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Old 9th Feb 2007, 11:54
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747 notoriously uses Rand airport, which is 1500 m long, hot and high and, even worse, just 15 m wide.
No doubt they do, but you can't carry any useful payload out of a runway like that. I suspect something like a ATR72 could carry more!
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