Day 4 Longreach Part 1

Today I went to the QANTAS Museum in Longreach to see how QANTAS airlines started. In the museum it had a flight simulator that you can try and see how good you are at flying a 1927 aeroplane around an area. It had a little passenger cabin which was an example of the first ever QANTAS passenger plane, the others were either a 1 person plane (just pilot) or an air mail plane. There was a big Rolls Royce engine that was really big.

The Rolls Royce engine and me.

After Mum and I had a look in the museum we went on a tour that told us about the Boeing 707 and Boeing 747 planes. the tour guide told us a lot of information about the 747 first. After about an hour later we got to go into the plane where the tour guide told us about the history of the 747. (The tour guide told the group how about 3 three trailered road trains came with some red paint just to paint the tail end of the plane).

Boeing 707

Me next to the 747

Boeing 747

The 747 from the side 

Then after looking in the aircraft we went over to the 707 were the plane was left to rot some-where in England, this was the first plane 707 that QANTAS ever owned, the QANTAS museum council took notice  of the plane sitting there and tried to get it back which took three years to do. When they got the plane to Florida, John Travolta came with his 707 to see the plane on display. The one at the museum now was the first ever 707 and John Travolta's is the last, number 13. Mum and I had a look inside the 707 and we both thought that it was more luxurious than the planes are now. When the Jackson 5 toured in Australia that was the plane that he used.

The sunset at Longreach.