B747SP PAA at Sydney, 1978
B747SP-PA-N57PA-RR-CT-1978
Originally uploaded by gtveloce
Unintended consequences. I was standing at Sydney Airport back in 1978, analog Pentax in hand, loaded with Ektachrome, and took a shot of this Pan Am 747SP. Big deal? Well, maybe...
Because time marches on and things change, even the innocuous can take on new meaning. For example it's an SP, not your regular Jumbo. And Pan Am itself went bust. And in the background I have captured Sydney's skyline, as it was. In fact Sydney's tallest structure, Sydney Tower is caught here under construction. Now I didn't mean to get it into shot - OK, I probably did think about the background to some degree - but it was nice to get that slice of history in there. Otherwise it would be just another boring old 'plane shot.
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