Simviation Forum - Paris to London Old fashion Way

Apr 17^th, 2004 at 5:32pm

foo_fighter Offline
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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

I just love to see that huge facility and the bridge while flying over London

Gears are goin down

I almost can see England

Smiiiile! a very good close up

Ahhh! Here comes the sun!

Aurrevoir Paris!

what do U think?

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Reply #1 - Apr 17^th, 2004 at 5:39pm

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I think you got them in reverse! Grin

Nice shots of a beautiful propliner!

Enjoy your tour!

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Reply #2 - Apr 17^th, 2004 at 6:05pm

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

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

Nice pics.

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Reply #3 - Apr 17^th, 2004 at 6:07pm

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Cool! You Definitley got them in backwards order!

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Reply #4 - Apr 17^th, 2004 at 6:12pm

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Amazing Pics mate.
i love the ones with sun and lens affects in Cheesy

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Your plane does have an extraordinary long ID number doesnt it Tongue

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

thanks

ant

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Reply #5 - Apr 17^th, 2004 at 11:05pm

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yup guys all in reverse LOL Embarrassed

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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Reply #6 - Apr 18^th, 2004 at 6:56am

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"Gears are going down" reminds me of the DC-7s airbrake: The main gear! Grin

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Reply #7 - Apr 18^th, 2004 at 1:02pm

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

cya

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Reply #8 - Apr 18^th, 2004 at 1:56pm

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Great shots, very nice Wink

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Reply #9 - Apr 18^th, 2004 at 2:38pm

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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 voilà,it worked.
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