The photographer had plenty of confidence too. Gerry http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bahadir Acuner" <bahadiracuner@xxxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:15 AM Subject: Great pilots or what? > If you've ever landed on a narrow runway, say 50 feet across, you might be > able to empathize with these pilots. The plane was being delivered to a > museum at the Rand Airport in South Africa. With our thanks to Mark Monse, > the original e-mail stakes the claim, "(elevation 5568 feet with 4898 long > x > 50 feet wide runway!) The 747-200 outer-to-outer main gear tire width is > 41.33 ft. Empty aircraft Vref (landing speed) was 115 kts!" The aircraft > was > delivered in March. Click through, here > (http://www.avweb.com/newspics/747x50.jpg) , for the pictures, and have a > nice day ... drenched in humility.
