Lufthansa 747

[Ed W]

Lufthansa Technik will be disassembling this 747 in the coming months. I was happy to get some photos before they began, though I'd really like to get some shots of the flight deck before they yank out all the avionics. I'm planning to take a series of photos as it's slowly broken down to parts. Honestly, it's looking like a miniature aircraft graveyard over there.

[Hoss]

Lufthansa Technik will be disassembling this 747 in the coming months. I was happy to get some photos before they began, though I'd really like to get some shots of the flight deck before they yank out all the avionics. I'm planning to take a series of photos as it's slowly broken down to parts. Honestly, it's looking like a miniature aircraft graveyard over there.

Co worker of mine saw this come in yesterday.  Said it executed a missed approach (likely not for bad reasons - I heard he was doing a flyby).

Waiting for one of the more clever posters to find a Top Gun photo to post somewhere now...   

[Red Arrow]

Said it executed a missed approach (likely not for bad reasons - I heard he was doing a flyby).

A friend of a coworker with inside info said it was planned ahead of time.  They did the flyby gear down though.

[BKDotCom]

what time did it go over?

[Hoss]

what time did it go over?

IIRC my friend called me while waiting on picking up his son, so this was around 2:50pm.  He had a good seat for it; he was just south of the Arvest Bank at Admiral and Memorial.

EDIT:  Flightaware.com has it around 2:36pm.  It was a non-stop from Frankfort as flight 9930 (DLH9930).

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/DLH9930

[heironymouspasparagus]

There goes the market for scrap aluminum!!  Sell your cans today, 'cause the price is gonna crash!!

[Conan71]

Lufthansa Technik will be disassembling this 747 in the coming months. I was happy to get some photos before they began, though I'd really like to get some shots of the flight deck before they yank out all the avionics. I'm planning to take a series of photos as it's slowly broken down to parts. Honestly, it's looking like a miniature aircraft graveyard over there.

I watched them scrap out the Aloha DC-10's about 15 years back or so, fascinating process.

[Vision 2025]

A friend of a coworker with inside info said it was planned ahead of time.  They did the flyby gear down though.

Have friends who fly big iron and have to take them to scrap ocassionally and a go around is typical... often stating she just won't quit flying or she's not ready yet... besides de-fuel or fly in out.

[Hoss]

Have friends who fly big iron and have to take them to scrap ocassionally and a go around is typical... often stating she just won't quit flying or she's not ready yet... besides de-fuel or fly int out

747s tend to have longer rollouts unless the fuel tanks are lower.  Tulsa's 10000 foot main runway should be plenty long enough, but yeah, I get where you're coming from there.  I got so used to seeing the jumbos living near IAH in Houston back in the 90s I forgot what a show they are here since there are very few that fly in here.

[dbacksfan 2.0]

Have friends who fly big iron and have to take them to scrap ocassionally and a go around is typical... often stating she just won't quit flying or she's not ready yet... besides de-fuel or fly in out.

You should ask your friends if they have ever flown 747, DC10/MD11, or L1011 into Goodyear Airport, or Evergreen Aviation/Pinal Air Park in Arizona on the 6000' runways there. Have seen a couple of 747's going into Evergreen and they are so low and slow you would think they are going down and not landing.

[patric]

747s tend to have longer rollouts unless the fuel tanks are lower.  Tulsa's 10000 foot main runway should be plenty long enough, but yeah, I get where you're coming from there.  I got so used to seeing the jumbos living near IAH in Houston back in the 90s I forgot what a show they are here since there are very few that fly in here.

NASA flew one in and out of TUL with a shuttle on it's back, so we be good...

[MyDogHunts]

This will tell you how long ago I lived in Tulsa:  I drove to the top of the airport's runway on a section line road and watched the Concord do a trial landing.  The underside of that thing sliding across the top of us was awesome.

[heironymouspasparagus]

We used to go as a group to the airport occasionally at night to watch planes come in.  You could walk to the end of the concourse, and there were doors every so often that would let you go out onto the roof, where there were seating benches so you could sit on the roof and watch.  My favorite was always at the end door - either concourse - where you had the widest view.

The roof seating is where the gate waiting areas are now.  They just moved the walls out over that roof section and made window walls.

And that was the new airport - the one we have now!

The old airport was much smaller and there was no good seating - had to stand by the windows in the hall to watch the planes come and go.  The planes would come up to within a fairly short distance of the door where you walked out to go up the loading ladder.  Had to be careful when the planes left, 'cause if the windows were open in the hall way, they could be blown shut as the plane taxied/turned in a circle to go out to the runway.  And if you had your fingers on that window sill....  yeah...personal experience.

Air museum has either the front door or a mockup of it against one wall.

[Ed W]

I stopped by Lufthansa's boneyard yesterday as they were demolishing this 737. It was an interesting process. The landing gear had been removed and the plane was supported by wooden ties. The wrecker shown here lifted the wing while a forklift pushed the ties out from under each wing in succession. That has to be a dangerous job. After that, they pulled the aircraft off the remaining ties so the fuselage was on the ground.

Dunno what happened to the original 747 images. But I changed my URL at G+ to google.com/+EdwardJWagnerJr so that may have been the cause. As this progresses I expect to do a series.