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Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 1:01 PM
Subject: Fw: Retirement flight/last landing of a 747SP in South Africa


The link at the bottom has a cool video of the retirement flight/last landing of a 747SP in South Africa, being delivered to a very small museum airstrip......the runway was only 48 feet wide!
If you have speakers, crank them up.....great music to go with it!!


http://www.rudigreyling.com/movie/bo...ding_small.wmv

Great video. :cool:

I'm sure the Capt & FO were probably doing the Fred Flintstone & Barney Rubble on the brakes though!! :p


atp

Real nice video, thanks for sharing. FYI the airport's ICAO is FAGM and it's got a 5,100 ft runway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Airport

can't see the vid, any one has another link?

No joy on the link working here either... does anyone have a working link?

Thanks

Sorry guys and gals,
I searched for about fifteen minutes all over the net trying multiple search engines and multiple key words and all I can find is dead links and videos that wont load. stumped

try this, couldn't find a video put it has pictures:
http://www.sa-transport.co.za/aircra...ision/747.html

and some more info: http://www.skypark.org/747Landing.htm

edit * yay i found the video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap_ny...elated&search=
that runway is small!

SAA has some great pilots - no doubt here.

Great job puppyz,
I bow to your internet search prowess

What a great video, I have seen people have to do go arounds on runways like that with 152's because they come in hot and fast and float 3/4 of the way down the runway. Amazing work by the pilots