View Full Version : Could some one please explain this picture?
EightsOnPylons
26th Apr 2004, 07:41
What is going on here?
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/554057/M/
thanks,
eighstonpylons
angels
26th Apr 2004, 08:35
I stand by to be ridiculed, but at LGW they have a plane on the 'spotters' viewing area. Is this pic just an exaggerated version of LGW?
PS - I have never actually been onto the viewing area at Gatters because they actually charge you money to stand in the cold.
BigHitDH
26th Apr 2004, 09:08
"Ready for pushback...." :E
Mobieus1
26th Apr 2004, 09:44
Would'nt like to pay the parking :uhoh:
BigHitDH
26th Apr 2004, 10:00
On a serious note, I thinkwhat you can see in the piture is the parking area by the runway 26 threshold. The airport is built up on a bank all around that side of the airport, so many of the roads and buildings that aren't on that bank are well below airfield level.
Nearly Man
26th Apr 2004, 10:56
Well, any idiot can see that .. the Swiss are bloody good pilots!
PAXboy
26th Apr 2004, 11:22
It's a very special memorial park at ZRH. Each aircaft contains the body of one CEO or Chairman of the Board, that has tried to make Swiss/Cross Air profitable.
As the a/c are on a windy ledge, they needed more ballast, so the cargo holds are full of the bodies of staff and their wallets.
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different." Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Flypuppy
26th Apr 2004, 16:40
It's obviously a Swiss Airline Penknife, the one closest to the camera is used for getting boy scouts out of horses hooves.
cwatters
26th Apr 2004, 17:13
It's obviously a Swiss Airline Penknife, the one closest to the camera is used for getting boy scouts out of horses hooves
On that theme...
They continue to add more and more ingenious gadgets to these Swiss penknives.... At CEBIT there was one on show show that had a USB memory storage device in it alongside numerous knife blades and other pointy things. According to the manufacturer (who was interviewed on TV) they plan to do a version suitable for airside shops.... A Swiss knife without the knife perhaps?
IB4138
27th Apr 2004, 08:04
Whoever took this pic, must have a tail or two to tell!
So, Is this where the Saab 2000s for Duo are being hidden?
compressor stall
28th Apr 2004, 02:35
Hmm, the preflight walk around would be a pain in the ar$e.
126,7
28th Apr 2004, 23:57
VTOL Saab2000:} Best kept secret until now!
It's the Basel Museum of Saab Logos, situated on the roof of the Crossair, sorry Swiss Training Centre.
It's been open to the public for some weeks now and the money raised has gone towards Andre's leaving present.
It's grounding no. 2. This time the one of the small ones, as a revenge for the last, where only the big ones stayed on the ground :E
Point Seven
2nd May 2004, 22:32
It's Jerricho attempting LL Fin.
P7
DanAir1-11
3rd May 2004, 02:08
IRSTOL capable!
- (Inconceivably Ridiculous Short Take off and Landing)