What is the point of the Boeing 747 SP?

Answer 1

The Boeing 747 SP was a lot lighter than the orignal 747 and was able to carry a lot more fuel. It was the longest range airliner in the world before the A340-600.

The new 747s have more fuel efficient engines, can carry more fuel (and passengers), and are lighter empty so the 747 SP became obsolete.

Answer 2

Here it is from Wikipedia:
The 747SP was a shortened version of the 747-100. It was introduced into service in 1976 with Pan AM. Apart from the upcoming 747-8 the SP is the only 747 with a modified length fuselage. It was designed to fly higher, faster, and longer than the 747-100. Boeing hoped that the abilities of the SP would compete and take orders from the Douglas DC-10 and create a niche market, however in the end only a total of 45 were built.

As at August 2006 a total of 13 Boeing 747SP aircraft were in airline service with South African Airways (1), Iran Air (1), Iraqi Airways (2), Kinshasa Airways (1), Palace Air (1), Saudi Arabian Airlines (1), Syrian Arab Airlines (2) and Transatlantic International Airlines (2).[21]

The sole remaining South African Airways 747SP - the "Maluti" - was decommissioned on 30 September 2006 with a final flight to Rand Airport where it will remain on show as a static display/museum aircraft. (This final transport flight was the aircraft's first flight in three years.)

Answer 3

The Boeing 747SP was an aircraft that was shorter than the 747 but was able to fly a farther range. The wingspan was the same length as the 747 but the tail was a little higher. The cruising speed was a little faster too. However the number of passengers that could be seated in the SP was fewer than the 747. I know that Pan Am used them a lot and when they sold their Pacific routes to Asia, United Airlines started using them. South African Airways also used them on long range routes.

Right now the 777 LR and the A340-500 both have super long range capabilities.

Answer 4

The 747 SP is an outdated model that has been replaced with a more fuel efficient engine configuration. Do a Yahoo search on Boeing 747 SP and all your questions will be answered.

Answer 5

It was the 747 GTi, shorter lighter fuselarge than the -200, yet the same engines, and wings which gave better rate of climb, and acceleration, although not top speed as this is mach limited and enabled a range of 8000 plus miles with passengers, however the later full length - 400 with more fuel efficient engines has now taken on the mantle of ultra long range 747 by flying London Sydey non stop, over 9000 miles

Answer 6

The Boeing 747 SP was made to serve markets that did not have adequate passenger flow to neccesitate the use of the larger 747.

Answer 7

The 747SP is a shorter version of the 747-200/100. It also has a longer vertical tailfin and simplified flaps (1 piece as opposed to the other 747s triple slotted flaps) and was first offered to customers in 1974 to fill in the niche of ultra long haul (also known as lon-rang 'thin' routes) routes, at the expense of passenger capacity. It has been superseded by the 747-400 in 1989, and is no longer in production. It is very rare to see one in commercial use nowadays, though most are now for corporate, not commercial use (for example, as business jets).

Answer 8

Having the same wing and engines as the 747-200, but beinh much shorter, the SP (Special Performance) was much lichter, which made is capable of flying faster, higher and travel much greater distances as compared to the other airliners at the time.

It is a very popular aircraft amongst some aviation enthousiast. It even has a website dedicated to it.

http://www.747sp.com/

Answer 9

It was a great version of the 747 taht catered for smaller passenger loads and better performance.

Answer 10

No, that's not a valid assessment. a extra effective anaolgy is to think of hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands of junkyards, by way of which you deliver your tornadoes. After the tornadoes have undergone, you heavily sift in the process the keeps to be searching for something that resembles any assembled areas of a 747; in case you detect such a factor, you preserve it - in any different case, you disassemble what you detect. then you definitely deliver the tornadoes by way of returned, and repeat the completed technique. hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands of circumstances. ultimately, you will finally end up with something that seems lots like a 747. > "i'd possibly on no account say that intelligence could no longer produce a 747 - it, infact, has. in accordance to argument #8 an smart standards with a objective in ideas became utilized to the information decision. chemical compounds did no longer merely decide for at some point "oh does no longer or no longer that's great if I coud reproduce, or synthesize protein... i be responsive to i will keep a thank you to do it!" " No smart enter is needed: merely exterior selective tension. Even interior the abiotic stew, molecules which could self-mirror will come to predominate because of the fact no longer the rest is self-replicating. > "As an analogy, evaluate the 13-letter series "TOBEORNOTTOBE." those hypothetical million monkeys, each and every pecking out one word a 2nd, ought to take as long as seventy 8,800 years to discover it between the 2613 sequences of that length. yet interior the Nineteen Eighties Richard Hardison of Glendale college wrote a working laptop or pc application that generated words randomly on the same time as keeping the positions of individual letters that occurred to be properly placed (in effect, finding out on for words extra like Hamlet's). On common, this gadget re-created the word in merely 336 iterations, under ninety seconds." And it is *precisely* the comparable as my 747 version above. Randome events (mutations or tornadoes) produce new characteristics. yet *directed* events (selective tension, or you searching for 747-like areas) decide for what gets retained and what gets junked.