A Fokker 100 performing a touch and go on grass

yes that looks quite interesting

The Cameroon Airlines 737 has the engines on it that I was trying to find a picture of in a previous thread about JT9 engines. The holes just behind the leading edge of the intake blow air forward to avoid ingestion of FOD.

Glad to be of help. The holes are seen clearer on the enlarged picture. 🙂

I believe the TU154 was designed to land on grass strips.

The Cameroon Airlines 737 has the engines on it that I was trying to find a picture of in a previous thread about JT9 engines. The holes just behind the leading edge of the intake blow air forward to avoid ingestion of FOD.

Very interesting pic, thanks for sharing

interesting piccy of the AAF100

Here is a photo of a 737 on grass described as a ‘special version’? It is difficult to read the airline but looks like ‘Cameroo Airlines’.

Boeing did indeed produce a rough field version of the 732, with reinforced landing gear.

Here is a photo of a 737 on grass described as a ‘special version’? It is difficult to read the airline but looks like ‘Cameroo Airlines’.

The F28 was designed specifically to operate from unprepared strips, and to this day continues doing so all over the southern hemisphere. Most likely Fokker was trying to see if the F100, loosely based on the F28, could perform the same trick. As the photog said this was a test flight. Also notice the dutch registration.

A decent solid surface, in theory most up to a medium sized airliner could quite easily deal with a grass surface!

Hmm, first time I’ve seen an American Fokker.

I flew on one in 1999 from Chicago to Regan!

Hmm, first time I’ve seen an American Fokker. (well in another sense, not quite!)

Hmmmm! very interesting piccie! 🙂

Ain’t a clue, I know someone will correct me because I’m probably wrong! 😀 but I can only guess it was testing in case of an emergency landing and to see how it would cope on grass or whether it has the ability to land on grass strips.