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AtticusTurbo27
AtticusTurbo27 Reader
11/21/13 1:32 p.m.

lol i had the feed up in the background, and i checked it and it was playing but the plane hadn't taken off. once i refreshed the page suddenly it had already happened. lol

novaderrik
novaderrik PowerDork
11/21/13 1:41 p.m.

so are they going to start regularly scheduled flights to and from that airport now that they know it can be done?

codrus
codrus HalfDork
11/21/13 6:26 p.m.

Nah. The runway is too short to take off at maximum weight -- it only worked here because the fuel tanks were mostly empty.

pres589
pres589 UltraDork
11/21/13 7:19 p.m.

In reply to novaderrik:

It's actually decently busy as-is. A couple weeks ago I was working with an avionics vendor that sent a few tech reps around. They flew their own airplane from Michigan down and landed at Jabara.

McConnell is actually where they want to carry that hardware anyway. Jabara is basically 100% gen-av so the biggest bird that would land there might be a Boeing BBJ / 737. And that would take up just about 100% of the runway at worst-case.

Lancer007
Lancer007 Reader
11/21/13 7:24 p.m.

I wonder if this guy retired in the past year and got a civilian job?

http://www.tampabay.com/news/military/macdill/c-17s-landing-at-wrong-airport-elicits-theories-but-few-facts/1241869

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