747 landing. Check out the runway.

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - 747 landing. Check out the runway.

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:02:35 PM EDT

www.skypark.org/747Landing.htm

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:04:03 PM EDT

[#1]

Not the kind of runwat to inspire confidence upon landing . . .

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:04:34 PM EDT

[#2]

good pilot

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:05:39 PM EDT

[#3]

cool

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:07:11 PM EDT

[#4]

cool...look for the video of a 727 landing at Meigs field, Chicago. ( I worked on that plane when it was in service, it now resides in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.)

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:07:18 PM EDT

[#5]

There's a runway in that picture? All I see is a two-lane county road. Schnikeys!!!

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:07:41 PM EDT

[#6]

It takes a good pilot to put a 747 down on a 50 ft wide runway!

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:09:40 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
It takes a good pilot to put a 747 down on a 50 ft wide runway!

www.skypark.org/images/747Rand2.jpg

Fuck All!!!!

What's the story on this, and how were these photos taken, anyway???

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:09:56 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
It takes a good pilot to put a 747 down on a 50 ft wide runway!

www.skypark.org/images/747Rand2.jpg

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:10:35 PM EDT

[#9]

What is the story behind the pics?

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:11:23 PM EDT

[#10]

Uhh... there is a link in the original post. Might want to try that.

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:11:34 PM EDT

[#11]

that pilot has some big balls to try that!!!

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:12:09 PM EDT

[#12]

Dang where is that located?

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:12:15 PM EDT

[#13]

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:13:22 PM EDT

[#14]

B747 at the Skypark?

Nope, not yet anyway. But these pictures of a retired 747 being delivered to a museum in South Africa show it isn't that far-fetched! In reading the following, bear in mind that the Skypark's runway measures 50 feet wide by 3400 feet long.

Friday morning 5 March 2004, the retired South African Airways Boeing 747-244, ZS-SAN, "Lebombo" touched down at Rand Airport, Germiston, just outside Johannesburg.

Landing on Rwy 11, which is 49.3 feet wide, the jumbo was stopped at the intersection of Rand's cross runway, which is around 2800 feet from the Rwy 11 threshold.

Narrow and very short, too

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:14:03 PM EDT

[#15]

The very obvious hump in the runway didn't help anything either!!!!!!!

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:21:19 PM EDT

[#16]

COOL, I like the look of the stubby 200 series over the newer stretched ones.

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:22:41 PM EDT

[#17]

Amazing!

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:23:22 PM EDT

[#18]

Jo-burg. Figures.

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:50:21 PM EDT

[#19]

Oh, I'm glad I read the article. I was certain that was a US runway that had shrunken due to Bush Administration budget cuts.

Posted: 8/31/2005 8:59:38 PM EDT

[#20]

That 747 driver has some balls, any bets that he was a Naval Aviator?

Posted: 8/31/2005 9:24:23 PM EDT

[#21]

According to the details---That aircraft spent 12.5 years in the air! 107,000hrs of flight time. It used 3384 tires at a cost of about 4 million dollars, which is about twice what the entire aircraft cost new in 1971.

Posted: 8/31/2005 10:18:50 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
What's the story on this, and how were these photos taken, anyway???

I hear they were taken with a camera! Might just be speculation though....

Posted: 8/31/2005 10:26:18 PM EDT

[#23]

Interesting. He didn't want to use the reversers because he was afraid they would blow debris forward which could have entered the engine intakes. That guy has nuts.

Posted: 8/31/2005 10:27:40 PM EDT

[#24]

Cool. I like that shit....

I landed at a runway that is 15 feet wide and about 800 feet long the other day...

Posted: 8/31/2005 10:29:12 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Cool. I like that shit....

I landed at a runway that is 15 feet wide and about 800 feet long the other day...

In a 747?!?!?!

Posted: 8/31/2005 10:29:14 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
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What's the story on this, and how were these photos taken, anyway???

I hear they were taken with a camera! Might just be speculation though....

Oh, mannnnnnnn ...

Posted: 8/31/2005 10:32:40 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
That 747 driver has some balls, any bets that he was a Naval Aviator?

I think he probably was

The pilot in the article says that when:

"our Flight Engineer called 20 ft on the radio altimeter, I closed the thrust levers and planted it firmly onto the runway, aircraft carrier style."
Just like Maverick

Posted: 8/31/2005 10:34:36 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
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What's the story on this, and how were these photos taken, anyway???

I hear they were taken with a camera! Might just be speculation though....
Oh, mannnnnnnn ...

[farva]I got you good you fucker!!![/farva]

Posted: 8/31/2005 10:38:16 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
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What's the story on this, and how were these photos taken, anyway???

I hear they were taken with a camera! Might just be speculation though....
Oh, mannnnnnnn ...

[farva]I got you good you fucker!!![/farva]

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God Damn that was funny!

Posted: 9/1/2005 4:37:36 AM EDT

[#30]

That ain't nothing. Just last week I put a 777 down on a dirt road in south GA. Hell the boy lived in Valdosta, why take a plane back from Atl. when we were that close. Take off was a bitch though.

Posted: 9/1/2005 5:35:19 AM EDT

[#31]

The Pilot(s) of Air Force 1 can do some pretty spectactular shit, I know some CFI's that couldn't believe what they saw AF1 do. That guy might be in training.

Posted: 9/1/2005 5:52:13 AM EDT

[#32]

Another pic of how not to do it

Posted: 9/1/2005 5:53:52 AM EDT

[#33]

One more.

Posted: 9/1/2005 6:21:15 AM EDT

[#34]

Watching Air Force 1 land at the KC Downtown airport was quite impressive. I know the runway is plenty long enough, but the approach was basically a steep descent right over downtown KC (one that if done today, people in some of the taller buildings would have been thinking "the terrorists are doing it again"), scrape the wheels on the leveee, then the airport fence, and then plant 'em right on the numbers and stand on the brakes.

If only it'd been a worthwile president at the time (it was the scumbag clinton and his ~~bitch~~ wife) it would have been even more impressive.

Usually that airport just handles business jets and general aviation traffic, and I wasn't alive back when it handled commercial traffic.

Posted: 9/1/2005 6:28:33 AM EDT

[#35]

FOD damage?

Posted: 9/1/2005 6:33:43 AM EDT

[#36]

Posted: 9/1/2005 6:45:07 AM EDT

[#37]

Now that is a flight crew I want flying me.

Posted: 9/1/2005 6:54:49 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
That 747 driver has some balls, any bets that he was a Naval Aviator?

He did drop it from 20 feet up "carrier style". Had the FE call altitude via radio altimeter. When wheels were 20 feet off the deck, he closed the throttles and dropped it on deck.

Yep. Naval aviator. Sans tailhook.

Posted: 9/1/2005 8:59:07 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
Quoted:
That 747 driver has some balls, any bets that he was a Naval Aviator?

He did drop it from 20 feet up "carrier style". Had the FE call altitude via radio altimeter. When wheels were 20 feet off the deck, he closed the throttles and dropped it on deck.

Yep. Naval aviator. Sans tailhook.

Well technically, he just landed in a typical short field manner. Naval Aviator style would have demanded that he drove the aircraft onto the ground, then apply full power and hope he got the number 3 wire

Posted: 9/1/2005 11:20:51 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
It takes a good pilot to put a 747 down on a 50 ft wide runway!

That's one manly pilot, or maybe while he was landing the plane the co-pilot was holding his beer!

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