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Paris to London Old fashion Way

Postby foo_fighter » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:32 pm

:) ;) :D ;D

Continuing my tour through Europe I made the leg Paris (Charles de Gaulle) London (Heathrow) in my National Airlines DC-7 model, 7000 ft, 250kt average one hour trip. Here are some pics

Almost touching Brit's soil
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I just love to see that huge facility and the bridge while flying over London
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Gears are goin down
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I almost can see England
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Smiiiile! a very good close up
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Ahhh! Here comes the sun!
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Aurrevoir Paris!
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Re: Paris to London Old fashion Way

Postby Omag 2.0 » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:39 pm

I think you got them in reverse!  ;D

Nice shots of a beautiful propliner!

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Re: Paris to London Old fashion Way

Postby Woodlouse2002 » Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:05 pm

That "facility" is the one and only Battersea Power station. ;)

I particularly like the way you arrive at paris with the words "till we meet again!" ;D

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Re: Paris to London Old fashion Way

Postby SideWinder9 » Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:07 pm

Cool! You Definitley got them in backwards order!
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Re: Paris to London Old fashion Way

Postby atotti2000 » Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:12 pm

Amazing Pics mate.
i love the ones with sun and lens affects in :D.
Your plane does have an extraordinary long ID number doesnt it  :P ::)

and when you were at paris, were you bombarded with taxiway numbers.
i had a pageful when i landed there recently. ;)

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Re: Paris to London Old fashion Way

Postby foo_fighter » Sat Apr 17, 2004 10:05 pm

:) ;) :D ;D

yup guys all in reverse LOL  :-[ :-X :-[ ;D

thanks for your kindly words and the info about Battersea Power Station, Wood!

Atotti it's really a letter soup A B W TD W E W geeeeez!
LOL and it's aveeery long number indeed
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Re: Paris to London Old fashion Way

Postby ATI_7500 » Sun Apr 18, 2004 5:56 am

"Gears are going down" reminds me of the DC-7s airbrake: The main gear! ;D
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Re: Paris to London Old fashion Way

Postby foo_fighter » Sun Apr 18, 2004 12:02 pm

:) ;) :D ;D

yup Doc, indeed the airbrake is the main gear, lil weird, uhn?

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Re: Paris to London Old fashion Way

Postby GeForce » Sun Apr 18, 2004 12:56 pm

Great shots, very nice ;)
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Re: Paris to London Old fashion Way

Postby ATI_7500 » Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:38 pm

:) ;) :D ;D

yup Doc, indeed the airbrake is the main gear, lil weird, uhn?



Yup. I quite remember the shock when I've deployed them accidentally by pressing an unsuspicious button on the panel. I switched to the "spot" view to look at the gorgeous exterior of the "Seven Seas" when I realized that my main gear was down. I first thought that there was something wrong with the gears and I violently tried to get the main gear up again with the normal "gear up/down" button. I was about to panick when I finally tried out the "spoilers extend/retract" key and voil
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Re: Paris to London Old fashion Way

Postby foo_fighter » Sun Apr 18, 2004 3:25 pm

:) ;) :D ;D

some time ago Ive made just the same, shame on us  
:-X :-/ :P:-[

LOL

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Re: Paris to London Old fashion Way

Postby ATI_7500 » Mon Apr 19, 2004 10:08 am

Yup. Better read the manual the next time...;D
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