USAFHummer From United States of America, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 54 Reply 3, posted (10 years 2 months 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 5595 times:
I believe SXM is 7000 ft. long give or take a few hundred feet...when 747's operated out of there, they usually headed to another island with a longer runway to top off tanks before heading across the pond...
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Positive rate From Australia, joined Sep 2001, 2143 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (10 years 2 months 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 5515 times:
Hobart International airport has a runway which is only 2200 metres long which is about 7,000ft and get's quite a lot of heavy traffic including AN-124's,747's,A340's and 767's. Another one i can think of is Coolangatta airport in QLD which has a runway only 2042 metres long but routinely has 767 traffic.
B747skipper From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (10 years 2 months 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 5380 times:
Friends -
SXM has a 7535 feet runway...
As USAFHummer mentioned, the 747s operate out of SXM to other Carribean airports (to drop some other passengers as well) then refuel for the flight back to Europe... Unless say, a 9,000 feet runway is available (better, make it 10,000 feet) - there is nothing much that can be done for a heavily loaded 747 to fly full payload with a lot of fuel...
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ATA L1011 From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 1361 posts, RR: 7 Reply 8, posted (10 years 2 months 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 5197 times:
To add to BA skipper neither can a loaded down: L1011-100,DC-10,MD-11,A340 or even 727-200 operate from anything under 9,000-10,000 feet safely.
NZ767 From New Zealand, joined Nov 2001, 1620 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (10 years 2 months 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 5154 times:
Wellington International (NZWN) has a 1935 Metre (6348 Feet) runway aligned 16/34 with high ground to the north and no safety areas at either end.
We used to see regular QF 747SP service as well as NZ and QF 767 service.
Unusual heavies have included a UA 747-100 diverted from Auckland and a BA 777 Royal Flight though that one was obviously VERY lightly loaded.
All heavies had payload restrictions.
FrequentFlyKid From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 1201 posts, RR: 1 Reply 13, posted (10 years 1 month 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 4827 times:
A fully loaded 727-200 also needs 9,000-10,000 feet of runway for a safe takeoff?
AA61hvy From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 13975 posts, RR: 59 Reply 14, posted (10 years 1 month 4 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 4815 times:
I think the 744 into SAN went to PHX first, but now its changed to a 777 direct.
Cedarjet From United Kingdom, joined May 1999, 7712 posts, RR: 55 Reply 15, posted (10 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 4416 times:
I think Braniff had moved to DFW before they got their 747s; so I don't think they ever operated out of Love Field.
Anyone remember when a United DC10 landed at Washington National? Low on fuel, although I don't know why they didn't divert somewhere else, DC ain't exactly Easter Island. Anyway, a UA DC10 definitely went into National, flew out again the next day empty by a UA test pilot. I've never seen a picture but I would very much like to if anyone knows anything about it.
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CitationJet From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 2235 posts, RR: 3 Reply 16, posted (10 years 1 month 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 4363 times:
I just received my May/June Airliners magazine yesterday. It features an article on SAN.
Their runway is 9,400 ft long with a 1,810 foot displaced threshold. The British 744 stopped in PHX. On March 25, 2001 British 772 non-stops went to Gatwick. In October 2002 it switched to Heathrow.
CitationJet From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 2235 posts, RR: 3 Reply 17, posted (10 years 1 month 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 4377 times:
Braniff definitely flew their 747 out of Love Field to HNL. It was flight 501 using N601BN.
Here is a photo of Braniff's 747 at Love Field: http://braniffpages.com/1965/1965.html
STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16261 posts, RR: 52 Reply 18, posted (10 years 1 month 2 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 4367 times:
747s sometimes land on runway 11/29 (crosswind) at EWR, Newark's 11/29 is about 6,600 ft long.
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