Historic BHX - Saturday 25 July 2009 - Hellenic Imperial Airways inaugural Boeing 747 scheduled service to Athens and onto Jeddah

Hellenic Imperial Airways Boeing 747-200 SX-TIE positioned in to
operate their inaugural scheduled service to Athens and onto Jeddah
making a "precision" approach landing exactly on the piano keys....
. .... before parking on Stand 85C
. . Vince Essex (left) and Tony Farmer (far right) the BHX/UK agents
where on hand to welcome Captain Angelis and the Hellenic Imperial
Airways crew to Birmingham!
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The First Officer prepares for the departure back to Athens....
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.... the upper deck of the Boeing 747 has 8 Business Class seats....
. .... while there are 450 economy seats to the main deck!!
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Time for the inaugural flight to depart - "Welcome on board!!"
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"Imperial 270 you are clear to push and start" - SX-TIE pushes
back off stand 85C for the flight back to Athens and onto Jeddah
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More photos of the inaugual hellenic flight can be seen at -

http://bhxflightguide-news.blogspot.com/2009/07/hellenic-imperial-operate-inaugural.html
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Thanks to the Operations Duty Manager for getting us in the perfect

spot for the landing and to the team at BHX for organising the visit