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Post by flyjoe180 on Feb 5, 2007 10:50:00 GMT 12
Sorry if youve seen this before, some real hairy flying going on in this video!  |
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Post by corsair67 on Feb 5, 2007 15:01:01 GMT 12
I felt sick just watching that! ;D
Why don't they just bite the bullet, move the airport somewhere else and build a fast train link into the city from there!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 5, 2007 18:08:26 GMT 12
Great film. I've had a couple of rough landings there, including one where the entire plane was screaming and we all thought we were going to die. Great fun.
Apparently it's much calmer than it used to be before they removed the hill - so I'm told by someone who operated Baffins there prewar. And they didn't have brakes! The erks had to run out and catch the wingtips in the wind!
It was always fun standing in the military terminal and watching landings on a rough day. You can't see all the action form the civil terminal.
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Post by beagle on Feb 5, 2007 19:05:24 GMT 12
I liked the last one of the dash-8
just wondering if he had to have the engineers take a few peeks at certain known stress points.
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Post by Radialicious on Feb 5, 2007 22:21:10 GMT 12
Its funny that all news coverage at Wellies is when a Northerly or Norwester is blowing. My work takes me into Wellington often. A bitching motherly southerly when even the sea spray can't gain enough height to leave the sea, is more pleasant than a moderate nor'Wester where the air dumps into Island Bay and dishes out the bash to anyone under 60 tons AUW.
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Post by paddy on Feb 6, 2007 5:23:39 GMT 12
No wonder I can seldom get a flight from Sydney to Wellington!
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Post by xr6turbo1 on Feb 16, 2007 18:59:26 GMT 12
I liked the last one of the dash-8 just wondering if he had to have the engineers take a few peeks at certain known stress points. Yeah I was tinking that. I fly there a lot for work, and did a few flights in there when I was doing my PPL, its always different and you never know what to expect which adds to the challenge. |
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