United960 From United States of America, joined Apr 2010, 36 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (2 years 10 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 6391 times:
MSP had a spectacular sunset last night, and the LH A346 took off at just the right moment. I was on my back deck in South Minneapolis and heard an unusual aircraft noise I didn't recognize. My friends and I all turned around and it flew right over us, heading due north above cedar avenue and then making a nice tight right turn to the east immediately south of downtown. Folks on the south side of the city with a skyline view would have had just a tremendous view of the eastbound turn over downtown. Glad someone caught the video!
9W748Capt From United States of America, joined Feb 2008, 409 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (2 years 10 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 5814 times:
Wow, awesome video, Af773 - must have been quite an experience! Would love to catch a flight on a 346 someday. Nice catch! Maybe LH can begin flying it to MSP one day
GuitrThree From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1988 posts, RR: 9 Reply 8, posted (2 years 10 months 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 5220 times:
Those things might climb a little better if the gear retracted faster! Watching the video, from 1:00 to 1:24 was the time when the doors first opened, wheels up, doors closed! Almost a half a minute. Maybe it's like this on all big ones, but never seemed to notice that before. Maybe I'm just used to watching a butt load of 737's retract their gear which have no doors on the mains. Cool find however, don't know when the next time we'll ever see a 340-anything here at BNA.
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KC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 11708 posts, RR: 52 Reply 9, posted (2 years 10 months 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 3951 times:
Doesn't LH-434 normally fly to ORD? Is the weather bad enough to divert from ORD-MSP? I see it was rainin g at MSP.
GlobalCabotage From United States of America, joined Nov 2009, 601 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (2 years 10 months 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 3934 times:
Chicago is getting what Milwaukee had the last few days. This is probably the MUC flight to ORD.
sunking737 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 1930 posts, RR: 9 Reply 11, posted (2 years 10 months 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 3740 times:
Great Video. Didn't NW have the A340 on order? Was in canceled? If not will DL take them?
Braniff747SP From United States of America, joined Oct 2008, 2625 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (2 years 10 months 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 3326 times:
NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3081 posts, RR: 5 Reply 13, posted (2 years 10 months 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 3068 times:
Quoting sunking737 (Reply 11): Great Video. Didn't NW have the A340 on order? Was in canceled? If not will DL take them?
NWA had the A330 and A340 on order back in the late 1980s early 1990s, but NWA entered bankruptcy around 1992 and cancelled them. NWA reordered the A330 in the mid 1990s but posponed their delivery until 2003, when they finally took delivery of the A330.
Continental also had ordered the A340, but took the 777 instead.
Alias1024 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 2644 posts, RR: 2 Reply 14, posted (2 years 10 months 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 3038 times:
Quoting NASCARAirforce (Reply 13): but NWA entered bankruptcy around 1992 and cancelled them.
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Northwest didn't actually file for bankruptcy in 1992, but it came very close to doing so (and repeatedly threatened their unions with it) while it was dealing with the financial aftermath of the leveraged buyout in 1989. It was during this period that they cancelled their longhaul Airbus orders.
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