A Jumbo jet normally covers 12.5 kilometers in less than a minute, but City of Bangkok’s epic final journey from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport was anything but ordinary, with a flightpath crossing 17 ditches, highway A9 and one provincial road.
In fact this 12.5-kilometer journey, which attracted worldwide media attention, took five days as the jet, strapped to the back of a massive Mammoet transporter, inched its way towards its final touchdown … in the garden of the Corendon Village Hotel in Badhoevdorp.
Corendon’s Jumbo jet sets off on its final journey from Schiphol Airport
City of Bangkok’s final journey through Amsterdam to Corendon Village Hotel, above and below
The Jumbo, measuring 64m wide, 71m long and weighing 160 tons, will be converted into a 5D experience later this year which will allow visitors to walk on, over or under the plane and visit places that not normally accessible to the public.
Their journey through the history of aviation will lead them from the first serious flight attempts at the beginning of the 20th century to the development of the Boeing 747, with the highlight being a 5D experience of flying in all its facets.
Corendon founder Atilay Uslu had booked the room in the hotel where, if everything went to plan, the nose of the Boeing would be placed in front of his window late Saturday night (9 February).
The might Jumbo jet is manoeuvred into position at the Corendon Village Hotel
“When I opened the curtains this morning, I saw her in full glory,” he said. “I realised that after months of preparation we really had succeeded in getting the plane to its final place. It takes your breath away.”
