Crosswind Landing Testing - This little item shows the Boeing factory determining the demonstrated crosswind landing limits on the 777 and the 747SP. The engineers make educated guesses, but then the test crews have to go actually prove the numbers. They sneak off to Brazil to do these tests at a certain remote BAF airbase famous for its continual crosswinds... I never knew a 747 could fly sideways!
Filmed from the checkerboard used for the approach into Kai Tak. Overshoots and then lines it up just to get caught in the wind...again. Unedited. You can hear another enthusiast in the background with a scanner
An amazingly risky landing made by a Korean Air 747 at Hong Kong's defunct Kai Tak International. If you look closely you can see that they actually touch down before the threshold.
Passengers too the left to change shorts.
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