Its not every day you get the Queen of the skies fly over your house... well in Brisbane anyway. Well yesterday a Qantas jumbo did just that. It was flying domestically from Sydney to Brisbane in preparation for today's Antarctica flight.
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| QANTAS B747-438ER VH-OEI (CN 32913) |
Every year "Antarctic Flights.com" (http://www.antarcticaflights.com.au) put on scenic flights from Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane. Last year even Hobart got one for the first time. Well as today was Brisbane's turn I headed out to the airport early arriving there at 7am to get the morning departure. I can tell you it was very strange to see a Jumbo jet parked at the domestic terminal and you couldn't miss it.
The flight is around 14 hours long and as it got away 10 minutes late at 7.40am it should be back in Brisbane around 9.30pm tonight. Antarctic Flights organise the trips and charter Qantas 747's. Today's trip was operated by VH-OEI, this aircraft is sporting the "Go Wallabies" livery. QF 2903 pushed back from gate 24 at the domestic terminal at 7.44am and taxied out for runway 19L. After taking up more than 3/4's of the runway it got airborne at 7.58am.
It flew down the coast of Australia passing over Sydney and kept that heading eventually leaving Australian airspace south of Tasmania.
The flight will circle Antarctica for around 4 hours swapping passengers around so they all get a window seat before heading back to Brisbane.
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