Posted on 05/25/2007 10:49:58 AM PDT by DCBryan1
There is such a thing as one ended runways. The blocked end has a big "X." The general rule is "Never fly over an 'X'."
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LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
FYI.the book about the Gimli glider is a good read, and the movie is excellent as well..
Huh. And my flight instructor only made me land a cessna at Dulles, Detroit, and - darn, that fedex field in Ypsi, I forget the name.
Required three night flights, as I recall.
We did a lot of touch and gos at Lakehurst NAEC. I think he would have given me a cat shot in a Cessna if he could have.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
If you tell them you are inbound for landing, they can’t tell you no.
And if you do a T&G, they can’t charge you the ramp fee.
LOL.
Not that they won’t remember your name....
I can imagine the “butt-pucker factor” on the Gimli Glider was quite high.
I have been on a 747 with an engine loss, dumping fuel routine and fire trucks following you down the runway.
A 747 with an engine loss is a butt-pucker factor of zero compared to the Gimli incident.
The distinctive rumble from the B-36 was mainly due to the location of the geared-down propellers behind the wing, turning at about 900 RPM during cruise. Many a time I stopped what I was doing to look up at one overhead. And if they were headed back to Carswell, as often as not one engine would be dead.
The KC-97 tankers used R-4360s too. I once asked a maintenance officer how many hours they were rated to run. He said, 1500 according to the book, but he had never seen one on a KC-97 make it past 700. They had to run awfully hard to refuel B-47s, and sometimes the hookup was down in the treetops by the time the fuel transfer was done.
If the aircraft lost both engines on the same side of the aircraft that could be a very serious emergency. That being said, during the ‘80’s there was a British Airways B-747 that lost all 4 engines while flying through an ashcloud from a volcano. The pilots were able to restart all engines twice and safely make it to an alternate. Fascinating story.
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