The Aviation Thread [Contains Lots of Awesome Pictures]

[video]https://youtu.be/Ca3rE01YfFk?t=1m56s[/video]

Was pretty happy with this approach, had a direct 6 kts tailwind. My friend was responsible for the vertical filming, not me!
 
Still puzzled by the mystery of missing flight MH370, Malaysian airport authorities now have the opposite problem: three Boeing 747 planes left unclaimed at the country's main airport.

The operators of Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) have placed a bizarre advertisement in a Malaysian newspaper seeking the owners of three 747-200F aircraft apparently abandoned there.

"If you fail to collect the aircraft within 14 days of the date of this notice, we reserve the right to sell or otherwise dispose of the aircraft" under Malaysian regulations, said the ad which ran in Monday's edition of The Star.

The notice was addressed to the "untraceable owner" of the planes.

Zainol Mohd Isa, general manager of Malaysia Airports (Sepang), which operates the facility, said the airport had been trying to contact the planes' last known owners.

He said they were "international" and not Malaysian, but declined to give further details.

"I don?t know why they are not responding. There could be many reasons. Sometimes it could be because they have no money to continue operations," Zainol said.

In addition to wanting the planes to be claimed, he said the airport is seeking payment from the owners for landing, parking and other charges.

If no payment is received by December 21, the planes will be auctioned or sold for scrap to recoup the outstanding charges.

The notice gave the planes' registration numbers as TF-ARM, TF-ARN, and TF-ARH. Zainol said two are passenger aircraft and one is a cargo plane.

It is not the first time this has happened at the airport, Zainol added.

In the past decade a few other planes, mostly smaller aircraft, were abandoned.

He said an aircraft that was abandoned in the 1990s was eventually bought and turned into a restaurant in a Kuala Lumpur suburb.

KLIA was the origin of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared after taking off on March 8, 2014 with 239 passengers and crew aboard in what remains one of aviation's greatest mysteries.

Malaysia earlier this year confirmed that a wing part found on the French island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean was from the plane. But no further wreckage has been found despite an intensive Australian-led oceanic search.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...e-claim-your-boeing-747s/ar-AAga0gU?ocid=iehp

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LOL. They should fly them over to Germany and park them at BER. There's lots of unused parking space there.
 
Dear Santa...


...I've been very good this year! :drool:

Having grown up where these were originally built in the 1920s and 30s, I quickly fell in love with the WACOs. These reproductions are incredibly close to the originals right down to that glorious radial engine roar.
 
Catalina was the airport I mean

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Home of the mother fucking Catalina wine mixer
 
So you're saying I can fly my Catalina to Catalina and have a salad with Catalina dressing and wash it down with a Catalina wine mixer?
 
They don't like my paperwork either :(


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Those are 747-200s, which means their next destination will most likely be a bone yard.
 
The chances of them ever getting off the ground are slim to none, actually. The weather has probably killed them already
 
That poor airplane. It pains me that the VERY FIRST 747 ever built ended up like that. I want to go burn it to the ground, so it at least has some sort of dignified end.

2nd one built, first one to be flown commercially according to the link.

EDIT: The first one is in much better condition

EDIT 2: Looks like the 5th 747 is currently the oldest active one. Followed by #8 and 9.

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