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LH-B744
LH-B744
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Last Activity: 2024-03-17, 14:18
Joined: 2008-12-12
Location: 1 hr away from EDDL
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  • LH-B744
    replied to LUFTHANSA LIVERY
    ... 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...
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  • LH-B744
    replied to LUFTHANSA LIVERY
    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

    ,

    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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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-03-17, 11:00. Reason: Abend is a good German word. In English: evening.

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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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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-03-17, 10:52. Reason: Gerardo and Brian.

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  • LH-B744
    replied to LUFTHANSA LIVERY
    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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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-03-17, 10:16. Reason: No glasses since 1978.

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  • LH-B744
    replied to LUFTHANSA LIVERY
    My dear new friend! ...
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  • LH-B744
    started a topic The early bird.

    The early bird.

    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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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-03-17, 09:08. Reason: I'll kill the KI the next time it alters one of my forum entries!!

  • 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...
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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-03-17, 07:54. Reason: Thanks for the 'now old enough' greeting card. :-D

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  • eagerrocked
    eagerrocked posted a Visitor Message for LH-B744
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  • Not only because I sometimes think that I see a 744 freighter or rather 748 freighter here in the sky in Germany.
    I had the idea for this topic due to television. Everything that possibly could go wrong sooner or later will be on television. You've fed your hamster with a five feet long salami and it went totally wrong, be sure it is on television.

    But how was an experienced Flight Captain with 6406 flight hours for his airline able to destroy his working place, his A300F, on short final to KBHM .

    It all had begun with a NOTAM, and after what I've seen on TV I tend to call it a rather fatal NOTAM: 'KBHM rwy 06/24 today is completely closed and n/a for landing.'

    06/24 with a lenght of 3660m or 12,007ft is n/a for landing. But if you ask me and my avatar, that's what I had preferred!

    Obviously, the F/O on that flight very clearly accepted the KBHM rwy 18, although that is only half as long as the 06/24, the 18 until today is only...
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  • Fatal accident with an Airbus A300 freighter

    A few days ago, so to speak everything new for the new year (which is not quite true if we look at my beloved avatar ) ,
    I rearranged my favorite TV stations. And there are at least 2 or 3 German TV stations (dmax, welt, ...) who mostly by night broadcast aviation safety topics.

    This is what I'm talking about - and pls - sometimes I think that this forum is rather not for people who are younger than 18. But if you have children born after 2010, then you might at least watch them when they open the following link, a completely dead aircraft is not what I'd show to an all too young audience... [Lenny Kravitz - The Chamber (the video)]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_1354

    I have a paper where I write down aviation safety topics since 1988 (or before). And that always happens with the same structure:
    Date - 14 August 2013
    a/c type - Airbus A300-600F freighter
    departure - KSDF Louisville Kentuck Intl...
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  • This list by far does not claim to be complete....

    I always wonder and I always wonder since 2008 why nobody since more than 15 years here at jetphotos feels responsible for EDDF Rhein/Main International.

    HEY! I can do alot, but I am not Chief Flight Captain Carsten Spohr, who also since the year 2014 is my favorite Lufthansa CEO (!).
    He (also) must be a LH-B744 lover. And the first man within my favorite airline who again has ordered the B737 for Lufthansa (?!) .

    I don't know everything about each and every airport in Germany.

    For the news of how many German airports can I be responsible... I'd say five, and all of them have a rather long Lufthansa history (and all numbers are very subjective, based on
    real friendship or at least long lasting sympathy):
    1. EDDL Lohausen International (est 1927)
    2. EDFZ Mainz, due to my love to that astonishingly small city.
    3. EDDS Stuttgart, or as I call that 'Leinfelden-Echterdingen...
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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-02-29, 04:00. Reason: Austin-Bergstrom.

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  • daliri1
    daliri1 posted a Visitor Message for LH-B744
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  • Well, or should I rather say, not so well, überhaupt gar nicht gut. As I own a Beech B200 simulator, I do not only feel responsible for my home airport EDDL .

    The following German airports are also without buses, trams and underground trains:
    EDFZ Flugplatz Mainz - [Mainzer Straßenbahnen website is just overloaded with web traffic, thus you might try one of these]
    https://www.mainz.de/leben-und-arbei...s-und-bahn.php
    https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinl...eitag-100.html

    EDDS Flughafen Stuttgart Leinfelden-Echterdingen
    https://www.ssb-ag.de/die-ssb-wird-bestreikt/

    This list by far does not claim to be complete....

    PS: And for the SSB AG I must say the same. If I were Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen Administrator, I'd replace "ÖPNV-Streik 2023"
    by ÖPNV-Streik 2024 (!) ............... .......
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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-02-29, 01:29. Reason: ...if I were a Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen Administrator...

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  • Well. I know that I sometimes use a little bit too much beer especially when I'm online here at jetphotos. I once must've said something like.., one or two circumstances in life are better
    with a beer in your hand.

    I don't know if today is again such a day, but for all passengers of EDDL Düsseldorf Lohausen International Airport, I have found this link:
    https://www.rheinbahn.de/streik

    No Rheinbahn buses, No underground trains (dt.: U-Bahn), no trams, and that's not only true for EDDL airport Terminal A bus station,

    but as I fear that's true for the whole city of Düsseldorf (!), i.e. also for the Düsseldorf main train station metro station (dt.: Düsseldorf Hbf U-Bahn Station).

    PS: Since 1978, I am a fan of the Rheinbahn underground trains. But since this thursday, I'd say,

    you must own a car, to be a fan of the Rheinbahn underground trains.

    Admittedly, that sounds stupid. But sometimes stupidity is...
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    Last edited by LH-B744; 2024-02-29, 00:53. Reason: ...if I were a Rheinbahn administrator.

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