747-200 landing at Longreach

[Chris Roope]

All engines are at idle at touchdown anyway, so I dont see what difference it would have made doing the approach without 1&4?

I also suspect that doing an intentional 2 engined approach would be operating outside the flight manual ceritification. If you prang an aeroplane while intentionally operating outside the 'envelope' then you would have some fantastic lawsuits coming your way.

[Ben W]

One other question- Is it true that the seats were all removed for the flight to cut weight and then reinstalled in Longreach?

[Scott Lindsell]

Originally Posted by Ben W

Thanks for the link. I was always under the impression that she landed with 1&4 on idle as well, but my friend insists they were all turning at the same speed? The video doesn't really prove either of us wrong so I guess we'll continue to argue about it for now! lol

Cheers,

Ben

Hey Ben,
Are you the Ben W I think you are???
Scott.

[Bill S]

Originally Posted by Mick F

She'll never leave Longreach. Never.

Only way it can possibly leave Longreach is if they were to extend the runway to enable it.

Mick

It's possible to get a very light 747 off the ground in a little over a 1000 metres ground roll.

I seriously doubt they had #1 and #4 shutdown, there's no charts or approval to do that, that I've ever heard of.
If you don't want FOD ingestion into the engines, then just don't use reverse - They were very light and in a Classic you can use a lot of braking when light and the brakes will be okay.

[Mick F]

Thanks for the info Bill.

I was simply going off what I was told during a visit to the museum last year.

Cheers

Mick

[Paul C.]

I think that VH-EBQ will spend the rest of its life fading away in the desert with the original VH-(X)EBA, first Qantas 707.

[Nick W.]

We were all amazed at how EBQ landed quite far down the runway, compared to our 738, which had quite a force when slowing down and pretty much hit the piano keys.

On the video, you can see me at 20s (left of screen, black hat, white shirt) and my dad (right of screen, blue hat and white shirt).

my favourite photo which i took of that landing:

http://www.rwy34.com/search/bigpic.php?id=3228&size=L

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[Chris Tully]

I can confirm all engines were running during the landing phase.

As confirmed by the Captain who operated the flight

[Steve S... 2]

Couldn't agree more about the appearance of the 747 compared to A380.

We have a new queen of the skies and as good an aircraft as it probably is, it is damn ugly. The sadest day ever in aviation history was when the Boeing 747 was superceded and Boeing should have put up more of a fight with the 747-800...