LUV field fly by!

[ILUVURBANMYERS]

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=489747

 

[capt. megadeth]

Awesome!

 

[FL000]

"Southwest xxx, check gear down."

 

[SWAnnabee]

Not very safe looking though.

 

[N1atEcon]

"Not very safe looking though."

Give me a break mom! You better go check you kids pamper for dampness.

 

[TexaSWA]

Not very safe looking though.

Yeah whatever, Sally.

 

[Paul R. Smith]

I'm sorry the diaper thing was just wrong...I hope somebody didn't quote me before I erased it.

 

[miles otoole]

Not very safe looking though.

Coming from a scarrier driver? Are you kidding?

 

[Captzaahlie]

That's One Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet Fly By !

"Not very safe looking though."

Give me a break mom! You better go check you kids pamper for dampness.

THAT'S ONE SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET FLY BY !


The above comments make me recall what I recently heard as we finished the before start checklist;

A few weeks ago I was flying with this very attractive and very cool flight attendant (read as a hottie that acts like one of the guys) who commutes as I do.......... we were just about to close my favorite part of the airplane (the cockpit door), and she playfully said, "fly fast and take lots of chances..........." (because we all had tight connections for getting home at the end of our trip) guess you had to be there for the delivery but it was pretty funny to hear this from someone riding around in the back of our airplane. It was a welcome little retort to my usual, "Have a nice flight and don't talk to any strangers comment" that I give the ladies as they close the door. Passengers within earshot generally enjoy it.

It's not work if you enjoy it......

Ps: Maybe it was a part 91 reposistion or maitenance ferry flight. Then who would care???????

 

[RideTheWind]

I have a lot of respect for SWA, and the flyby looks cool, BUT that paint job makes me want to puke, I can't be the only one, am I?

 

[SWAnnabee]

Its cool looking and I like the new paint scheme, despite what some others think. He looks about 50-75 ft agl. Yea I like seeing cool stuff but can't help to think how to explain it away if something bad had happened. That was always the litmus test I did when considering doing something in an aircraft, "...if this goes bad, do I have a leg to stand on by way of explanation." If it's operationally required, thats a different story.


Not trying to be a "sally". Just don't like to take unnecessary chances. Anyone here ever see the old Airbus footage of a low flyby...went right into the treeline and crashed. Point is you never know. ASO training and current Flight Safety Engineer, so call me a "safety Nazi" if you like.

SWA, in my opinion, is doing better than any other airline in the business. Think what a mishap would do to that. Just my opinion. Isn't there a lot of talk on other threads about the Pinnacle pilots who lost both engines while operating the plane in an unnecessary way? Yea, when everything turns out OK, you get labeled as worrying too much. Things go wrong and those same folks that were saying "cool!" now suddenly turn into Monday night quarterbacks admonishing the pilots for not acting "professional."

So again, yes the flyby looks cool, SWA has a new aircraft and company is doing well. Good luck to my friends there. Just don't do anything you might regret later. Fly safe and keep a good thing going at LUV.

 

[Captzaahlie]

The colors are obviously from the Maryland State Flag which I thought always went together pretty well....... must have something to do with the fact that I once flew for a tiny part 135 outfit called Maryland Airlines.
The link to the Indy chick wasnt bad RTW but where's her flotation devices? (don't get me wrong a great rack aint everything, but it's like a nice "tail" wind you never complain about it....................)

 

[canyonblue737]

Here are some shots when they did a low pass at BWI...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/photo/2005-06/18032000.jpg

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/859826/L/

 

[ATRedneck]

Anyone here ever see the old Airbus footage of a low flyby...went right into the treeline and crashed.

Except that this was at DAL... ain't anything at either end that anybody'd shed a tear for if a plane hit it. ...Well, except the Dr. Pepper plant and the Haggar Outlet.

How fast were they flying? Looks like they were plumb-slap clean, so they musta been truckin'.

 

[Captzaahlie]

Here are some shots when they did a low pass at BWI...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/photo/2005-06/18032000.jpg

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/859826/L/

Thanks CB,
I like that shot (#2) even better with the wings loaded. Not just the winglets are turned up, the whole wing has a gentle bend in it, just like when you are really cranking a thermal in a high performance glass sailplane.
Capt Z

 

[RideTheWind]

The colors are obviously from the Maryland State Flag which I thought always went together pretty well....... must have something to do with the fact that I once flew for a tiny part 135 outfit called Maryland Airlines.
The link to the Indy chick wasnt bad RTW but where's her flotation devices? (don't get me wrong a great rack aint everything, but it's like a nice "tail" wind you never complain about it....................)

I'll take Danica just the way she is, a nice rack is good, but not required with a hot little rear end.

And I did not know that was Maryland's colors, did some research and found it's some Lords family colors. http://www.sos.state.md.us/Services/MdFlag.htm


The design of the flag comes from the shield in the coat of arms of the Calvert family, the colonial proprietors of Maryland.

George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, adopted a coat of arms that included a shield with alternating quadrants featuring the yellow-and-black colors of his paternal family and the red-and-white colors of his maternal family, the Crosslands.

When the General Assembly in 1904 adopted a banner of this design as the state flag, a link was forged between modern-day Maryland and the very earliest chapter of the proprietorship of the Calvert family.

 

[Captzaahlie]

Tops and Bottoms, not just the yoke & peddles..........

I'll take Danica just the way she is, a nice rack is good, but not required with a hot little rear end.

And I did not know that was Maryland's colors, did some research and found it's some Lords family colors. http://www.sos.state.md.us/Services/MdFlag.htm


The design of the flag comes from the shield in the coat of arms of the Calvert family, the colonial proprietors of Maryland.

George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, adopted a coat of arms that included a shield with alternating quadrants featuring the yellow-and-black colors of his paternal family and the red-and-white colors of his maternal family, the Crosslands.

When the General Assembly in 1904 adopted a banner of this design as the state flag, a link was forged between modern-day Maryland and the very earliest chapter of the proprietorship of the Calvert family.

Don't get me wrong RTW, I have much respect for "real" racing (making turns on a track in both directions, yes I'm giving nascar a very slight slam, feeling I have the right after a little motorcycle road racing on a miniceptor during the mid 80's) and racers, espec. a chic that can cut it in a mans sport (by that I mean putting up with male egos and lack of aceptance that I'm sure she had to fight in the start) Yes she's hot but I like the full package, but thats the really great thing they come in sooooooo many unique and wonderful forms, it's all good as they say!
A sincer thanks for the history lesson, the Calverts must have been pretty influencial and or notorious folks in their day, as a major county in MD is also named after them. The coat of arms and sheild thing is pretty cool and provides some interesting art, my wife and I found this huge coat of arms print (i need to research it and find it's origin sometime) and have it hanging in the master bedroom just for the cool colors and patterns

 

[FlyBarneyJets]

How fast were they flying? Looks like they were plumb-slap clean, so they musta been truckin'.

I dunno how fast they were going, but the photo on airliners.net clearly shows a bit of flap/slat hangin' out. Flaps 5 maybe, since it doesn't look like the LED's are FULL EXT?

A guess is all.

 

[MLBWINGBORN]

Well..

A light -700 can get down to below 200 KTS clean.

Say 5000 lbs of gas and nobody on board would be a very..very light plane.

Deck angle at DAL with clean configuration would be maybe 210 in ground effect...

That low you have to push forward to keep from bouncing off of ground effect.Tends to flatten the deck angle.

Like everybody else just a guess.

Mike

 

[canyonblue737]

During the BWI pass the LED's are in the extend position, at DAL they have a clean wing. Cool stuff.