“This is it! This is them! WAVE!!!”

A couple of work colleagues and I went to the best viewing point of the airport, the 8th level of the International Airport Car Park, to witness today’s arrival of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate, and baby Prince George to Sydney. Us three loyal subjects of Her Majesty, The Queen, waved passionately  at the Royal Australian Air Force Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) carrying her Grandchild and Great Grandchild as it landed at 2.29pm this afternoon. We were not the only ones there , there was one other person, a photographer with a spiffy camera and and telephoto lens but he didn’t wave

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The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, 2nd in line to the British throne, his wife Duchess of Cambridge and their 9 month old son Prince George arrived on board a Royal Australian Air Force Boeing Business Jet from Auckland for the start of a 9 day tour in Australia. The aircraft, one of two operated by Number 34 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force as a ‘Special Purpose Aircraft in accordance with Commonwealth Government Guidelines for the Use of Special Purpose Aircraft to transport Entitled Persons to meet their official commitments’*

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With seating for 30 dignitaries the Boeing 737 BBJ is a hybrid of the 737-700 fuselage and the 737-800 wings and landing gear. The Pilot and co-pilot with up to four cabin crew can operate the aircraft at up to 41,000 ft travelling for up for 11,390 kilometres, easily travelling from Sydney to Singapore, Honolulu or Mumbai. The couple and their son have been on a few varieties of aircraft since their arrival in the Southern Hemisphere for their first Royal Tour as a family, firstly a in First Class on board Qantas Airbus A380 where they transited to a Royal New Zealand Air Force Boeing 757-200.

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As the aircraft continued to taxi to the VIP arrival area on the other side of the airport, we wondered if they had seen us on top of the airport car park waving fervently, when suddenly it dawned on us, we were on the right hand side of the aircraft, on the left was the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Skyline and no doubt thats what they were looking at….perhaps someone royal saw us.. Prince George?

Welcome to Australia your Royal Highness’s! 

*from http://www.airforce.gov,au