Parking positions for the bigger Overseas jets...

Real Women

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Oh my dear friend. Swiss and German aviation for years and decades have seemed like undestroyable, stable like a rock, without a doubt, 200% safe.

But even since I am here, Gabriel, and I've looked it up, between the both of us are almost exactly 11 months concerning the jetphotos join date ( 01-18 and 12-12 of the year 2008_),
we both know at least 1 case where the famous Swiss and German aviation stability at least somehow was shaken.

I own a sheet of paper where I write down aviation incidents worldwide, and what you say very strongly reminds me of Samstag, 4. August 2018 .
[With a German Flight Captain on an A320 a few years earlier, March 2015, aviation history was cruel enough, RIP Captain Patrick ...]

from my sheet of paper, and as a try, without translation. If you need translation, of course I'll translate:
type: Junkers Ju-52


reg: HB-HOT
Baujahr: 1939 - also zumindest in großen Teilen, Rumpf, Flügel,...

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Well, my dear member. For such a question you are almost a little bit too far advanced... !

I became a jetphotos Junior Member back then in December 2008. We can ask seahawk (we share our home airport), if he's able to remember when I reached
jetphotos member status (100 forum entries),
afaik only 5 or 6 months after I became a Junior member. And I must publish a little jetphotos secret of mine, before I became a Junior member, I already was what you can call a passive member,
reading jetphotos at least since 2006.

And yes, with 1000 helpful useful or at least funny and friendly forum entries we all sooner or late have become a Senior.

Beyond the Senior there doesn't happen so very much. Afaik, we don't need more administrators. But what always is possible, to become friend of an administrator (but only if he's a couple of weeks younger than you).

Very very very dear greetings to Alex. ...

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As the question already has been solved by the moderator,

C, of course. 1989. And I had at least one or two questions in my mind, together with the correct answer.

Where have you been in the moment of the Fall of the Wall? and.

Why exactly don't German schools teach their pupils newer German history, i.e. everything which happened after April 30th 1945?!


PS: In my eyes, April 30th after almost 79 years is a red-letter day, ein Feiertag!

I can say, that I don't know the answer because I was at school! At school we never had newer German history after April 1945.

But I probably should still be able to give you the year the month the day and even the correct time when where what and by whom contracts were signed
during WW I (1914-1918_) , Ludendorff, OHL, ....

Which I can't. Too boring, compared to newer German history (after April 1945).

But back on topic now, if we...

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I think I can confirm what Tom said. But what an old old very old photo we are talkin about here..

Only 6 or 8 months younger than my avatar (which of course is a jetphoto). And again I like to do something against my language barrier, ... a Ferris wheel must be the No 5
on this little jet, although I've not so often seen a green one, in German 'Riesenrad'.

London is very probable. Vienna doesn't show so many 'round' or 'elliptical' cabines. And all the other big wheels would rather take place on a LH-B744 livery (or comparable),
so to speak, all the other big wheels are outside of Europe (?). Only a rough guess.

PS: And those were the days when Lufthansa was allowed to officially use the word Moscow, as part of a worldwide shown livery? Quite impossible and unthinkable if you ask me today...

The German edition of 'Who wants to be a millionaire' recently contained a question which fits quite perfectly to this livery......

Discover the world of night dating.

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Well. As this week by someone was started with a crash of a 984 ft long cargo ship into a really beautiful now no longer existent Interstate I-695 bridge, let's talk about..
the bigger Overseas pedal boats and where the parking positions are.
Since the end of the pestilence again allows us to fly with our beloved passengers and not only with empty B744 jets to avoid that LH-B744 Flight Captains lose their B744 skills,
aviation history again shows interesting developments.

Afaik, the BA-B744 really is aviation history. None of these jets have survived the pestilence. So, what do they do on the British Island? They really fly again the
bigger than big jet. I like to find out the destination for this one, with not only a radius 36,0 m parking position for B744, but also at least one official radius 46,0 m parking position for A388.

https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/11245287

And that's why I love jetphotos. If you know how the database...

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March 2021 - A similar accident as in Baltimore before has happened, in Egypt. An incredibly huge overseas freighter hammers down (dt.: einschlagen)
the bank slope of the Suez Canal.
In the morning of March 23rd 2021 (always in March, all and every 3 years...) Egyptian local time 07:40 the
Suez Canal
by the impact of a more than 1300 ft long Overseas freighter into the bank slope (Uferböschung) was strongly battered.

The gigantic Overseas freighter who has caused the accident in March 2021 was the Ever Given, of the Evergreen shipping line. The Ever Given under the flag of Panama by then was on her way
from Malaysia to Rotterdam, a short spec sheet...
[I can add that if you like.]

To make a long story short. Try to imagine you are captain on the MV Dalia, captain on bridge. With a nice cup of coffee you look portside outside the windows. And then
the Ever Given comes midships.

I've never felt small in my whole...

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Wow. Fast response, I love that

But you probably haven't read yet everything that I've added to my number one entry here since 01:00 CET (Central European Winter Time).

And I have closed my number one entry here with a question. A question that also you might have wondered...

Nevertheless, very very VERY dear greetings from Europe across the pond to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean !

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I still wonder how a jetphotos junior member should be treated who's here since less than two weeks. Ok, he has tried to upload a so called 'photoshopped' photo
into the jetphotos database queue, i.e. a photo which is not Original any longer, and that not only once, but he tried it twice with exactly the same altered Original (?) .

