Jumbo At Luton Yesterday

[Ennie]

Can anyone shed some light on why I saw a 747 taking off from 26 at Luton yesterday at 17.30....this may be the norm, but I have never seen it....any thoughts??

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"Keep The F*****G Ball In The Middle"!!!

[springbok449]

Hi Ennie,
I understand that the jumbo is operated by Air Atlanta and doing some charter work to take some folks whale watching somewhere north. It has been doing it for a while now.
Must be pretty impressive taking off from LTN in a 747 as it sometimes hary in a fully laden 737.
Hope the ball is in the middle!
Bokkie449

[Ennie]

I can imagine it would take up rather a lot of the runway, I know what u mean about heavy 737's out of LTN, was on a jumpseat once going to Barcelona fully laden, that was interesting enough!!!

[Wycombe]

I was once a pax on an full (about 380 pax I think) CKT L1011 LTN-LCA on a hot August evening back in the mid'90's.

Brakes/tyres were closely inspected during t/around before we boarded and when we departed it seemed like we used all (and I mean all!) of Rwy 26.

Must have looked very interesting from the FD!!

[This message has been edited by Wycombe (edited 31 May 2001).]

[VP8]

You should see one of our AN124's do it!!

Now that is hairy

VP8