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LH-B744
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Last Activity: Today, 05:55
Joined: 2008-12-12
Location: 1 hr away from EDDL
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  • Parking positions for the bigger Overseas jets...

    Well. As this week by someone was started with a crash of a 984 ft long cargo ship into a really beautiful now no longer existent Interstate I-695 bridge, let's talk about..
    the bigger Overseas pedal boats and where the parking positions are.
    Since the end of the pestilence again allows us to fly with our beloved passengers and not only with empty B744 jets to avoid that LH-B744 Flight Captains lose their B744 skills,
    aviation history again shows interesting developments.

    Afaik, the BA-B744 really is aviation history. None of these jets have survived the pestilence. So, what do they do on the British Island? They really fly again the
    bigger than big jet. I like to find out the destination for this one, with not only a radius 36,0 m parking position for B744, but also at least one official radius 46,0 m parking position for A388.

    https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/11245287

    And that's why I love jetphotos. If you know how the database...
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  • LH-B744
    replied to Baltimore, Maryland.
    March 2021 - A similar accident as in Baltimore before has happened, in Egypt. An incredibly huge overseas freighter hammers down (dt.: einschlagen)
    the bank slope of the Suez Canal.
    In the morning of March 23rd 2021 (always in March, all and every 3 years...) Egyptian local time 07:40 the
    Suez Canal
    by the impact of a more than 1300 ft long Overseas freighter into the bank slope (Uferböschung) was strongly battered.

    The gigantic Overseas freighter who has caused the accident in March 2021 was the Ever Given, of the Evergreen shipping line. The Ever Given under the flag of Panama by then was on her way
    from Malaysia to Rotterdam, a short spec sheet...
    [I can add that if you like.]

    To make a long story short. Try to imagine you are captain on the MV Dalia, captain on bridge. With a nice cup of coffee you look portside outside the windows. And then
    the Ever Given comes midships.

    I've never felt small in my whole...
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    Last edited by LH-B744; Today, 04:06. Reason: Bigger than big isn't always good if you urgently need a parking position.

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  • LH-B744
    replied to Baltimore, Maryland.
    Wow. Fast response, I love that

    But you probably haven't read yet everything that I've added to my number one entry here since 01:00 CET (Central European Winter Time).

    And I have closed my number one entry here with a question. A question that also you might have wondered...

    Nevertheless, very very VERY dear greetings from Europe across the pond to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean !
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  • LH-B744
    started a topic Baltimore, Maryland.

    Baltimore, Maryland.

    I still wonder how a jetphotos junior member should be treated who's here since less than two weeks. Ok, he has tried to upload a so called 'photoshopped' photo
    into the jetphotos database queue, i.e. a photo which is not Original any longer, and that not only once, but he tried it twice with exactly the same altered Original (?) .

    But people are young, I was young 15 years ago when I became a jetphotos member. So, I assume that this is a sentence which should be there for all new jetphotos members all the time,
    every time when they log in, within the first 4 weeks at least:
    Do not try to upload altered Originals! You better visit the place again and come back with a photo that fulfils the jetphotos quality criteria and the jetphotos photo upload criteria.

    I dont' know if there is such a friendly help for all new members. But back on topic.

    Baltimore.

    In the night from Monday to Tuesday March 26th 2024 01:27 a.m. local...
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    Last edited by LH-B744; Today, 00:53. Reason: In how far is the rudder of a ship, or the aileron of a 747 operational, with all engines off?

  • Hm. Yes. I can confirm that...

    But I also wonder what has happened here. We talk about a Jetphotos Junior Member who joyfully has joined our beloved forum on March 15th 2024, so, he (or she) is a forum member
    not yet since 2 weeks.

    And (let's say he's male) he has now received a ban until September 2024?

    Again, I don't know yet what has happened here, but in my eyes and with this brandnew shiny member, a 6 months ban really seems a bit harsh....
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  • LH-B744
    replied to LUFTHANSA LIVERY
    ... So. What you prefer to call 'Old 2000', that's what I'd call the Original LH-B744 nightblue of 1997. But even that's not completely true. Because ..

    the LH-B744 nightblue of my avatar (KSFO 2007 or 2008_) already existed before the Star Alliance in 1997 was founded. As with the help of the jetphotos database can easily be shown:

    https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/10191352

    Lufthansa auf Kai Tak. With not really my avatar, but with exactly (!) the same livery of my avatar, June 1994, type LH-B744, airport VHHH Kai Tak, the 35 year B744 anniversary livery, because,
    as far as I know, the first LH-B744 ever with Lufthansa crew took off in the year 1989. Too much? But I have more!

    Between 89 and 97, all LH-B744 took off without a sign which today you'd miss on a LH-B744: The Star Alliance sign, only since 1997 between the 1R door and the cockpit window area.

    ... I always call it the Lufthansa 747 Star Alliance 1997...
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  • LH-B744
    replied to LUFTHANSA LIVERY
    Harr. Good to have you here "LIVE on TV".

    I only quote you as far as that, and I already love it. I just wonder if you like the long story. It's sunday. Why make a good story shorter than it is good.

