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Old 03-31-2008, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Grond View Post
An Incredible Machine! I'm just watching "the Legend of Lockheed Martin" documentary on TV...
That picture reminds me of landing in Honduras at Tegulcigalpa's airport. I looked out my window and stared a goat right in the eye. The pilot flew his 727 like it was some fighter plane.

Tegu airport is carved out of a mountainside, and you have to approach it and pull a tight turn, just like a Corsair would do on a carrier landing. At the end of the runway is a cliff, with about 100 yards of mud before you would go off of it. There was one plane that had gone too far was stuck in the mud just short of the cliff. Thank god I saw that after I landed.

My next trip down there I got an aisle seat.
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