Nose door addict

05 Jul 2026

There are not that many things I can watch over and over again. One of it - openeing and closing of 747 nose-door. That’s the moment when Queen of the skies is getting hungry or smiles at you (depending on the viewing angle). Nurdy fact - thanks to the nose door, loading and offloading of the main-deck cargo can be done faster and it also allows to load and offload extremly long pieces: technically a cargo can be as long as the main deck - 50 meter and as wide as 3.8m.

747-400F Nose door open
747-400F Nose door open

Quick cockpit glimpse as we approach thunderstorms area over MIA.

Cockpit radar view
Cockpit radar view

And back to the pax seat.

Isle seat view on the uppder deck
Isle seat view on the uppder deck
Normal window view
Normal window view

country: USA ; tags: Avia ; year: 2025