SAA201 From South Africa, joined May 2001, 489 posts, RR: 3 Posted (5 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 3824 times:
Yes, you did read the title correctly!
SAA's B747-344, ZS-SAT, which was withdrawn from the active fleet about a month or so ago, did a test flight after maintenence yesterday (Thur). On the return, the aircraft did two Touch and Go's on Rand Airport's 1712m x 15m Runway 11, to "test the envelope" so to speak for when the museum aircraft, ZS-SAN, is delivered there in Dec/Jan. Apparently the touch and go's were totally awesome to see!
ZS-SAT is now in an all white colour scheme, so hopefully that means it will be sold and/or flown elsewhere and not cut up like three previous B747's that were taken out of the fleet.
Aussie747 From Australia, joined Aug 2003, 1088 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (5 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 3583 times:
Is ZS-SAN still in full SAA colours, if so it will look great on display .
It reminds me of seeing QF-747-200 "City of Bunbury" on permenant display at Longreach which landed on the runway back in Nov 2002 which is little over a 1km in length!!! - only one attempt needed.
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