Please post all sightings in this thread.
I've made it a quarterly thread as it's not very busy yet.
July, August September 2008 Sightings
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July, August September 2008 Sightings
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SAA A340
Saturday, SAA A340 "Springbok" Flt 281 for Jo-Berg, took off on runway 03 and turned sharp left and came over Noranda / Dianella towards Fremantle to avoid a storm out west at 1145 at 1500 ft, what a beautiful sight and the fantastic whine of those engines powering out for the climb.
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Condi Rice arrived
I went out and saw it land and taxi in , too dark for pics,,,,they parked it around the far north end of IT and 100,s cops and AFP stopped anyone getting any where near the area, all roads blocked off down Horrie miller drive and Tonkin hwy, Grt Eastern to UWA,, it is leaving about 1pm tomorrow for NZ.turbulence wrote:Does anyone know anything about the US Airforce 737 here for Condoleezza Rice?
The media is reporting a 737 anyway. Supposed to be leaving YPPH tomorrow
July 23, 2008 07:23pm
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Perth tonight for a two-day visit as a guest of Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0 ... 20,00.html
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No way will you get near
No way will you get any where near the AC, you could have earlier gone to IAP to south end where I was last night and see taxi and take off,,thats it, too late now, the whole of Grt Eastern Hwy closed off by Police Mike Bikes and and Tonkin Hwy and Horrie Miller Drv, Polair now told to stay south/east of the the Tower clear of runway 21 and 24 over the Woolworths Building at 2500 fet. 1234 Departed and Airborne at 1300 SAM2916.....Departures told Sam2916 to climb to 13000 feet call Melbourne Center, initaly then climb to 31000 feet with possible change to climb to 51300 feet..... byeee Rice Girl....turbulence wrote:Cheers for the info mate, was going to get out there and have a look at the A/C but probably too late now.
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Brad
Ive got good pictures of it on the tarmac taken from inside gate 1 and of it taking off. Only problem is my phone keypad died today, and i cant connect the data cable to it to copy the photos off. Hmm how annoying.turbulence wrote:Does anyone know anything about the US Airforce 737 here for Condoleezza Rice?
The media is reporting a 737 anyway. Supposed to be leaving YPPH tomorrow
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Robinson chopper
A Robinson chopper was heading from the coast to perth AP at 1530 Wednesday, today its buzzing around canning bridge and Perth AP. have not seen one for a while, looks like a little red beetle.. 1414
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51300 ft, not for a 737, a 737 bums out at 41000 for a NG (600/700/800/900 series) and 37000 for a classic (100/200/300/400/500 series)
even A 747 bums out at 45000 ft
The only commercial aircraft i know that could get that high would be a concord
Source http://elearning.ians.lu/aircraftperfor ... fault.aspx
even A 747 bums out at 45000 ft
The only commercial aircraft i know that could get that high would be a concord
Source http://elearning.ians.lu/aircraftperfor ... fault.aspx
Confusion
I think when I thought I heard the rice plane to climb to 5130 had to be a mistake, traffic controllers oftern talk so fast, the numbers could have sounded so close to a flight number or any other number, as the highest ive heard any other AC to climb to is 380, most run around 310..jjAO11912 wrote:51300 ft, not for a 737, a 737 bums out at 41000 for a NG (600/700/800/900 series) and 37000 for a classic (100/200/300/400/500 series)
even A 747 bums out at 45000 ft
The only commercial aircraft i know that could get that high would be a concord
Source http://elearning.ians.lu/aircraftperfor ... fault.aspx
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