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Ah well, I thought it might be too easy....I cropped most of the tower but left too much perhaps..
I loved Flight's 1967 caption..
"La Guardia's nose-loading extendible piers serving a gaggle of American Airlines' BAC One-Elevens and Boeing 727s. The Cessna Centurion in the lower foreground looks as though it is about to be sucked in by the nearby predatory pier."
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I loved Flight's 1967 caption..
"La Guardia's nose-loading extendible piers serving a gaggle of American Airlines' BAC One-Elevens and Boeing 727s. The Cessna Centurion in the lower foreground looks as though it is about to be sucked in by the nearby predatory pier."
One11, it's all yours.
Not Bogota but in the right direction
"El Alto" La Paz International Airport, Bolivia. At 13,313' the world's highest.
That's a Lloyd Aero Boliviano 727 (their one and only, at the time, IIRC) refuelling for another flight. LAB was a great little airline, well run with a good record, at least in those days (RIP).
Pity the shot didn't include one of the the B-17 (love those turbo chargers at 13K'!) or C-46 freighters which used to haul the world's best beef up from Bolivia's Amazon ranches.
Thanks, One Eleven.
Of course, if you have aircraft, or engine, high altitude development/performance testing to be done, where better to get it done than at the world's highest airport? (Is that how you acquired that photo, One Eleven??)
Panagra, later PanAm, used to stage through La Paz with their high powered 720's. The PanAm station engineer used to keep a very special rubber mallet handy for those days (most days!) when an engine would 'cold hang' during start-up: hit the FCU in just the right place, at just the right moment, and the JT-3D would accelerate through the stall... Worked every time - skill and experience was as important as manuals then.
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Of course, if you have aircraft, or engine, high altitude development/performance testing to be done, where better to get it done than at the world's highest airport? (Is that how you acquired that photo, One Eleven??)
Panagra, later PanAm, used to stage through La Paz with their high powered 720's. The PanAm station engineer used to keep a very special rubber mallet handy for those days (most days!) when an engine would 'cold hang' during start-up: hit the FCU in just the right place, at just the right moment, and the JT-3D would accelerate through the stall... Worked every time - skill and experience was as important as manuals then.
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twochai.....
Nothing so exotic - just spent more time inside the 1-11 as PAX than anything else - and never in Bolivia ! As you mentioned the B-17 and assuming thread rules allow two-in-a-row.............
(Is that how you acquired that photo, One Eleven??)
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I never realized that La Paz was that high.
So when you land, do you use QNH or QFE ? There must be a phenomenal differance between the two. How does the Standard Setting of 1013.5 mb fit in ?
Clint.
So when you land, do you use QNH or QFE ? There must be a phenomenal differance between the two. How does the Standard Setting of 1013.5 mb fit in ?
Clint.
Do you use QNE or QFH?
QFE works well for avoiding hitting the runway too hard, but it doesn't work worth a damn avoiding the hard stuff around the edges of the airport.
('Scuse the thread creep)
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Mr. G,
On normal altimeters you run out of subscale, even at relatively low altitudes. In an idle moment at a gliding field near Calgary I couldn't wind back to zero from the field elevation of 3800'. However, I can imagine the La Paz ATIS "QNH 1013 mb, QFE 453 mb"!
On normal altimeters you run out of subscale, even at relatively low altitudes. In an idle moment at a gliding field near Calgary I couldn't wind back to zero from the field elevation of 3800'. However, I can imagine the La Paz ATIS "QNH 1013 mb, QFE 453 mb"!
As it looks `mediterranean`,with a B-17 parked,and seems like large dirty stains on dispersal,could it be a `Protection Civile` base, possibly Ajaccio ?
