How many Rollers will fit in a Boeing 747 of KLM?

Posted on 06-04-2016 at 22:03 by nicolasr – 37 Comments”

Just as much as in the garage of a large villa, and I could already say.

Last month was a party at Schiphol, both for the car – if vliegtuigspotter! And not only for them, also for the pilots of these Jumbo was a special day. That got a nice surprise when they were in their briefing, were told what they were transporting. There had to be a set of Rolls-royce cars from Amsterdam to Johannesburg. 8 pieces in total, total value over 4.5 million euro. That is not a problem, in the belly of a Jumbo fit easily 13 Phantoms is large enough. And since there are not only Phantoms went along, but also Ghosts, Wraiths and the new Dawn, are you sure that it fitted.

The precious cargo began its journey in England, at the factory in Goodwood. There were the eight ‘bespoke’ Rollers were just put together for a nice meeting in South Africa. The cars are then on the truck loaded and to the airport drove. Incidentally, should cars not be loaded. First of all, the petrol tank must not be for more than a quarter are filled, and second, the batteries must be disconnected to prevent sparks. When that was done, they were on pallets, loaded and off the belly of the flying machine retracted. Just as easy.

The cars were designed for a press conference in Stellenbosch, where a bunch of very lucky journalists there are allowed to frolic. Unfortunately this was not a simple blogger, who just about allowed to write. But oh well, that’s pretty nice actually!

In the gallery are some additional pictures of this particular scene.

Gallery: Rolls-Royce combo in KLM Boeing

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