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Read it drops 5 knots when you pull the trigger to the canon.

With the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 boasting about their carbon composite materials I am not sure you can call it heavy metal stuff anymore

Some more angles to look at which also includes freight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_largest_airlines

"Vleisbom" as we used to call them

From what I have gathered SAA uses the bigger Aircraft that would typically fly over night to overseas destination during the day to shuttle between CPT and JHB. At least the aircraft is not parked on the ground and not earning money. When still living in SA I would try and book my business flights at such a time of day that I would fly on the A330 or A340 to Cape Town. The bigger aircraft are normally not that cramped wrt leg space.

I think the whole Lufthansa Cargo fleet is MD11's. There should be one popping in at ORT quite often.

737 and 747. Airbus it would be A318, A319, A320, A330, A340 (300 and 600) and A380.

Last year the new Lufthansa Livery was introduced. As time goes all aircraft will be repainted. I very much like the new livery.

An A319 left the paintshop yesterday with new retro livery but i have not seen it yet.

It took a bit of time to reverse out of there. The German pilots were less than pleased about the whole thing.

Nope. I do however remember the fiasco when shortly after Mafikeng Airport got International status. They were a divertion airport for ORT. So on one good morning the ILS was having problems and there was fog on ORT. A Lufthansa 747 was diverted to Mafikeng. Due to a communication problem between the pilots and the ground control at Mafikeng the 747 parked at a wrong spot fairly close to a lampost. Now nobody got get off the plane ... because the only staircase big enough for the 747 was broken. So they all sit and wait for the all clear at ORT. When that came, the Pilots requested a push back. Ooops the only tractor is kaputt. So now you have this 747 park meters away from a lampost and nothing to push them back. They had to use reverse thrust and burnt quite a few liters of fuel to get out of there.

We should have a Wall of Remembrance here on the Hub. Quite a few who have passed on in the last couple of years.

Won't be able to give you a constructive nor usefull answer but the weathersa website is in my opinion actually a sad story. 6+ years ago you could access the weather radar images of the whole SA and keep an eye on the weather. It was real time and no fuss. Then somewhere along the line the smelt money and changed the website and you had to pay bucketloads of money get to those images. The site went pretty much south from then on.

When I read that I was just smiling. My old Employer and one of my old clients. I am so freaking glad I do not have to deal with BS now.

That is actually a big problem here as well. We are surrounded by quite a few natural forests and these trees take quite a beating between storms winds and heavy snowfall.

Now I feel old thank you.

Ok. Actually now you guys made me remember that show. Completely forgot about that one. I just started cycling and me and a friend of mine went there with our bikes to save the feet a bit.

If I remember correctly it was flown by a woman as well.

There was only one air show where those birds were there all together .... 1995. The 75th birthday celebration of the SAAF. I still remember it very well as I just started to work in IT and wanted to take leave for the air show but did not have any leave built up yet.

I still remember quite a bit of that first flight. We flew on the 747SP from Joburg around Africa to Madrid, then Zurich and then the last hop to Vienna. The last hop was the coolest as the aircraft was at most a third of the passengers still onboard as all the rest got off in Madrid and Zurich. It was an hour of running around the plane and checking out views from different windows. The funny part was landing in Vienna as I was taken off the plane first by ground crew. They took me directly to the arrivals terminal to meet my grandma. So as I got the arrivals there was a huge glas panel/wall with people behind it, and the guy told me ... who is you grandma. Problem is I saw my grandma the last time as I was 5. The first thing that crossed my mind was "O fark". Luckily a small old lady came running from the side shouting my name. I told the guy that I think that is my grandma.

I noticed that and always wondered why. Thanks for that info.

My first ever flight was at age 9. Went to visit my Grandmother on my own in Austria.

RIP

I actually looked but did not recognise the flag

We had the G8 summit not far from where we live (50 odd km) in the Alps not long after we came to Germany. For pretty much a week I had a air show over my house with loads of military aircraft flying over our house. Even F16's.