Everyone, Have a look at this great photo!

[Tom the Tenor]

The following is a link to a remarkably great photo, the link is at www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file?id=144605. (http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file?id=144605.) It is of an Honduran TAN Lockheed Electra on finals at Tegucigalpa in the late afternoon in May 1987. Does anyone know if the photo is an air to air or from a nearby hill with a long lens? You can really hear those four Alisons turning, cant you!

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What we want is a bit of Pop Music, none of this Beethoven!!

[far cue]

Good shot!! If it was an air to air, then methinks said photographer and his chariot were soon to find themselves upside down.

Cheers

[latccatsa]

Have a look at this one
http://www.airrace.com.au/home.html
click on the thumbnail bottom left and you'll get a description

[broadreach]

Tom,
The photographer, William Decker, has a few more shots taken from the same vantage point, slightly inside the runway path. I wonder if he was perched on an approach light tower, an antic one might just get away with in Honduras?
cheers,
broadreach

[Tom the Tenor]

Thanks, Broadbreach, for the update and as for the photographer's likely perch atop an approach light tower, well I should have tried that two years ago at Juan Santamaria Airport, San Jose, Costa Rica. Might have been fun! Thanks, TTT.

[Zeke]

Tom the Tenor,

The picture is believed to be taken from the old restaurant area. That has been subsequently removed some time after the picture was taken. It was apparently a nice view place for spectators and an extra obstacle for crew.

That is the approach to runway 01 which is the normal duty runway.

Approach from the opposite side ( runway 19 ) is a lot better as far as not having the steep app, but downdrafts on short final are quite usual.

The airport fence has been taken a few times

Photos of a 727 coming in at the same field are front (http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file?id=134049) and rear (http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file?id=141994)


:rolleyes:

[Dave Incognito]

Does anyone know how this one was taken?

http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file?id=38061

Have a good one, Dave.

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Flying is easy - just throw yourself at the ground and miss.

[Biggles Flies Undone]

To my untrained eye it looks like the Electra is trimmed nose-down. Is that usual?

[ehwatezedoing]

Could be!, but he's nose-up

[Wrong Stuff]

BFU - not sure you're right on that. Isn't that a servo trim tab?

[Biggles Flies Undone]

Dunno mate! I've never handled anything heavier than a Duke which is why I asked. It just looks from the pic as if the trim is nose down which I would have thought was not so desirable for a landing. Does a servo trim tab move automatically (i.e. to compensate for AOA adjustments) and the pic just happened to catch that particular moment? I know I'm showing my ignorance here :)

[gaunty]

So if an engine takes a sickie, there is a left turn after take off then http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/eek.gif

[Tom the Tenor]

Zeke, Would you happen to know the elevation and length of that runway 01/19 at Tegucigalpa? Just curious as the fore-shortening from the photo makes it look real short. Your links to the 727 photos are great. Love to find a field like that nearer home that would have such great views of landing traffic and the bonus of having a restaurant or bar - wow! Thanks, TTT.

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What we want is a bit of Pop Music, none of this Beethoven!!

[Bystander]

TTT,

Have a look at
http://worldaerodata.com/
and enter the idenifier "MHTG".
The rest is self explanatory.

"On the Sidelines"

[Tom the Tenor]

Thank you, Bystander for the link to Worldaerodata. Plenty of good and useful information available from that site. TTT.