I’ve been watching a lot of Top Gear over the past few weeks. Sitting in the background of some shots is a 747. Cars and planes – fantastic!
In earlier episodes, it has no engines, which isn’t unusual. Turbofans are expensive and full of spare parts, so they’re often removed from decommissioned aircraft. In later episodes, the 747 suddenly sprouted engines – peculiar engines! Take a look at this clip, which has the boys towing all kinds of stuff around the airport, including the big plane.
It turns out that the Top Gear 747 is James Bond’s 747, and also appeared in a VW publicity stunt.
PS: Here’s my map of the Top Gear track, which comes in handy for watching power laps, or figuring out which corner Dumbledore failed to take.
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Nice map Alan! I'll be watching the repeats with renewed interested to check on the location -- and engine status -- of the 747.
Nice one Alan.
You should submit it to googlesightseeing.com: http://googlesightseeing.com/suggest/
If you like Top Gear then you should also check out Oz and James' Big Wine Adventure - http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/tv_and_radio/wineadventure_index.shtml - v funny. Its currently showing on the Lifestyle Channel on Friday nights.
Foxtel should have me on commission ;-)