Boeing SP 747 to Rand

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Postby RV4ker (RIP) » Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:19 pm

Someone make vid please. Gonna miss it. :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
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Postby Morph » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:44 am

I don't know if it is just me but....... A 747 does not appeal to me at all. I have no interest in seeing one in a museum. It's not like a tiger moth, or a Spitfire, or a Shackleton, or a Lancaster etc etc. Give me propellers, that lovely drone of those Rolls Royce Merlin engines over a boring Boeing 747 any day.

When I was a kid I built plastic aircraft models. The ones that stayed in the box were all the commercial jets. The only exception was the Concorde, which I have flown in by the way 8) . Not bragging or anything mind you
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Postby RV4ker (RIP) » Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:45 am

Agreed Morph, but it awesome to see it land on a runway that is barely big enough to hold U/C. It was awesome to see the lsat one arrive. More for the shee size and precision (sp?) flying required to get it down. Remeber that once committed to land they can't go around as runway is too short or so i am told.... :wink:
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Postby Arnulf » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:15 am

Ahhh, what a beauty it was. 2 x practice approaches, and then the landing.
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Postby Arnulf » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:16 am

Finger trouble :oops: :oops:
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Postby Arnulf » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:03 pm

Got pics, however too daft to post them :oops: :oops: . That what the "finger trouble" post is all about :evil: :evil: . I know there is a "how to do it" in the forum, but am at the moment too busy to check it out. In the mean time I e-mailed the pics to Morph. Unicorn made a nice video of the landing.

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Postby Arnulf » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:10 pm

Hi Demon,

I sent you some pics per e-mail, obviously not of such high quality like those on AVCOM ^*^^ ^*^^
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Postby cobra » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:00 pm

Video link from Avcom
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Here is just the landing part in small downloadable format (4mb)

Wind was 360/8 which gives them a 3kt x-wind. You can see lots of rudder stomping on touchdown Awesome landing though!!!

http://hagar.up.ac.za/christo/landing.avi
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Postby The Agent » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:42 am

Rand Rand I want to land.
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Postby Morph » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:04 am

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Here are Arnulf's pics
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Postby Morph » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:07 am

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Postby Arnulf » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:44 pm

Thanks Morph :!: ^*^^ ^*^^ ^*^^
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Postby RudiGreyling » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:14 am

Guess who flew there?
Die manne van staal van Ama-Boing-Boing (SPRINGS!)

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Postby Thunderboy » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:45 am

Did any of you experience radio static just outside the airfield?
Had terrible static both in and out just on the outskirts of the airfield could not hear ATC at all untill we were on downwind??
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