy their need for a Tehran-Kennedy nonstop and for South African Airways(SAA) to fly from Joberg nonstop to Europe while circumnavigating interior African countries who would not allow that airline to overfly their countries due the to their then apartheid regime.
I always enjoyed the 747 SP. They were really pushing the limits of range with that aircraft!
You can make all the Dreamliners you want, but nothing will ever replace the 747.
Agreed
True
Brings back lovely memories from the late seventies. I used to go to school under the flight path to Kai Tak. One of my favorites was watching the Pan Am B747 SPs. Seemed to recall the afternoons were the rush hour while we out playing football or rounders on the playing field.
0:50 N4522V had a terrifying plunge over the Pacific from FL410 to 10000 feet just 10 years prior to the filming of this video.
I flew a corporate BAC 1-11 into Kai Tak a few times in the 80's. Have to admit it was both fun and scared the crap out of me. Now, Kai Tak is no more. Like me. Retired .
It was a simpler time. A better time. A time when we were young and innocent, and the world was at peace.
Humans have never been innocent and the Gulfwar had ended a couple of years before this and soon wars would start in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo... in which the US, Canada and NATO participated in some of them
I can't think of a single thing better about back then... except for the state of the environment and how airplanes were better looking and more comfortable.
The world was less at peace then...
I flew into Kai Tak many times in DC8's but by the time I transitioned to 747's the place was gone. Kind of miss it and kind of don't. Hong Kong was always one of my favorite layovers with Anchorage being #1.
747sp always look hilarious to me idk y
yes right hahaha😁😁😆😄
they look hilarious to me too there just so small like a baby
Dont call it baby is just not smol is short
its really amazing how short and stubby they look now compared to the newer aircraft.
The tail fin on these SPs has got to be one of, if not the biggest one ever put on a commercial airliner. It's a funny looking plane, but I've always had a soft spot for the SP for some reason.
The tail fin ... which was double-hinged, btw ... had to be larger to compensate for the shorter length of the aircraft.
the 747 SP has such strange proportions but I absolutely love it
Best plane by far ever made. Period.
The SP is so unusually short, I love it.
I have happy memories of flying the 747SP to Hong Kong. A rather unusual shape, but in its day, the only way of doing the longer-haul flights.
I've seen quite a lot of Kai Tak vids over the time but I never saw any vid capturing landing from the angle as the one starting at around 3'' - and it is the best angle IMO well done JustPlanes !!!
Thank You! 😎
Awesome vid. I loved that "little" SP and thought it was the coolest and cutest of the 74 versions. Thanks for posting.
i was fortunate enough to be able to ride one of these on a trip to asia back in the 90's...beautiful airplanes...i think there's only one or two left flying today if i'm not mistaken
Wow! Incredible 747SP, it's rare in comparison with the other 747, but I like it.
Who is the ICAO of Kai Tak?
Until 1998 (before it was closed VHHK --> Name of the new Airport now)
Nowadays VHHX
riohor Thanks
riohor Actually, it is VHHH.
planetime 86 VHHH is Chek Lap Kok airport, the new one. VHHX is Kai Tak.
until 1998 when Chep Lap Kok was opened
The aircraft at 0:50 was the same one involved in the China Airlines 006 incident yikes
0:49 N4522V,the same 747SP that was badly damaged and nearly crashed as China Airlines flight 006
0:30 Philippine Airlines 747. And N4522V 0:48 was the China Airlines flight 006 that nearly crashed at the ocean.
WOW! Thanks for sharing this fantastic video!
It's not just a awesome plane, but it's also really cute to me
Excellent! Thank you! 🌞
@arsh khurana they are called slats. They're like flaps, they increase the curvature of the wing and increase lift.
That's very nice memory . i really miss Kai Tak , HKG .
1:54 2:39 those two 747sp,s sound great
747SPs were absolutely fantastic (and they're cute) until the new(er) 747-400s been launched. I would like to keep watching the 747SP but sadly many airlines are flying Boeing 787s or even 777 - 200ERs which are more feasible option.
Gotta love the old Hong Kong Kai Tak airport 💖
Sadly, closed in 1998
The one at 00:48 is the plane in the China Airlines 006 incident!
