747 Guys!

[Old School 737]

What is the min runway width to turn the 747-300 around? Thanks.

 

[CSY Mon]

154 feet..unless ya have a heavy foot and a strong throttle hand.

Most if not all rwys advertised for the 747 have a bubble at the end..So as to turn, unless they have taxi-ways to parallel back.

 

[Old School 737]

Dam, then how did Airforce One land in EKO today and taxi to the ramp? I used to fly a 737 in there and thought that could be interesting at times but to take a 747 in there??? Look out!!

 

[CSY Mon]

Dam, then how did Airforce One land in EKO today and taxi to the ramp? I used to fly a 737 in there and thought that could be interesting at times but to take a 747 in there??? Look out!!

As a brand new captain on the B-747 with 16 hours in the left seat, they sent me to Split. (Croatia)
Also a B-737 airport..More like Herc-Port actually.

I managed to turn the beast after landing but saw wheel tracks in the grass as I back-taxied the little runway.
It was also a VIP flight with hundreds of citizens and dignitaries watching the landing and taxing to the ramp, applauding as we shut down.

Don't remember what the width of the runway was back then in 1996, but it took a lot of outboard power and inboard brakes to turn the plane as I went the wrong way:

Instead of putting the nose wheel in the bubble, I tried to muscle the maingear in there....Not a good idea.

Taxing back for T/O after a few hours of ground time, I noticed that one of the runway lights in the grass had a tire track on each side of it...Only a foot clearance between the tires and the light was right in the middle of that foot, perfectly unharmed.
Only the fools and the lucky ones.........

 

[fareview]

What is the min runway width to turn the 747-300 around? Thanks.

on the 744..absolute minimum turn radius is 149' (wingtip) ..tail is 141...our sop's state 153' minimum required

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[big pimpn']

on the 744..absolute minimum turn radius is 149' (wingtip) ..tail is 141...our sop's state 153' minimum required

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744s turn radius is better than the DC-8, 71. We only get 151 FT 6 IN.

 

[B-atch]

It's all in the BODY GEAR STEERING....I suspect that AF1's body gear steers past the 14 degrees of a regular whale..

 

[Old School 737]

I found out that AF1 landed on RW 5 pulled into the ramp area and parked. When it was time to leave they made a right turnout toward RW 23 and departed therefore solving the problem of turing around on the RW, they didn't.