But people are young, I was young 15 years ago when I became a jetphotos member. So, I assume that this is a sentence which should be there for all new jetphotos members all the time,
every time when they log in, within the first 4 weeks at least:
Do not try to upload altered Originals! You better visit the place again and come back with a photo that fulfils the jetphotos quality criteria and the jetphotos photo upload criteria.

I dont' know if there is such a friendly help for all new members. But back on topic.

Baltimore.

In the night from Monday to Tuesday March 26th 2024 01:27 a.m. local...

[LH-B744]

Hm. Yes. I can confirm that...

But I also wonder what has happened here. We talk about a Jetphotos Junior Member who joyfully has joined our beloved forum on March 15th 2024, so, he (or she) is a forum member
not yet since 2 weeks.

And (let's say he's male) he has now received a ban until September 2024?

Again, I don't know yet what has happened here, but in my eyes and with this brandnew shiny member, a 6 months ban really seems a bit harsh....

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... So. What you prefer to call 'Old 2000', that's what I'd call the Original LH-B744 nightblue of 1997. But even that's not completely true. Because ..

the LH-B744 nightblue of my avatar (KSFO 2007 or 2008_) already existed before the Star Alliance in 1997 was founded. As with the help of the jetphotos database can easily be shown:

https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/10191352

Lufthansa auf Kai Tak. With not really my avatar, but with exactly (!) the same livery of my avatar, June 1994, type LH-B744, airport VHHH Kai Tak, the 35 year B744 anniversary livery, because,
as far as I know, the first LH-B744 ever with Lufthansa crew took off in the year 1989. Too much? But I have more!

Between 89 and 97, all LH-B744 took off without a sign which today you'd miss on a LH-B744: The Star Alliance sign, only since 1997 between the 1R door and the cockpit window area.

... I always call it the Lufthansa 747 Star Alliance 1997...

[LH-B744]

Harr. Good to have you here "LIVE on TV".

I only quote you as far as that, and I already love it. I just wonder if you like the long story. It's sunday. Why make a good story shorter than it is good.

To begin with your assumption

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that's only a little mistake, but what you think is 'old 2000', indeed is very much older. You probably shouldn't call me a Lufthansa expert, for this topic you better ask the Lufthansa CEO.

But you can call me a LH-B744 addict, which includes almost all German 747s, the Lufthansa 747 history since April 1970,

the Aviation Chief Engineer Joe Sutter of Boeing (March 21st 1921 - August 30th 2016) , who in 1965 invented the 747, and who used his wife to mark the 3090 m point

where until today all LH-B744 lift off.

Let's see not only for pictures, but for jetphotos:

https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/6463299
Lufthansa in Australia,...

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And Vishal Jolapara, most of the time only called VJ.

PS: Ask me names, I don't know where from I inherited this human brain space for names. And for pictures. Chhatrapati Shivaji, by night...

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And B773ER Flight Captain Les Abend.

No Abend is a good Abend until Captain Abend makes it a good Abend. Really the good old jetphotos times...

34 years for one and the same airline...

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Let me add that Stefan Kuhn is very probably the one and only jetphotos member who has more knowledge about our home airport than me. We btw share the same home airport.

And after all those years, I'm a little bit proud of that. The Gold Medal for Kuhn's 20 years here on this platform .

And if you ask me, I'll start the next 15 years here at jetphotos. And greetings to my young friend, Alex.

PS: Gerardo and Brian. Yes. Alex, how long must a jetphotos member be a jetphotos member to still know these two good guys. I'd say, 15 years?

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No. By this Sunday morning, we obviously are already 3 .

And I assume that we can also count the current Lufthansa CEO as friend number 4. Without him, this jetphoto wouldn't have happened:
https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/11163488


PS: If I can still trust my now again 1 year older eyes, the good grandfathers eyes (no glasses until the age of 51... hu ha.... ... ), which I obviously have inherited, let's see what I can make with them...
Isn't in this beautiful jetphoto more than only one 747?! Above the LH-B744, I can see a UPS jet, and next to that... an Atlas Air B744?...

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My dear new friend! ...

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Another simple question. What's the early bird, e.g. on your home airport, or on an airport that you've seen recently..?

Now, that again says something about myself, when the night shift has begun, for such a little aviation enthusiast like me, Saturday evening 2200 Lohausen time zone.
For 'normal people', i.e. people who get paid for their time at my home airport, this goes until... Sunday morning 0700 as I assume.

Now there again are even two differences. 1. I don't get paid my so called 'night shift' at my home airport since Saturday evening. 2. Aviation enthusiasts are not normal, so,
here I am.

Sunday morning 0415. Almost one hour before the supermarket opens. And I was early there, to buy a cheese for the sunday breakfast. And I assumed that I'm alone on my home airport,
sunday morning 0415 a.m.
Never in my life I was so completely wrong. I know my home airport a little bit, but what I didn't know that at least three...

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Well. I assume that since the beginning of the year 2024, we have alot of Junior Members here, who have written their first forum entry (or even more). And I just try to remember
how I felt before I wrote my first jetphotos forum entry ever, back then in 2008, so, 15 years ago.

And it hasn't changed imho, not since 15 years. With my first jetphotos forum entry, there didn't arise (dt.: es kam nicht auf) a big happening with champagne, as far as I remember.

But why not. A simple reason. All the experienced jetphotos members back then in 2008 thought, ah, one another new member. Next!

Today it is a little bit like that, but with one difference. Today, I am the experienced jetphotos member.



You don't know yet how young I am .. Young enough to be your dad (and not your grandpa)?
[I only ask because here on this platform this happens to me more often than ten years ago....... ]

Nevertheless, the...