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03-24-2015 | 02:41 PM

kfahmi

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Who's flying the 747-8?

Aside from Lufthansa's solitary 747-8 that I see every day @ LAX, I can't say I've seen another -8 in passenger service.

Who's flying the airplane? Has it been a gigantic flop for Boeing, or have they done well with foreign orders?

Edit: never mind, I just answered my own question.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_...and_deliveries

Looks like they've only got 51 orders including 29 deliveries for the pax version, and not much more than that for the cargo version. Wow...

03-24-2015 | 02:47 PM

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Pretty sure Atlas has more on order. They like the airplane, it is a flop as far as being a passenger carrier.

03-24-2015 | 04:30 PM

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Cargolux, at least last year, had one in Huntsville every night.

i haven't been there in a year, but I'd guess it's still the case.

03-24-2015 | 05:11 PM

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Cargolux, at least last year, had one in Huntsville every night.

i haven't been there in a year, but I'd guess it's still the case.

I'm in Huntsville tonight and there is an Atlas bird sitting on the ramp. Might that be a -8? I don't know how to tell from the outside - if in fact you can.

03-24-2015 | 05:19 PM

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Who's flying the 747-8?

Look at the back of the motors...they have the sawtooth nacelles like the Dreamliner, as a matter of fact the motors are off the Dreamliner. No winglets either

03-24-2015 | 05:39 PM

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The -8 has the zig zag engine nacelles, longer upper deck & raked winglets that are slightly angled up.

03-25-2015 | 12:03 AM

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The -8 has the zig zag engine nacelles, longer upper deck & raked winglets that are slightly angled up.

upper deck is only longer on the -8i, not the -8f.

Saw a cargolux 747 at LAX a few nights ago, think it was an -8F

03-25-2015 | 12:41 AM

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I'm in Huntsville tonight and there is an Atlas bird sitting on the ramp. Might that be a -8? I don't know how to tell from the outside - if in fact you can.

It probably was. For the most part all the aircraft Atlas operates for the HSV customer is -8Fs.