Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Amazing video of parked 747 lifting in place in extreme wind conditions

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"This 747 is sitting in a boneyard in Mojave, CA awaiting scrapping"

Looks like someone forgot the yoke lock.

3 comments:

  1. That's amazing...wonder why the other plane didn't lift, too.

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  2. The lifting plane was almost surely not properly tied down.

    You're also supposed to leave the yoke in "dive" position when you park a plane (and ideally, lock the yoke so it can't move. With the yoke in "dive" position (full forward), the harder the wind blows on the nose, the harder the front wheel will press on the pavement.

    Clearly, that wasn't the case here. :)

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