Lowest/ Fastest 747 I have ever seen
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Nah, didn't really live up to the expectation, sorry. Maybe you just had to be there - like I was back in the early '90's at the inaugural Avalon Airshow, when the Australian Airlines 727 came belting over the top of the crowd. Now that was a fly-by! 
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You think that was low
Plummeting out of the sky there mate! Was it close to bar closing time?
Interesting stuff on yer website.
Interesting stuff on yer website.
One of the tests was to check the Vmo & Mmo clackers.
Here's Mmo.
Fun!
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18 Wheeler - I had to do one of those C of A test flights too - in a B727 way back. The program called for 418 KIAS and M0.92 - figures I am not likely to ever see again 
(BTW this is an accurate dipiction of my face at the time!!)
(BTW this is an accurate dipiction of my face at the time!!)
IIXX Wheeler,
I used to do the same sort of thing in the RAAF B707's after heavy maintenance, the dinger was supposed to go off at M.888 but we were allowed to go to M.92 if it didn't so the techs could re-calibrate the Machmeter.
As you say great fun.
Regards,
BH.
I used to do the same sort of thing in the RAAF B707's after heavy maintenance, the dinger was supposed to go off at M.888 but we were allowed to go to M.92 if it didn't so the techs could re-calibrate the Machmeter.
As you say great fun.
Regards,
BH.
Holy Crap! I've got a few thousand hours on those and I didn't know the ASI could really go that high! Great photos...especially the camera shake in the MMO test.
FWIW one of the companies I used to work for had a 747-200 hit by a very power standing wave out in the middle of the Pacific; even with idle thrust it ran up to M 0.96 before slowing down. Again, zero damage and I think they made a little fuel on that sector.
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I once got up to mach 3. Sorry, I once shaved with a mach 3. You guys are dangerous!
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