    To begin with your assumption

    ,

    that's only a little mistake, but what you think is 'old 2000', indeed is very much older. You probably shouldn't call me a Lufthansa expert, for this topic you better ask the Lufthansa CEO.

    But you can call me a LH-B744 addict, which includes almost all German 747s, the Lufthansa 747 history since April 1970,

    the Aviation Chief Engineer Joe Sutter of Boeing (March 21st 1921 - August 30th 2016) , who in 1965 invented the 747, and who used his wife to mark the 3090 m point

    where until today all LH-B744 lift off.

    Let's see not only for pictures, but for jetphotos:

    https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/6463299
    Lufthansa in Australia,...
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  • And Vishal Jolapara, most of the time only called VJ.

    PS: Ask me names, I don't know where from I inherited this human brain space for names. And for pictures. Chhatrapati Shivaji, by night...

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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-03-17, 11:21. Reason: Chhatrapati Shivaji, by night...

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  • And B773ER Flight Captain Les Abend.

    No Abend is a good Abend until Captain Abend makes it a good Abend. Really the good old jetphotos times...

    34 years for one and the same airline...
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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-03-17, 11:00. Reason: Abend is a good German word. In English: evening.

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  • Let me add that Stefan Kuhn is very probably the one and only jetphotos member who has more knowledge about our home airport than me. We btw share the same home airport.

    And after all those years, I'm a little bit proud of that. The Gold Medal for Kuhn's 20 years here on this platform .

    And if you ask me, I'll start the next 15 years here at jetphotos. And greetings to my young friend, Alex.

    PS: Gerardo and Brian. Yes. Alex, how long must a jetphotos member be a jetphotos member to still know these two good guys. I'd say, 15 years?
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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-03-17, 10:52. Reason: Gerardo and Brian.

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  • LH-B744
    replied to LUFTHANSA LIVERY
    No. By this Sunday morning, we obviously are already 3 .

    And I assume that we can also count the current Lufthansa CEO as friend number 4. Without him, this jetphoto wouldn't have happened:
    https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/11163488


    PS: If I can still trust my now again 1 year older eyes, the good grandfathers eyes (no glasses until the age of 51... hu ha.... ... ), which I obviously have inherited, let's see what I can make with them...
    Isn't in this beautiful jetphoto more than only one 747?! Above the LH-B744, I can see a UPS jet, and next to that... an Atlas Air B744?...
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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-03-17, 10:16. Reason: No glasses since 1978.

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  • LH-B744
    replied to LUFTHANSA LIVERY
    My dear new friend! ...
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  • LH-B744
    started a topic The early bird.

    The early bird.

    Another simple question. What's the early bird, e.g. on your home airport, or on an airport that you've seen recently..?

    Now, that again says something about myself, when the night shift has begun, for such a little aviation enthusiast like me, Saturday evening 2200 Lohausen time zone.
    For 'normal people', i.e. people who get paid for their time at my home airport, this goes until... Sunday morning 0700 as I assume.

    Now there again are even two differences. 1. I don't get paid my so called 'night shift' at my home airport since Saturday evening. 2. Aviation enthusiasts are not normal, so,
    here I am.

    Sunday morning 0415. Almost one hour before the supermarket opens. And I was early there, to buy a cheese for the sunday breakfast. And I assumed that I'm alone on my home airport,
    sunday morning 0415 a.m.
    Never in my life I was so completely wrong. I know my home airport a little bit, but what I didn't know that at least three...
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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-03-17, 09:08. Reason: I'll kill the KI the next time it alters one of my forum entries!!

  • Well. I assume that since the beginning of the year 2024, we have alot of Junior Members here, who have written their first forum entry (or even more). And I just try to remember
    how I felt before I wrote my first jetphotos forum entry ever, back then in 2008, so, 15 years ago.

    And it hasn't changed imho, not since 15 years. With my first jetphotos forum entry, there didn't arise (dt.: es kam nicht auf) a big happening with champagne, as far as I remember.

    But why not. A simple reason. All the experienced jetphotos members back then in 2008 thought, ah, one another new member. Next!

    Today it is a little bit like that, but with one difference. Today, I am the experienced jetphotos member.



    You don't know yet how young I am .. Young enough to be your dad (and not your grandpa)?
    [I only ask because here on this platform this happens to me more often than ten years ago....... ]

    Nevertheless, the...
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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-03-17, 07:54. Reason: Thanks for the 'now old enough' greeting card. :-D

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  • Not only because I sometimes think that I see a 744 freighter or rather 748 freighter here in the sky in Germany.
    I had the idea for this topic due to television. Everything that possibly could go wrong sooner or later will be on television. You've fed your hamster with a five feet long salami and it went totally wrong, be sure it is on television.

    But how was an experienced Flight Captain with 6406 flight hours for his airline able to destroy his working place, his A300F, on short final to KBHM .

    It all had begun with a NOTAM, and after what I've seen on TV I tend to call it a rather fatal NOTAM: 'KBHM rwy 06/24 today is completely closed and n/a for landing.'

    06/24 with a lenght of 3660m or 12,007ft is n/a for landing. But if you ask me and my avatar, that's what I had preferred!

    Obviously, the F/O on that flight very clearly accepted the KBHM rwy 18, although that is only half as long as the 06/24, the 18 until today is only...
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