I’ve had it happen where a plane type was changed and they just re-did the seating
They still claim it’s a 747. My flight is in a week.
Hooray! You won’t be on the last flight, but of all the millions of folks carried by 747s hither and yon, you’ll be one of the last small percentage.
I just hope to get there and back again, honestly.
This is rather interesting. I’m also scheduled on a Lufthansa 747-400 in mid-July. It’ll be interesting to see if it will still be a 747 by then
ETA: And was on one on the way back home last summer as well. I was a bit surprised any were still operating
This will be my third time taking this flight. (Once each summer.)
I gather the 747 is very inefficient by modern standards, so the longer the Iranian war keeps going, the less likely you are to be on a 747.
I am now sitting aboard a 747-400, and boarding started nearly on time. I’m pretty sure I’m going to be flying in a 747. 
Hooray!! Lotsa pix please! 
[When I saw this thread had just been bumped with a new post, I was pretty sure it was going to be you reporting from the airport. Glad the news is happy.]
What do you want a pic of?
Anything really. It was just a matter of you memorializing the end of an era in the way that makes sense to you.
Lol, as i said up thread, I’ve never loved the 747. Too large and crowded for my tastes. And i had to evacuate one (down the emergency slides) when i was a teen, because one of the engines caught on fire. I’m hoping this trip is less memorable.
(That remains the best slide i ever went down in my life, though. Despite how rough the surface was.)
I seem to be atop the wing, this trip. Something about paying for “more space” i guess. I remember having a better view of the engines then i wonder how far forward we were sitting. I saw the flames and thick black smoke shooting out of the engine. I don’t think i could see that from this angle. Maybe i was behind. Do they go all the way across the wing?
We’ve departed, and are driving slowly towards the runways. I’ll be signing off soon. (Unless the flight offers Wi-Fi, i guess.)
No good pictures in that article, but here’s a better view. Airplanes, especially jet airliners, have usually been beautiful because they’re necessarily built in the spirit of “form follows function”. But that doesn’t always lead to beauty. This new thing looks rather ugly and ungainly, plus has to have a T-tail, which I understand are more prone to tail stalls than regular tails. But at least those engines won’t be knocking over any taxiway signs like the ground-hugging ones on the 737!
I disagree; I think it looks cool.
It looks like that because it’s an X-plane cobbled together cheaply from a retired run-out MD-80 and some various other parts of other existing airplanes. Plus the minimum amount of totally new structure needed to prove the aerodynamic point being experimented about.
There’s no way an actual production truss-braced wing airliner would look much like that. Except for the high wings and struts.
The high wings and struts look rather cool to me.
Anyway, my flight was uneventful. One of the restrooms still had an ashtray! That was one oooold jet. (I used two restrooms, the other didn’t have an ashtray.) It was in good shape, though. The seating and upholstery were fairly new. I think the overhead bins probably were, too. And of course, as best as i could tell, it flew just fine.
My return flight will also be a 747. And ugh, i think I’m allergic to every food item offered. (They all include peppers.) There are like 8 “special meals” available, and i bet i could eat one of them, but i have no clue which. (Jain, kosher, muslim, child, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free…) I guess I’d better pick up a couple sandwiches and pack them.
I think they’re still a regulatory requirement. Better there than setting the trash can on fire.
That one restroom has an ashtray? I doubt it. I haven’t seen an ashtray in an airplane restroom in ages.
In the picture, that’s not a “T-tail” in the “more prone to stall” sense. The elevators are not above the wing, they are behind the wing as on a low-elevator design, because the wings are up at the level of the tail.
Not really. The wings are at the level of the top of the fuselage = bottom of vertical fin. The horizontal tail is at the top of the vertical fin.
Now you’re right the two surfaces are closer together vertically than on the original MD-80 when the wings are at the bottom of the fuselage.