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Yesterday I came back from holydays with a connection in Schipol-Amsterdam, Netherlands. We landed then I saw a very mysterious airplane, on some area between runways, like old half-finished prototype or half-hidden secret plane...
Well, it had a bump like a Boeing 747 but was much smaller and only one engine per wing, and with 1 jet in the tail like a DC-10... Alas I had no camera but I though "I will ask Google". I did this morning with words "old aircraft at Schipol airport" and got it! Firefly747!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8585732@N07/2373906143
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8585732@N07/2373906305
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8585732@N07/2374741262
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8585732@N07/2373905575
But! What is this??? Glazed-nose Russian Boeing? Why a 747 with such a tail and small size and 2 engines only??
I asked Google again and got from http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=96732 : "The firefly with 747 gear and fuselage. MD-11 wings and 767 engines"
Does anyone know the story of this interesting weird "aircraft"?
Well, it had a bump like a Boeing 747 but was much smaller and only one engine per wing, and with 1 jet in the tail like a DC-10... Alas I had no camera but I though "I will ask Google". I did this morning with words "old aircraft at Schipol airport" and got it! Firefly747!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8585732@N07/2373906143
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8585732@N07/2373906305
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8585732@N07/2374741262
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8585732@N07/2373905575
But! What is this??? Glazed-nose Russian Boeing? Why a 747 with such a tail and small size and 2 engines only??
I asked Google again and got from http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=96732 : "The firefly with 747 gear and fuselage. MD-11 wings and 767 engines"
Does anyone know the story of this interesting weird "aircraft"?