It appears in the Air Crash Investigation, N4522V
I see it. The exact same plane that almost crashed!
You're right. I also did a research about it.
China Airlines flight 6 of note on N4522V, which is in this video.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_006
wow, didn't realize the 747 was so stubby when if first appeared!
Nice video, you guys do excellent work
The 747SP was a "shorty" version that was engineered for maximum range at the cost of passenger capacity. Only a few dozen were built due to its small market niche.
N4508H, operated by Mandarin Airlines in this video was cut up in 2008, and parts used to support NASA 747, the Sophia observatory.
www.aussieairliners.org/b-747sp/n4508h/n4508h.html
This has got to be an old video with the Boeing 747sp flying there and with the tails of a Thai MD11 or DC-10 and with the JAL as well.
HL-7456, also observed, cut up for scrap as N709BA. In KAL livery in this clip. c/n 22483-501.
Thanks for the clips
forever boeing 747 i Love
People think that 'SP' stands for 'Special Performance' but really it stands for 'Stubby Plane' :)
Awesome video.
Does SP Stand For Small Plane? (Like 747SP Small Plane)?
ValenTheBest_ 2018 No.SP means “Special Performance “
What is the thing coming out from front of the aircrafts wing??
0:48 i know that aircaft that's China Airline flight 006 N4522V the aircraft involed
MK Air Mauritius SP at minute 2.17 on video
Nice video JustPlanes, I thought this model 747SP was only created in FSX simulator, but I am wrong, it actually existed the shorter version of current 747 series
What a funny looking plane!
Aaaand on 3:28 I didn't know that korean airlines had a 747sp
por favor tenho muito intereçe de adiquirir o DVD de vcs
vcs tem algumas filmagens em algum aéroporto de são paulo brazil?
grato
Iconic combination
Imagine a380 landings
They actually land now at the new one but Kai Tak? Oh boy...
a380 are ugly af
@@user-df3ty8ei2u cry
Wow thanks jp.Any chance of an air nz, qantas ,or ba flight in cockpit
Mark Mckay Noop... but we have 260 other airlines ;)
Mark Mckay
For the reasons of 1.maintaining a sterile cockpit 2. to not have anything to distract the pilots British Airways, Air New Zealand and Qantas will not allow filming within the cockpit. Those reasons have been found to be the cause of many, many air craft disasters. The fact that JustPlanes and Qantas having a personality clash seals the fate of any filming ever happening.
Brilliant video
great korean air landing footage, liked that last minute roll.
awesome !
so cute
what a looker
That airport is a the scariest airport
1:30 that SP took of so quick
The Mandarin Airlines look like Aeroflot
Kai tak close?
I have like this love hate relationship with the 747sp it looks cute with that little size but it makes it weird I don't know I like it but I don't know what I like about it do I have a condition
Checker board
Checkerboard Hill! Now overgrown, sadly!
I always thought the SP looked elegant
Boeing please build the B747sp ng!
It would have two engines instead cauz airliners like twin engined aircraft 😂😂
why did that one China 747sp have a N#
it was leased from Wilmington Trust Company in '82
Nice jet
3:19 scary maneuver 😮
korean air and united airlines flew this i to sfo constsntly
what is SP
It stands for special performance
Short plane 😉
Ananda Daffa I promise you, it stands for special performance. However when Boeing was making it they were calling it the 747 SB for short body. It stands for special performance because the shorter fuselage removed weight, which allowed for a greater range. The tail is also taller than a regular 747, hence the special performance. Pan Am asked Boeing to make this plane to compete with smaller widebody jets at the time.
Edin Nyange additionally it was also designed for Iran Air(when we were in love with country😊), to satisfy their need for a Tehran-Kennedy nonstop and for South African Airways(SAA) to fly from Joberg nonstop to Europe while circumnavigating interior African countries who would not allow that airline to overfly their countries due the to their then apartheid regime.
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I know. That's why I put the wink emoji since I was joking
22V!
There's a guy on the apron on a bicycle! What the hell?
Relax, it's hong Kong
大韓航空が2002年ワールドカップは韓国だけの開催だったことにしてて草
:D
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They're average...
No sabía que Boeing fabricó 747 de cuerpo o fuselaje tan corto, pero se ven bien.