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dflprincess

(28,514 posts) Wed Dec 20, 2017, 08:55 PM Dec 2017

My coworkers and I stood at our office windows today and managed to catch a [View all]

glimpse of a 747 as it made its final final descent into MSP.

I don't know why, but we were all a little awestruck by it. I never flew on one but, from the pictures, it was an incredible plane.

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My coworkers and I stood at our office windows today and managed to catch a [View all] dflprincess Dec 2017 OP

Isn't that plane Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #1

Yes - that's what made it an event nt dflprincess Dec 2017 #4

Seems to me,it was a major Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #6

The paper's article about it said it wouldn't fit in the hangars they had at the time dflprincess Dec 2017 #7

Remember that photo. Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #8

My cousin worked on the ground crew for Northwest. When they went Delta he quit geardaddy Dec 2017 #10

That was baked into the Cake Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #11

That was the last one. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2017 #2

I thought of you while we were watching it. nt dflprincess Dec 2017 #5

IIRC, I was on one in the mid-80s to fly to Europe via Northwest Orient. Enormous! WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2017 #3

I flew on them a few times geardaddy Dec 2017 #9