November 26, 2006 at 10:25 pm
Not sure if this vid has been posted before, just knicked it from Pprune. 🙂
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/2006-11-6_747_retirement_landing.wmv
Loverly jubberly!!……oo gunna have to watch it again. 😀
Kev
By: lukeylad - 27th November 2006 at 12:56
Aint it amazing what a 747 can do.
Long live the 747 queen of the skys!!
By: steve rowell - 27th November 2006 at 03:53
Qantas landed a 742 at the Qantas outback museum airfield in Longreach Queensland in 2002
http://qfom.com.au/collections/virtual/vh-ebq/gallery.html
By: Manston Airport - 27th November 2006 at 00:49
No problem dude heres a little info about the 747-200 landing with pics.
Thats Brilliant landings on both off them. SAA Pilots are one off the best in the world. Remember them flying a 747 at Duxford what they did with that 747 😮
James
By: lukeylad - 26th November 2006 at 22:48
This little SP had been sitting in storage for 3 years at JO’BURG international airport and was due for scrapping but SA made the very wise choice to donate it to a museam at RAND. So the engines were started up and remarkably required little or no work done to them. The plane was stripped of all uneeded parts for the landing. A Rand is no where near 747 capable. The aircraft then took of for RAND with its gear down all the way made 2 pratice approaches then landing on the third. Awesome job by the pilot.
By: lukeylad - 26th November 2006 at 22:45
Thank you my Geordie friend!!
No problem dude heres a little info about the 747-200 landing with pics.
By: steve rowell - 26th November 2006 at 22:43
Thank you my Geordie friend!!
By: lukeylad - 26th November 2006 at 22:41
That is at an airfeild called RAND in JOBURG south africa there is a SA 747-200 already there that did a similar landing a few years ago.
By: steve rowell - 26th November 2006 at 22:36
What airfield is it???