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11-06-2006, 12:40 PM

joel payne

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Final flight

For those who appreciate aviation.......

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

11-08-2006, 07:58 PM

atpwannabe

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Great video.

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

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11-11-2006, 07:47 AM

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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

12-01-2006, 11:42 AM

kochankr

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

12-02-2006, 03:36 PM

avi8or

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

Thanks

12-02-2006, 03:54 PM

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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

12-02-2006, 04:29 PM

Puppyz

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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!

Last edited by Puppyz; 12-02-2006 at 04:34 PM. Reason: found video

12-02-2006, 05:02 PM

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SAA has some great pilots - no doubt here.

12-02-2006, 06:07 PM

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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