Boeing 747 Combi
Doing the loadsheet for the combi was challenging.
Loading and offloading even more so.
You really needed the help of the guys in the warehouse to build up all the heavy, high density stuff into lower deck pallets so that you could stuff them in the front lower-deck. The lighter less dense stuff would go in the maindeck and maybe some LD3 cans.
Sequencing the offload was important to avoid tail-tip.
1. Install tail-prop
2. Start offloading the rear and maindeck as soon as possible.
3. Once rear and maindeck offloaded, offload and load the forward hold.
4. continue with loading the main deck and rear hold.
Easy enough if you were the end station but if you were in the middle you had to worry about the transit load... if the origin station had a few lower-deck pallets for the destination then you were ok. But if they had some big stuff in the main deck you had to get creative.
One day I had a some big stuff on the maindeck and nothing much in the forward to hold it down. What I had to do was send 2 of the pallets bound for my (transit) station on to the end-station. They sent it back later that day on the return leg. Needless to say the cargo guys weren't pleased.
Alitalia had a 17 maindeck pallet which passed thru SIN regularly on its way to Australia. That was a pain to trim.
Sorry for the thread hi-jack.
Anilv
Loading and offloading even more so.
You really needed the help of the guys in the warehouse to build up all the heavy, high density stuff into lower deck pallets so that you could stuff them in the front lower-deck. The lighter less dense stuff would go in the maindeck and maybe some LD3 cans.
Sequencing the offload was important to avoid tail-tip.
1. Install tail-prop
2. Start offloading the rear and maindeck as soon as possible.
3. Once rear and maindeck offloaded, offload and load the forward hold.
4. continue with loading the main deck and rear hold.
Easy enough if you were the end station but if you were in the middle you had to worry about the transit load... if the origin station had a few lower-deck pallets for the destination then you were ok. But if they had some big stuff in the main deck you had to get creative.
One day I had a some big stuff on the maindeck and nothing much in the forward to hold it down. What I had to do was send 2 of the pallets bound for my (transit) station on to the end-station. They sent it back later that day on the return leg. Needless to say the cargo guys weren't pleased.
Alitalia had a 17 maindeck pallet which passed thru SIN regularly on its way to Australia. That was a pain to trim.
Sorry for the thread hi-jack.
Anilv
Meikleour, Vzlet, My apologies, I have checked my notes. BA operated 3 Combi flights into Al Jubail (before and after the start of hostilities) and then stopped. The well known green and white operator continued their 'stealth flights' for a while afterwards.
The plot thickens ...
