!! The crew thought that it was OK to fly an aircraft with u/s fuel gauges!
Chris
On 30 Jul 2013, at 15:58, Ian Nichols <ian.a.nichols@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 30 July 2013 13:58, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> We had a US30 Dragway west of York, PA that was also the airport
>> runway. It felt odd flaring for touchdown with grandstands to either side.
>> It an airplane needed to land during an event they would hold the cars and
>> you just landed long. Pretty strange.
>>
>
> Such landings are not always planned - I'm reminded of this:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
>
> Which is almost topical again:
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/07/23/mb-gimli-glider-pilot-revisits-air-strip-winnipeg.html
>
> Love the old dragstrip photo too. For some reason it reminds me of the
> opening of the Moody Blues album "In Search of the Lost Chord" ;)
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|