For the aviation fans

[Spokey]

Brave pilot and camera man

https://youtu.be/aYp2KoYCwSg

This strip is so similar to a place I used to fly to regularly in Cameroon around 20 years ago. The aeroplane although a piston twin was hardly more appropriate than this little jet. A Piper PA31 Chieftain was the ride back then. Cut deep in the forest in the east of the country, the short, and often muddy strip was surrounded by hundred foot tall trees.

Challenging times!

[Long Wheel Base]

Hahahaha

Having been partial to the requirements needed for the perimeter wall whilst I was still working for ACSA, I will not risk it at all.

 

I don’t think they implemented it, but one of the initial requirements was an early warning system that would go off if anyone was within 3m of the wall.

I used to work on the apron, Moved to the workshops in 2012 but when I was working there they had the signs on both sides of the fence/wall saying keep 3m away but there is one part where the vehicle road and pedestrian walkway going from Echo bay to Fox bay where it is RIGHT next to the wall. They would have had an issue there.

[The Ouzo]

But when someone says runway 03R or 03L or maybe 03C, then you’ll know what they mean, and much more.

It was an informative video. Some of the stuff I had already assumed during my travels but good to know I assumed right, others I did not know.

[Bonus]

Earlier in the week I posted about an Air Canada flight that blew a tyre on takeoff from Madrid and was circling for quite some time before landing again safely.

 

The Spanish Air force sent an F-18 up to help the Boeing 767 Pilot assess the situation. He got pretty close and took some nice pics of the damage and sent them to the pilot and the people on the ground.

 

 

 

"These are the photos taken by the Spanish Air Force F-18 (Capitán Macías) showing the damage on Air Canada's 767-300ER, flight #AC837.‬"

 

 

 

[RoddieJ]

Earlier in the week I posted about an Air Canada flight that blew a tyre on takeoff from Madrid and was circling for quite some time before landing again safely.

 

The Spanish Air force sent an F-18 up to help the Boeing 767 Pilot assess the situation. He got pretty close and took some nice pics of the damage and sent them to the pilot and the people on the ground.

 

 

 

"These are the photos taken by the Spanish Air Force F-18 (Capitán Macías) showing the damage on Air Canada's 767-300ER, flight #AC837.‬"

 

Brilliant [emoji1419]

[Patchelicious]

Earlier in the week I posted about an Air Canada flight that blew a tyre on takeoff from Madrid and was circling for quite some time before landing again safely.

 

The Spanish Air force sent an F-18 up to help the Boeing 767 Pilot assess the situation. He got pretty close and took some nice pics of the damage and sent them to the pilot and the people on the ground.

 

 

 

"These are the photos taken by the Spanish Air Force F-18 (Capitán Macías) showing the damage on Air Canada's 767-300ER, flight #AC837.‬"

It would be even cooler if that 767 was inverted ???? Edited February 8, 2020 by Patchelicious

[Kranswurm]

Brave pilot and camera man

 

Reminds me of the strips around Botswana.Twice into Delta Camp where they clear the ellies and giraffes before you can land

[MrJacques]

Boeing 737 with 94 on board hits runway with its tail during hard landing in Russia:

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/480438-boeing-with-94-on-board-hits-runway/

[Bateleur1]

It would be even cooler if that 767 was inverted

 

and communicating ... showing the bird

[Bateleur1]

Boeing 737 with 94 on board hits runway with its tail during hard landing in Russia:

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/480438-boeing-with-94-on-board-hits-runway/

 

Wonder what the real issue is.  They mention hard landing but later on they mention fuel was dumped.  You only dump fuel if you know there is trouble comming and you need get rid of extra fuel to prevent fires.  So there was a prior issue already.  Interresting.

[Long Wheel Base]

Wonder what the real issue is.  They mention hard landing but later on they mention fuel was dumped.  You only dump fuel if you know there is trouble comming and you need get rid of extra fuel to prevent fires.  So there was a prior issue already.  Interresting.

AFAIK a B737 can't dump fuel...... Will have to ask the guys who do flying spanner work on those aircraft.

[flymango]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/world/british-airways-subsonic-flight.html

 

"The flight left Kennedy International Airport at 6:47 p.m. on Saturday and arrived at Heathrow Airport at 4:43 a.m. on Sunday, a flight time of four hours and 56 minutes. The average flight time on that British Airways route during the past 30 days was six hours and 13 minutes, according to Flightradar24.

Two Virgin Atlantic flights from J.F.K. to Heathrow the same night also made it in five hours or less.

The speed of sound is about 767 m.p.h. but, because the flight had the help of a strong tail wind, it was not considered supersonic like the retired Concorde, said Jay Spenser, a co-author of “747: Creating the World’s First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures From a Life in Aviation.”

[Bonus]

Those eastbound flights must have been amazing. You wouldn't know you were going any faster than normal because the air around you was also moving east at an amazing speed thanks to the jet stream, but to knock 80 mins off a flight like that! Wow!

 

Flights going the other way tried to avoid that same wind (as they always do - the jetstream is always there, its just turbo charged at the moment because of the storm) but they still took 2 and a half hours longer to do the LHR -JFK trip westbound.

 

Imagine swimming down a fast moving river versus swimming UP a fast moving river and you've got it . ...

[Bateleur1]

There are some serious jetstreams over the North Atlantic at the moment.  BA Flight 112 from New York to London has clocked a new record crossing the Atlantic in less than 5 hours.  It is normally a almost 6 hour + flight.  At one stage plane reached a ground speed of 711 knots.  That is 1280 odd km/h.

 

 

Ok Is see Flymango beat me to it.

Edited February 10, 2020 by Bateleur1

[geomark]

Brave pilot and camera man

 

I thought sucking dust like this into small jet engines was a big no no?  

[Bateleur1]

I thought sucking dust like this into small jet engines was a big no no?  

 

But it is not sucking dust, just leaving dust.