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Mar 10^th, 2008 at 10:09pm

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A British Airways 747. Ive seen them fly into San Diego in person. What a site! C&C please.

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Reply #1 - Mar 11^th, 2008 at 12:40am

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Personal gripes:

The engines on the plane are wrong. BA used RB211 engines on their 747s, and yours has CF-6s.

The textures are very low-res, making the lane look a little iffy close up.

None of this is your fault, though, I'm just horrendously spoiled by PMDG. Cheesy

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Reply #2 - Mar 11^th, 2008 at 1:59am

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Not all BA 744's use RR engines dude, I know for a fact that none of the ones I've flown on had RR's. And a lot of the ones (Just kidding, some) of the ones I've seen at Heathrow, Vancouver, a few other places, they didn't have RR's. But yeah, textures are a little low-res. Nice shots though!One of my favourites! Love BA!

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Reply #3 - Mar 11^th, 2008 at 3:01am

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you forgot to mention that maybe only a dozen 747's ever land there. to big planes, and to steep aproch. they would most likely land from the east as well on runway 9. no buildings in they way do to city hi rise. in the past 15 yrs living in San Diego i know of only 1 747 that was here. it was crazy to see such a plane on a small tarmac.

just my food for thought, please dont beat me up to bad. i know some one will come up with some off the wall video of a 747 at KSAN.

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Reply #4 - Mar 11^th, 2008 at 10:22am

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The3lf wrote on Mar 11^th, 2008 at 3:01am:

i know some one will come up with some off the wall video of a 747 at KSAN.

Not a video but four pages of photo's Grin

including a lot of very nice British Airways 747's Tongue

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Reply #5 - Mar 11^th, 2008 at 2:29pm

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Harold wrote on Mar 11^th, 2008 at 10:22am:

The3lf wrote on Mar 11^th, 2008 at 3:01am:

i know some one will come up with some off the wall video of a 747 at KSAN.

Not a video but four pages of photo's Grin

including a lot of very nice British Airways 747's Tongue

I guess you can say my inspiration for these screenshots came from that very site! Plus my memory once it got going, remembering seeing that BA 747 on final from my grandmothers place!

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Reply #6 - Mar 11^th, 2008 at 4:01pm

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Turn the traffic down and turn everything else up Shocked

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Reply #7 - Mar 11^th, 2008 at 4:34pm

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Reno wrote on Mar 11^th, 2008 at 1:59am:

Not all BA 744's use RR engines dude, I know for a fact that none of the ones I've flown on had RR's. And a lot of the ones (Just kidding, some) of the ones I've seen at Heathrow, Vancouver, a few other places, they didn't have RR's.

*Makes wrong buzzer noise*

Explain this then:
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However, with the exception of 29 of its 777 fleet, it has often equipped its Boeing aircraft with British-made Rolls-Royce engines (examples include the Trent 800 on its Boeing 777s, the RB211-524 on its 747-400s and 767s and also RB211-535s on its 757-200s). This goes back to the 1960s when the company ordered Boeing 707s — a condition was placed on the company that it used Rolls-Royce power for the new jets.

^sporked from Wikipedia

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Reply #8 - Mar 11^th, 2008 at 7:29pm

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It's Wiki. May not be right.

I'm just saying the ones I've seen on BA birds I've flown on (744's) they certainly didn't have RR engines.

Either way, RR or not, the BA 744 is one nice lookin' jet.

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Reply #9 - Mar 11^th, 2008 at 10:50pm

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Wii wrote on Mar 11^th, 2008 at 4:01pm:

Turn the traffic down and turn everything else up Shocked

Used that advice for some of my shots from tonight. Posted up as randoms. I do think they are better! Although my comp cant handle much more it seems!

My specs... A hard drive, motherboard, graphics card, some memory, a keyboard, mouse, and monitor - in other words, nothing special.&&&&My Posky 777 VC settings - http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1218341439&&Posky 777 and FSX jetways - http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1228448408

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