Lou did you ever fly the 747-SP?

Just reading about the 2 that Qantas owned. They were actually purchased to tackle New Zealands (Wellington?) short runway of ~6000ft.

Then they mostly flew SYD/MEL-SFO/LAX nonstop.
One interesting fact I knew nothing about was they could get up to 45,000. More routine was 43,000

AFAIK VH-EAA and VH-EAB were the only RB211 powered SP's built.