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Qantas Boeing 747 jumbo jet retirement: Why we love planes so much – Traveller
No one cries about aeroplanes, right? Wrong.
I was joking about the tears. When I posted a few photos last week from the farewell event Qantas held for its last ever Boeing 747, as the big bird set off towards the Mojave Desert, I mentioned with my tongue somewhere near my cheek that a few tears were probably shed as it taxied out to the runway.
No one cries about aeroplanes, right?
But then people agreed with me. They had been crying. Onlookers had blubbed, several times. Seeing that signature red tail with the white kangaroo, that unmi…
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