Captain Susan
Another historic relic
The original plane!
Hello all or few,
A nice warm day in Longreach today with no dew this morning. After a spin around the main streets we proceeded to the QANTAS Founders museum a non profit organisation which is a separate entity to QANTAS. We took the Museum, Boeing 747 Secrets and Boeing 707 Restoration Tours. Total cost was circa $100 for 2. The Museum looked to be sparsely populated with exhibits, however this was deceptive as there was a wealth of information to be examined and many extensive video presentations to be viewed. The 2 plane tours went for a combined total of one and a half hours. The 747 was donated by QANTAS and actually flown in to the Longreach airport. At the end of its service life it had made 18000 flights, carried 6 million passengers and travelled 83 million km or about 100 round trips to the moon. The 707 was the first one that rolled out of the Boeing factory in 1957 and was manufactured for QANTAS. It was discovered in Essex UK in the late 90’s and was restored by volunteers and flown back to Australia also ending up in Longreach. We ran out of time so instead of heading off tomorrow we will stay an extra night and return to the museum with pass outs garnered today and also visit the Stockmans Hall of Fame.
Cheers
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