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#61 Post by Edgar » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:07 am

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#62 Post by Howie » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:38 am

why no??
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#63 Post by Al » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:09 pm

Slightly related. I nearly got squashed by a Singapore Airlines 747 today flying low over thebarton. I'm not sure how often they fly 747s into Adelaide but this one took me by surprise.
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#64 Post by Ho Really » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:13 pm

Al wrote:Slightly related. I nearly got squashed by a Singapore Airlines 747 today flying low over thebarton. I'm not sure how often they fly 747s into Adelaide but this one took me by surprise.
SIA operates 747s as freighters on Tuesdays and Saturdays. At what time was this flight?

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#65 Post by Al » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:20 pm

About 7.30pm.
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#66 Post by Ho Really » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:48 pm

Al wrote:About 7.30pm.
That flight is scheduled for 20:05 (8:05pm). So I guess it would have been slightly early. It departs at 21:35 (9:35pm). The other SIA flights on Tuesdays are in the morning at 09:05 (arrival from Singapore) and 13:05 (1:05pm departure for Singapore) on a B777-200.

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#67 Post by AG » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:51 am

Al wrote:Slightly related. I nearly got squashed by a Singapore Airlines 747 today flying low over thebarton. I'm not sure how often they fly 747s into Adelaide but this one took me by surprise.
Call me Mr Obvious, but they always look like they're flying closer to ground than the typical 737s and A320s that land because they are larger though they would be flying at a similar height to other landing planes. It's just the impression you get from ground level.
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#68 Post by Al » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:38 pm

Yeah I agree. Still I didn't expect to see a 747 that close up. It must be touching the roofs of houses by the time it nears the airport. I can't imagine what an A380 would look like at the same distance.

Ho, it was around 7.30pm but I didn't check the clock at the moment I saw it so it might have been closer to 8pm. Thanks for the info though.
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#69 Post by stelaras » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:09 pm

i know what you mean..My folks used to own the Toms supermarket (before it became an IGA and later a bottle shop) on marion road in richmond.

As i kid i could see the planes come in to land (as its right over the flight path) and ide swear that i could hit them with a tennis ball or something..I think i even tried once but got nowhere near!

I would love to be at that location to see the under-belly of an A380!
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#70 Post by Ho Really » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:47 pm

stelaras wrote:...As i kid i could see the planes come in to land (as its right over the flight path) and ide swear that i could hit them with a tennis ball or something..I think i even tried once but got nowhere near!

I would love to be at that location to see the under-belly of an A380!
Things we boys do. :lol:

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#71 Post by Pistol » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:20 am

I was sitting at the Griffins Head pub last night and noticed a Qantas 743 fly overhead about 7ish. It has been a LONG time since we have seen Qantas fly this stock into Adelaide. Is this because of the police and fire games I wonder.
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#72 Post by Maximus_Marc » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:51 pm

i saw it too, compared to the usual 737 we see in our skies when i saw it, it looked huge. I don't usually look up when i hear plane overhead but the noise was louder then usual and i looked up and saw a huge 747 overhead, was so cool.
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#73 Post by Al » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:46 pm

Pistol78 wrote:I was sitting at the Griffins Head pub last night and noticed a Qantas 743 fly overhead about 7ish. It has been a LONG time since we have seen Qantas fly this stock into Adelaide. Is this because of the police and fire games I wonder.
Sorry Pistol but did you mean a 747? I can't seem to find any info on a 743.
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#74 Post by Pistol » Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:38 pm

Sorry 743 is the abreviation for a 747-300. I was a bit of an airline nerd when I was younger!
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#75 Post by Maximus_Marc » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:35 pm

Why did Garuda stop flights into adelaide?
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