i can relate, joe. when i was based in kelp, we'd bring the old lear throttles back to flight idle around 100 miles out and never touch them again until landing for those typical 'middle of the night' return home legs. we'd just manage the airspeed until time for flaps, gear and touch down silently. the towerr and undoubtedly the folks who lived near the airport appreciated it. oh, sometimes you'd mismanage it and have to touch some power at the last second..but you heard about it from the other seat.. :cool: was that the 'fast wing' on your bird or one of the others? we had so many old lears, all with different wings, that it was hard to keep them straight at first. love seeing the pic. i did air ambo after the air cargo gigs. just a little higher on the food chain. ;)
ryan

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My ugly head

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Innsbruck is the most challenging airport I have been with a B737-800NG
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Last year on our non-stop flight with a -700 KBFI-EHAM (9h24m), Pic taken when level, just out of Boeing Field

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...couple more, my favorite pics from our company. Transavia.com (part of Air France - KLM)

Boeing - nobody does it better. Or even as well.

Joe -

I was based in Berlin flying out of Tegel on the 727 from '88 through '91. Best job I ever had!! Lived in Zehlendorf -- who knows, might have seen you on the Ku'damm.

great pics, gerko. :)
ryan

Bump for a great thread. Anyone else?http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1168036330.jpg

back in '98 or so during my stint flying lears in on-demand cargo ops. out of el paso, tx...always wanted to be a cowboy.. ;)
ryan

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ohhh here we go with the Boeing elitists!

Yes, but can it do 165mph.

so who has the biggest now?? who the fastest? and who has been doing unauthorized high speed passes over the Admiral's daughter?!!

Just saw this thread, can I play with the big boys? This is my Challenger that I built in '01-02. I sold her a couple of months back, the cars seemed to take up more time than the plane, so I wasn't flying much.
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Nice job Ed! I have a couple hours in one of those. I repaired a heavily damaged one a few years back for a customer (the dumb@ss balled it up again a couple weeks after I rebuilt it, attempting to take off out of essentially a back yard and caught the gear on a barbwire fence and totaled it!)

Geez, they are STOL's with the right wings and power, but there is a limit...

elf hughs..............K & N air filter installed on challenger. you pass GO, collect 200 dollars and go to head of class!

wonder if formerly stevie wilkinson has noted this?

nice plane. nice non asphalt, non concrete tarmac. wow a grass field. dont think there is one grass field in arizona any more.

2006 Reno Air Races.

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Yikes!
 

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Would love to know the story behind this one!

Re: Yikes!
 

couple of cases of beer, and a lot of folks to lift and plant the junker plane in the tree ( probably back when the branches were less thick)

That airplane had to be placed there for advertising purposes IMO.

Ed Hughes, nice plane. That is what I call true needle, ball, airspeed flying! I had my T6 based out of Aero Country near McKinney, TX for a couple of years when I lived/worked in Dallas. That was back in 98/99 when Aero Country had an aerobatic box right at the airport.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1168097500.jpg
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so did that V12 eventually fit in that white 911? :D