Qantas jumbo jet flies from Sydney to South Africa with 5 engines as airline deploys rarely-used transportation method
Passengers aboard a recent
international flight would have been forgiven if they thought they were
in for an extra-fast trip when they saw a fifth engine attached to the
plane.
But airline Qantas had decided to use one of its Boeing 747 aircraft to transport a new Rolls Royce engine from Sydney to Johannesburg, South Africa, to replace one on another plane which had problems.
The
method of attaching an extra, nonoperational engine to a wing of the
plane may seem unconventional, but the rarely used technique was deemed
to be the most efficient way to transport the large spare part.
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