Getting inside a Boeing 747-400ERF

Heello there! Any relevant news on my career, we are still on the standby mode. Some weeks ago I had with a friend the opportunity to get inside a Boeing 747-400 ERF... the latest 747 model that can exist in the World. We got outside the flying monument, and a ground staff member asked the captain if we could visit them for a little while; the answer was yes! and we started climbing the stairs until we passed the main door and got inside one of the biggest airliners in the world, a "jumbo", a state of the art 7-4-7. Once inside the aircraft we climbed other stairs that take you to the second floor, there we were in a room with four business class seats and in the front it was the flight deck, I was atonished. I said hello to the copilots, the captain was almost leaving to do the walk around to the aircraft. The copilots were pretty young, they were less than thirty years old; for me it's amazing how a man of that age can have in his hands such a big airplane... there is no doubt that "Impossible is nothing". I seated in the first officer's seat, what an office! I don't have words to describe the panel. I was like in shock. The captain came later to his office, he started signing some papers and I asked him what does it feel to fly such a big airplane, he didn't say a word and put a big smile in his face. Afer some seconds he said that after flying so many types of aircraft, flying the 747 for him is like the latest step, and I think it is the latest step and probably his best step.
One of the first officers had to take his seat so I moved. They started working on the preparation for the flight. My friend and I assumed it was time to go so we thanked a lot the crew and told them good bye. Being outside the big monument you start thinking how that big airplane can overcome the gravity force and start flying through the air. Everything was big: the wings, the slats, the engines, the wheels...
We saw the airplane taking off, and once it was climbing enroute we said by the radio that we had: "au revoir, bon voyage" and the captain (he was the pilot with the most noticable french accent) responded "merci, au revoir".
It was a very nice sunday. It wasn't an "obsession" but since I was a child I was curious about going inside a 747, thanks to my friends it became real. We must remember: Never say Never.

Take care and regards from Uruapan, Mexico

Luis Enrique Borrego Lopez