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No, I did mean 747s. Almost all 747s have been permanently retired from passenger service worldwide. It happened very quickly.
At first, for many airlines, their 747s were just temporarily mothballed due to the pandemic but almost all airlines worldwide have now decided to permanently retire them. Most airlines were planning to retire their 747s within a few years anyway but the plans have been rapidly brought forward.
See news article here for example: British Airways retires entire Boeing 747 fleet on coronavirus travel slump | Deccan Herald[^]
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Now you got us curious - It cannot be for you ; if you were at that level of remuneration, the Code project lounge is probably not the place you would come to ask for this, I am more thinking about a cigar smoke fulled room with leather sofas, old libraries with false books, and lots of people in suits.
If it is for a friend, I am not entirely sure he would take advice from a bunch of software engineers to spend a few millions.
So : what is this question ? 
/edit: if you are really seeking for advice, gulfstreams are indeed good, already owned a bunch, but I settled for a Falcon 8X two years ago.
/edit2: *cough* *cough* I really wish people would stop smoking the cigar. That book in the library looks really strange.
modified 19-Mar-21 13:18pm.
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It can't make it across the Atlantic - especially not in rough seas.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Bummer 
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A development of the Caspian Sea Monster! an 'Acranoplan'
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I'd probably choose the A-10 Warthawg.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Of course you would! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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#realJSOP wrote: A-10 Warthawg.
awesome performance, terrible gas mileage. kind of like your sportscar. 
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I'm pretty sure none of the local tree-hugging hippies are gonna give me grief over the gas mileage at the gas station when I have a 30mm gatlin gun stickin outa the nose of my private jet, when it can cut their prius clean in half with a short half-second burst. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: 30mm gatlin gun
That is a freakin' beast of a weapon.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
modified 19-Mar-21 17:59pm.
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#realJSOP wrote: the local tree-hugging hippies
I thought they'd been hunted to extinction in your neck of the woods!
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Probably the SR-71 Blackbird[^].
You know, for all those times I have to go from LA to New York in about an hour. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Not a bad choice. I remember reading a science fiction novel where an SR-71 pilot somehow managed to travel back in time to World War II. They refueled him with kerosene, IIRC. Of course the tricky thing about the SR-71 is that they only partially fueled it to start. The pilot would then fly back and forth to raise the skin temperature enough to tighten all the joins, and then they'd do final fueling from a tanker in the air.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: The pilot would then fly back and forth to raise the skin temperature enough to tighten all the joins,
I've read that they would leak like a sieve if not up to temperature. But when passing bullets like they are standing still is on the menu I could live with that!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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There's a book about the SR-71 written by one of its long-term pilots I've always meant to read, full of stories.
Software Zen: delete this;
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But be careful not to forget the obligatory speed check with LAX! 
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Are you asking for Jared Dillian[^]? He wrote about the idea of private jets for cats and apparently discussed it on his Jan 7th broadcast.
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Whatever type Bill Gates has. That way I can lecture others about reducing their carbon footprint.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Anything with Lear in the name - and I hate flying
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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My company has a few of them. I like the Hawkers. It's nice to turn a nine-hour drive into an hour-and-half flight.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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A B-2 stealth bomber.
I bet you didn't see that coming.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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One year, probably late 90s, the B2 did a flypast at the Farnborough Airshow. We had a battlefield radar (plus hopefully dummy missiles) on the ground, not too far from the runway. It DID see it coming and when the pictures were published, the Americans were none too happy by all accounts.
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Would a pillow shaped like a hammer be oddly comforting?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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