Sun Country 727 video at Laughlin

[RNO-Alien]

http://www.jetvideos.net/video/view.php?id=85

check this video out of the SC 727 departing Laughlin.....note how much runway this puppy uses...about 95% before the wheels lift. I have another SC 727 landing on a different date before this one....and it is real dicey, as i thought it was to run off the end...but didn't. I'll work to post that one in the near future.

[SMF Ken Cheung]

good show, B727 similiar to Mad dog it takes a long distance to lift off, last week when i was spotting at KRNO, AA mad Dog had her gear lift up just abt few hundred feet bfr 34L therhold.:coolglasses:

[Mike Evans]

http://www.jetvideos.net/video/view.php?id=85

check this video out of the SC 727 departing Laughlin.....note how much runway this puppy uses...about 95% before the wheels lift. I have another SC 727 landing on a different date before this one....and it is real dicey, as i thought it was to run off the end...but didn't. I'll work to post that one in the near future.

Geez! :eek:

[nevadadon]

Wow that was interesting.

Reminds me of a time I was ops agent for Frontier in RNO. They subd a 737 with -9 engines instead of our usual -11's.

The pilot asked us to check for sagebrush stuck in the gear when he left. We were always having to take passengers off the acft on hot days with the -9's.

Don

[RNO-Alien]

Thanks Men..........I was shocked the 1st time I saw a 727 on final to Laughlin...wondering how in the heck are they going to get it off the ground when it left. I wasn't disappointed.

NevadaDon - yes..that is correct on the older 737...they are not good in hot weather loaded..wish i could have gotten that on video.

SMF Ken.....true,,I have another TWA video at SJC posted same website...that did the same thing you describe. The 1st TWA MD-80 out of SJC in the AM was usually a 'heavy"............they used a heck of a lot of runway - summer or not.