Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: ncole@nyx.cs.du.edu (Noah Cole) Subject: Re: 747SP X-Submission-Date: Wed, 2 Dec 92 19:48:13 GMT References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Macalester College, St. Paul Minnesota USA Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: <1992Dec2.194813.2984@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Date: 02 Dec 92 13:18:58 PST kls@ohare.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) writes: >In article ncole@nyx.cs.du.edu (Noah Cole) writes: >>How many airlines use 747SP's today? I have a poster from Popular Mechanics >>that was around the arrival of the 747-400 with a drawing of a United >>747SP and it said that the 747SP set a record flying from Payne Field, >>Washington to South Africa. Was that SAA? Who flies the 747SP Today >>and on what routes? (Info on ownership of 747SP deleted- it was very interesting though. Thanks) >Oh yes, it was a South African 747SP delivery that held a record for >longest flight (time or distance or both) for a jetliner or some such. >That may still stand but I wouldn't be too surprised if a 747-400 had >subsequently established a new record. I thin k that the record was set by a Qantas 747-400 from LHR to SYD in the summer of 1989 with the poassengers being the British Cricket Team and the only article in the cargo was a cricket ball. -Noah Cole -- Noah Cole "Outside is America, NCOLE@MACALSTR.EDU Macalester College and also the car park" ncole@nyx.cs.du.edu St. Paul, MN 55105 - Bono, 27 December 1989 cncole@coos.dartmouth.edu 612-696-7388 Dublin aj909@cleveland.freenet.edu