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Brisbane
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February 2003
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Re: plane jokes
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Tue, 04 October 2005 13:38
 
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Last time i flew in an Ansett jet ... when landing in brisbane (in a boeing of some flavour), air-brakes popped up on touch down, i thought thats a good thing, i get to have good look at the hydraulic motors driving driving the pivot shaft for right-wing air-brakes, i also noticed that every motor visible to me had quite recently sprayed hydraulic fluid and lubricant from from the shaft seals coating the wing and underside of the airbrakes, the maintenance (un)impressed me so much i never flew with them again. Plus the plane had massive braking shudder (whole plane shook, very loud sound), pilot kept having to back off the brakes and the shudder seemed to pull plane to one side, was expecting plane to snap off a wheel.
Most frightening landing witnessed - twin turbo prop coming into Brampton Island (off mackay), strip is on edge of island, approach is from landward side (upwind into sea breeze), right next to island is another island, the gap between the two forms funnel and creates interesting winds, pilot was working every moving surface on the plane, engines were bouncing all over the place, it looked like a terryfiying roller-coaster ride, return trip on the same-day-visit boat seemed to have more people than the morning trip over.
Weirdest landing - Rockhampton, approach comes over city and to north of airport, does 180 degree left turn to line up to runway, felt like the end of the 180 was at the inner marker, plane was loosing lots of altitude while it turned (with full flaps and gear down) and as soon as it got wings level it was over the fence, runway markers passed a few moments later and then wheels were down on the runway. pulled up right at the very end of the runway, turning left and straight over to (virgin) terminal. Is that normal for rockvegas?
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plane jokes
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Mr DOHC | Mon, 03 October 2005 11:25 |
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mynameisrodney | Mon, 03 October 2005 11:34 |
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Bill Sherwood | Mon, 03 October 2005 12:29 |
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Mr DOHC | Mon, 03 October 2005 12:33 |
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Bill Sherwood | Mon, 03 October 2005 14:03 |
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shinybluesteel | Mon, 03 October 2005 14:13 |
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Bill Sherwood | Mon, 03 October 2005 14:30 |
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Bill Sherwood | Mon, 03 October 2005 14:37 |
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kingmick | Mon, 03 October 2005 21:36 |
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Classique71 | Tue, 04 October 2005 12:31 |
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Bill Sherwood | Tue, 04 October 2005 13:06 |
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thechuckster | Tue, 04 October 2005 13:38 |
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kingmick | Tue, 04 October 2005 20:21 |
