austin powers 747

[russianboy]

can anybody help me find an austin powers 747 (any kind).

[virginatlantic]

I saw one of Virgin Atlantic's old Livery where they had the 747-200 named Austin Powers with a photo of Austin on the front instead of the Virgin Lady, sorry can't remember where!

[OO-SBZ]

can anybody help me find an austin powers 747 (any kind).

Do you mean the Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 featuring the ubiquitous 70s spy?

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/088674/L/


Or do you mean the "real" Austin Powers Boeing 747 (from the movie)?

1. The first 747, a -143 series, was rolled off the Renton production line at the Seattle Boeing Plant on November 15, 1969, with first service entry (A Pan-Am 747-145) in June 1970.
2. The plane in the movie was a 747-238B, the type introduced in 1979. It also has Pratt and Whitney turbofans, the first P&W engine was attached to a 747 in 1979. He also had winglets, a feature never actually attached to a 747 until 1985.
3. The plane in the movie was leased from Qantas Australia, registration VH-EBV, a 747-238B. I know, because I saw it getting repainted for the movie at the QANTAS jet base in Sydney.

http://www.slipups.com/items/5042.html

Or do you means a scale model of the spy's private jet?



What a livery... looks like Transavia (the carrier's design-bureau (Landor)) got some inspiration from these "colours".

BeN

[Ovostar]

it's funny, because austin powers is supposed to be in 1968 ... and there was no 747 at the time

[virginatlantic]

That's the Virgin Atlantic aircraft I was on about, only I saw it on a download website for FSim somewhere but can not remember where it was! I'll keep looking!

[vc-10]

But you could have ordered the 747 in 1968.....