Jumbo Jet at Top Gear Track

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  22/02/11 - 19:40 #2

  woolybully wrote: »

  Does anyone have any info/pictures of the jumbo jet at the Top Gear track? We see this every week and I often wonder why it's there.It has very unusual double engines that I've never seen before.I think I read somewhere that it was used in a James Bond movie but I don't know which one,I think it was also used in an episode of "Primeval" other than that it's a mystery aircraft.

  
  Its a Boeing 747 isn't it? Ex Air Atlanta Europe, IIRC. Its been used in Casino Royale, one of the Batman films, Da Vinci Code and all sorts of TV work. I

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  22/02/11 - 20:11 #3

  http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0297.shtml
  
  It's an ex-BA jumbo that had its engines modified for Casino Royale as DFI stated.
  
  It's owned by Aces Aviation

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  lgwcm Posts: 33

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  22/02/11 - 20:34 #4

  here she is in here hay day http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&keywords=G-BDXJ&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=15&daterange=&range=&thumbnails=&engine_version=6.0

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  woolybully Posts: 152

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  23/02/11 - 19:48 #5

  Thanks for all your replys guys,it's a mystery aircraft no more.great stuff.

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  23/02/11 - 19:56 #6

  Nice pic of it on wikipedia
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-BDXJ

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  ClarkF1 Posts: 6,587

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  24/02/11 - 08:28 #7

  Thanks for the info.
  
  I assumed it was there for cabin crew training. Never occurred to me it's use as a TV/Film prop.

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  mike65 Posts: 11,386

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  24/02/11 - 10:36 #8

  The last ever Top Gear will see that plane meet its end I'm sure.

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  24/02/11 - 13:58 #9

  Top Gear have used it as a prop themselves when they did the episode featuring tractors.
  
  It also serves as a good advert as it's always in the background on test laps with Dunsfold Park written on the side.

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  24/02/11 - 14:04 #10

  orchover wrote: »

  Nice pic of it on wikipedia
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-BDXJ

  
  Wondering if that's the Stig or Clarkson in the car[Ferrari?]?

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