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1,005,000 Pounds Gross Take Off Weight

And here I was thinking that my mother-in-law's broom had finally been granted FAA type certification!

OBIO
 
Wow OBIO... You just nailed that one.

Thats alot of weight. Wouldn't want to do that to much. I can see the wings just ripping off right after take off.
 
Pretty impressive track record for a 40-year-old design. No wonder a lot of travelers (including a few Naval Aviators I know) adhere to the policy of "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going". :d
 
"It's a lot of mass, a lot of energy. I have to stay ahead of it."I will bet this is a VERY TRUE statement. I wouldn't want to fly it!
Ted
 
txnetcop said:
"It's a lot of mass, a lot of energy. I have to stay ahead of it."I will bet this is a VERY TRUE statement. I wouldn't want to fly it!
Ted
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I remember you mentioning that you used to go fly a motion simulator at DFW. If you were talking about the old Dalfort Aviation sims...B-737, B-727, B-747....I used to go fly them too. In 1989 and 1990 when I was a Flight Instructor, two of my students were Simtechs at Dalfort Aviation. We made a deal, I would give them all the instruction they wanted for free, and they would let me into the sims at night. I got 67 hours between all three sims, and out of the three, the B-747 was the easiest to fly. I would imagine the B-747-800 would be pretty good to fly.
 
Pretty amazing. I'll bet they sell a few of that model to people like UPS.

Thanks for the heads up. Great video.
 
Bone said:
I remember you mentioning that you used to go fly a motion simulator at DFW. If you were talking about the old Dalfort Aviation sims...B-737, B-727, B-747....I used to go fly them too. In 1989 and 1990 when I was a Flight Instructor, two of my students were Simtechs at Dalfort Aviation. We made a deal, I would give them all the instruction they wanted for free, and they would let me into the sims at night. I got 67 hours between all three sims, and out of the three, the B-747 was the easiest to fly. I would imagine the B-747-800 would be pretty good to fly.
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I don't remember it being called DalFort but I'm sure you are correct, that Boeing simulator was the only one out at DFW at the time. Now I think it is called SimuFlite. You are correct that is exactly how I got in. One of the girls that worked there arranged for my time at night and a Captain Mitchell offered his services in teaching me how to how to fly it. I was so stoked by the realism of that simulator. You could even make yourself sick flying in storm conditions. I've always wanted to fly the real thing to see if I could...been too long now!
Ted
 
Now break the "half a million" kilogram barrier and even us metric guys will be happy, lol.
 
txnetcop said:
I don't remember it being called DalFort but I'm sure you are correct, that Boeing simulator was the only one out at DFW at the time. Now I think it is called SimuFlite. You are correct that is exactly how I got in. One of the girls that worked there arranged for my time at night and a Captain Mitchell offered his services in teaching me how to how to fly it. I was so stoked by the realism of that simulator. You could even make yourself sick flying in storm conditions. I've always wanted to fly the real thing to see if I could...been too long now!
Ted
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Simuflight is down the road from Dalfort. I've been in there, but never flew one of their sims. The Dalfort building (it's called something else now ?? ) got it's start as a Braniff Airlines training center, that's why it had the 727 and 747. The 737 was added after Braniff sold the place.

From a stick and rudder perspective, if you had enough training you would have been able to fly the real thing just fine. Of course, you'd want your IP in the right seat just in case things went south.
 
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