That's Just Plane Rude

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Maximum Respect to this guy...

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[Mad Doug Biker]

And then, there is the greatest of all, Princess Juliana Airport in Sint Maarten, complete with probably the very best '747 livery ever, KLM!:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

The KLM livery truly is Iconic, and long may it last! (Inflight 200 released a couple of 1:200 Diecast models of the 747 400 in this livery <KLM and KLM Asia> last year and it sold out faster than hotcakes at McDonalds).

 

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I have been on a Britten Norman Islander where you can see out the front when landing in a severe crosswind - I could see the runway looming towards us from my side window!

Anyway, here is the most insanest Airport ever!:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=3PCOcyt7BPI

I wonder, if you were staying there, how long it would take before you didn't duck every time a plane came over those streets. Jeez, I don't think I've seen planes that seemed that low, even driving past Heathrow on the motorway.

We all tend to have the feeling that fighter pilots are glamorous and top rank, but mostly it's only them in danger. Imagine trying to pull off those crosswind landings, in a plane not designed for nippiness, with 500+ people's lives in your hands. Top marks to them.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I wonder, if you were staying there, how long it would take before you didn't duck every time a plane came over those streets. Jeez, I don't think I've seen planes that seemed that low, even driving past Heathrow on the motorway.

We all tend to have the feeling that fighter pilots are glamorous and top rank, but mostly it's only them in danger. Imagine trying to pull off those crosswind landings, in a plane not designed for nippiness, with 500+ people's lives in your hands. Top marks to them.

Ah, you see, Lightnings aren't the be all and end of everything you know! That footage of the Korean '747 wobbling about from about 32 seconds onwards is one of the all time classic shots when it comes to landings and Kai Tak.

Anyway. '747s are remarkable graceful creatures. This is a 747 SP (I think):

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=rXJuXOC4AKw

 

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I have been on a Britten Norman Islander where you can see out the front when landing in a severe crosswind - I could see the runway looming towards us from my side window!

Anyway, here is the most insanest Airport ever!:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=3PCOcyt7BPI

That clip of the Korean 747 landing is quite famous. Some eagle eyed aviation fan pointed out that it wasn't a cross-wind landing, just a crap approach by the pilot. 35 seconds in from the start of the clip, you can see a rather limp wind sock by the side of the runway...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That clip of the Korean 747 landing is quite famous. Some eagle eyed aviation fan pointed out that it wasn't a cross-wind landing, just a crap approach by the pilot. 35 seconds in from the start of the clip, you can see a rather limp wind sock by the side of the runway...

WHATEVER!!

Actually, I have never really looked at it closely enough, I just assumed that that is what it was

 

[MacB]

That clip of the Korean 747 landing is quite famous. Some eagle eyed aviation fan pointed out that it wasn't a cross-wind landing, just a crap approach by the pilot. 35 seconds in from the start of the clip, you can see a rather limp wind sock planespotter by the side of the runway...

FTFY

 

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FTFY

Very good!

 

[661-Pete]

I fancy this oldie bears re-telling:

The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them.
So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.
Speedbird 206: " Frankfurt , Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."
The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- and I didn't land."

IGMC

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

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[Mad Doug Biker]

'She rolls! ................forty five knots ...ninety ...........one hundred and thirty five .......nose comes up to twenty degrees she's airbourne ..........she flies!'

RIP The Queen Of The Skies.

Need I say anything more?:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Ro3QVMCG-aY

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agtwJmJiVZ0&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL


http://www.youtube.c...n_order&list=UL

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And here is France's OTHER jet airliner creation (and rival of the Comet) in this slightly barmy, but oddly charming little film.

Of note, the tail was so cool that it couldn't be bothered stopping where all the other tails did and continued halfway along the roof in the form of a ridge!:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

And historically important:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

My my, they actually wrote a song for them, 'The Caravelle Samba'!
http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

 

[Archie_tect]

This is getting obsessive....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I know, someone help, me please!

 

[bauldbairn]

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I did it like this:

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Several of my old "Coyotes Scooter Club" mates in the late 80's early 90's were "Radar Mechanics" in that plant at South Gyle, Edinburgh - didn't realise the Lightning wasn't there anymore - what a shame!!!

I used to repair equipment for several factories in Sitehill(just behind GE Ferranti) and drove by it(deliberately) many times a week.




There's a full sized replica "Spitfire" being erected in Grangemouth as a memorial to the many pilots who lost there lives around our town learning to fly them during WWII.