B747 lands on 49 foot wide runway

[JimNtexas]

This is a pretty interesting little article.

 

[A1FlyBoy]

Seeing a 747 on approach to landing never gets old. Sorry to see the bird retire. A truly amazing aircraft.

 

[b757driver]

Saw the very same pictures about 4 months ago from a different source on the internet. Impressive.

 

[Master Shake]

Impressive

 

[avbug]

Same thing was all over the internet about a year ago. I stopped through Flight Safety last October and it was posted on a wall.

 

[Swass]

Same thing was all over the internet about a year ago. I stopped through Flight Safety last October and it was posted on a wall.

Doesn't make it any less of an incredible landing.

 

[avbug]

I guess. It's all in perspective. We regularly used narrow small runways for large airplanes doing fire operations. Regardless of the runway, we generally used all of it. The idea of putting a large airpalne into a small place isn't earth shattering...taking off again is a whole lot more interesting...especially when the climb gradient that interests you isn't measured in degrees, but in whatever takes to clear powerlines and television antennaes, and keep clear of them on the way to the fire. It's all in the perspective.

A few years ago I was in Lake City, FL, on a fire. A DC-9 was just being made ready to go back on the line, and when the crew departed, they started their turn somewhere between two and four hundred feet, and banked about thirty degrees as they turned on course. Someone associated with their operation nearby whistled, and said something to the effect of, "Those boys really know how to play when they're not being watched, don't they? Wow."

If life ever gets to the point where that represents excitement and something unusual, just kill me.

It's all perspective.

 

[Swass]

Avbug,
How much does it cost you in fuel to have that dumptruck follow you around carrying your enormous brass balls? You must be the baddest man on the planet. Arrogant ---hole. Stop talking down to everybody; we get it already, you are the end all be all of pilots, engineers, cops, parachutists, mechanics and whatever else is the current topic of discussion.

Man it sure must feel great to have forgotten more than anybody else has ever known.

Rant over, sorry 'bout that.

 

[avbug]

I can always count on you for your professionalism...at least you're consistent.

One doesn't require big, enormous brass balls to do one's job...but then that's the point, isn't it? Nothing spectacular. No ticker tape parades. NO grand oooh's and aaaah's. Just doing one's job. Again, a matter of perspective.

Your rant is not at all over, and no, you're not sorry about that. You've been on that rant for months now, a year now...however long you've been posting here has just about been the same amount of time you've been on that rant. I suspect it's far from over, and am quite certain you'll never be sorry for the fact. Sarcasm is your life, and more's the pity.

the B747 is an impressive airplane no matter how it's seen; landing, taking off, or sitting quietly on the tarmac. It's one of those designs, like the Gulfstream 5, the F4 Phantom, and even the Concorde, that's timeless, perfect in it's lines, and purely of it's own accord, beautiful. That's my opinion, but then again I say the same thing about the C-97 and the Skycrane. The big boeing is just plain beautiful.

I don't know that I'd call getting it landed as deeply impressive, however. It's a beautiful sight no matter where it is. A high performance landing is just that, and it should be a matter of routine capability for the crew of any aircraft, big or small. That few seldom do it might make it remarkable in some way is a matter of opinion, and one with which I disagree. No big dump trucks required for that, mate.


--incidentally, I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an engineer (fire and flight engineer yes...mechanical engineer, no). I don't believe I've ever made any claims to the contrary, but thanks for throwing that falsehood in, anyway...

 

[Gulfstream 200]

Avbug,
How much does it cost you in fuel to have that dumptruck follow you around carrying your enormous brass balls? You must be the baddest man on the planet. Arrogant ---hole. Stop talking down to everybody; we get it already, you are the end all be all of pilots, engineers, cops, parachutists, mechanics and whatever else is the current topic of discussion.

Man it sure must feel great to have forgotten more than anybody else has ever known.

Rant over, sorry 'bout that.

C'mon Swass...take it easy....you're gonna blow a gasket..it's cyberspace.

plus when your boss comes by your cubicle and find you surfin flightinfo.com dreaming about being a pilot again he's going to be very pisssed off at you and biatch slap you all over the office.

.

Otherwise, how ya been?

 

[Swass]

That's the prototypical response I expected Avlegend. Keep it coming, your legion of fans is waiting.

The engineer statement was made in jest, as you speak like you know more than the designers of the airplanes themselves.

G200, you know you are still my favorite. Punk.

 

[A Squared]

That's my opinion, but then again I say the same thing about the C-97 and the Skycrane....

Sorry, you've just lost all credibility with me ... anyone who considers the C-97 beautiful is either terminally myopic, hopelessly and irrrevocably deranged, or more likely, both.

 

[avbug]

Anything with 4360's is beautiful. Except possibly the C-124. That was a three story building with stub wings. But made a beautiful sound. I thought the 377/C-97 was one of the most beautiful designs built. It's just graceful, and a wonder in flight. Even if it did catch fire a lot.

The 4360 itself is beautiful, unless you have to work on it.

Then it sucks.

 

[comander]

I trained this captain, to do this type of landing on this type of aircraft, I knew he could do it since I did it first, 3 years ago in a small runway at the edge of the moon.

 

[comander]

oooops ,sorry for that is just that this wine is making me a little bit...drunk