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747 low pass.

I always can't help but think what it might be like to take footage of this, or of the Airbus A380, back in time to show at the dawn of aviation. Massive machines, made of metal, and eventually graduating beyond metal, being used by the thousands, every day.
 
davmat787 said:
Looks like a 747-300: stretched upper deck like the -400, but no winglets. Boeing did not make too many of them, and many are no longer flying.
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Ah. That was screwing with my perspective. The upperdeck made the fuse look shorter to me. And the tail wasn't giant sized like the -SP.
Thx.
 
foghorn67 said:
Ah. That was screwing with my perspective. The upperdeck made the fuse look shorter to me. And the tail wasn't giant sized like the -SP.
Thx.
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The SP lacked the stretched upper deck, it had the original 747-100 dimensions. The rudder height was increased on the SP as two fuselage plugs, one fore and one aft of the wingbox, were removed. The shorter the distance is between the center of gravity and rudder, the taller the rudder must be.

Or something like that.
 
Something like that 🙂
Short arm = nasty wiggle in turbulence. This is counteracted by a good autopilot/yaw damper, if you have one.
 
What was the point of this? To show that it was possible? I've seen so many "hot-dogging" videos where it turns ugly ending up in an aircraft being destroyed.

Unless I'm missing something, like this was a necessary maneuver or a safety training or something.
 
I was expecting to hear people in the background shouting "Allahu Akbar" as that plane approached the ground.
 
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