Australia's Qantas 747 flight draws kangaroo in the sky before retiring, watch video

After almost 50 years of flying, Australia’s national airline Qantas bid farewell to last Boeing 747 jumbo jet and to mark occasion, aircraft was used to carve a special mess in sky with its flight path. While taking to Twitter, Qantas shared a video of passenger plane taking off from Sydney Airport for Los Angeles and flight path tracing logo of airline’s iconic kangaroo in sky. Flight QF7474, which is bound for retirement in Mojave Desert, drew special sign before leaving Australian air. 

company in a statement said, “ final 747-400 in fleet (registration VH-OEJ) will depart Sydney at 2pm as flight number QF7474, bringing to an end five deces of history-making moments for national carrier and aviation in Australia”.

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According to a press release, Qantas’ 747s were first brought into operation in Australia in August 1971, which is same year that William McMahon became Prime Minister, first McDonalds opened in Australia and Eagle Rock by Ddy Cool topped music charts. Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce called aircraft ‘well ahe of its time’ and ‘extremely capable’. She ded that engineers and cabin crew loved working on jumbo jet and pilots also loved flying m. 

Farewell of ‘Queen of skies’ 

To bid farewell to plane, several Australians reportedly gared at Sydney Airport. Boeing 747 also received a water salute before departure. According to an international media outlet, plane was loed with cargo bound for Los Angeles before aircraft goes into stor at a boneyard in Mojave Desert. company said that arrival and ecomics of jumbo jet me international travel possible for millions of people for first time. 

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Joyce said, “It’s hard to overstate impact that 747 h on aviation and a country as far away as Australia. It replaced 707, which was a huge leap forward in itself but didn’t have sheer size and scale to lower airfares way 747 did. That put international travel within reach of aver Australian and people jumped at opportunity”. 

As per press release, 747 is w being replaced by more fuel-efficient aircraft with better range, like 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350. company said that fleet was set to be retired this year, however, dely coronavirus pandemic decimated travel globally, which moved up retirement by six months. last rescue missions 747 flew for Qantas were t bring hundreds of stranded Australians home from COVID-19 epicentre of Wuhan in February this year. 

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