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Boeing 747 "Dreamlifter" landed at the wrong Wichita airport last night...
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<blockquote data-quote="L8APEX" data-source="post: 13661557" data-attributes="member: 51947"><p>No visible damage to the runway, but they think it really shortened it's life. The heaviest aircraft that have used Jabara before today are maybe 60k lbs. The Dreamlifter is over 400k lbs.</p><p>it took out quite a few navigational lights, but those are easy to fix.</p><p></p><p>McConnell is "small" since it has always had to share it's space with a huge Boeing aircraft plant building bombers and commercial jets. It was originally just Wichita's airport and Stearman/Boeing before the base opened in the 50s.</p><p>Boeing/Spirit basically has the west side and the air force has the east side. But with all the facilities including 2 12k ft ruways and even more tarmac. It's still more of an aircraft plant with a huge tanker wing than an air force base.</p><p></p><p>I was stuck at the office, oddly enough just a few miles west of McConnell. But everyone here is near some sort of airport or strip...you cannot throw a rock without hitting something aircraft related in Wichita lol.</p><p></p><p>They were speaking to McConnell's tower while landing at Jabara, part of the reason they were surprised to have a turboprop go over them.</p><p>I believe here in the next few weeks we'll hear how close they were to colliding with other aircraft. I lost a friend who crashed in his '50s single engine Cessna near KC. He ended up being staked too close behind a C-130 in a landing pattern, when he hit the wake it flipped him inverted at low altitude. </p><p>Thank god no small aircraft ended up hitting the dreamlifters wake. If it was not at night Jabara would have been really busy with general aviation traffic.</p><p></p><p> MCCONNELL (IAB), ICT(Mid-continent), AAO(Jabara) have active towers.</p><p>The runway at Jabara is 18, they were cleared for McConnell 17L (yes IAB has two parallel 12k ft runways vs a single one that is half as long and only 100ft wide. ) The crew initially thought they were at Beechcraft.... which is yet another field, a bit further south but still several miles north of McConnell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="L8APEX, post: 13661557, member: 51947"] No visible damage to the runway, but they think it really shortened it's life. The heaviest aircraft that have used Jabara before today are maybe 60k lbs. The Dreamlifter is over 400k lbs. it took out quite a few navigational lights, but those are easy to fix. McConnell is "small" since it has always had to share it's space with a huge Boeing aircraft plant building bombers and commercial jets. It was originally just Wichita's airport and Stearman/Boeing before the base opened in the 50s. Boeing/Spirit basically has the west side and the air force has the east side. But with all the facilities including 2 12k ft ruways and even more tarmac. It's still more of an aircraft plant with a huge tanker wing than an air force base. I was stuck at the office, oddly enough just a few miles west of McConnell. But everyone here is near some sort of airport or strip...you cannot throw a rock without hitting something aircraft related in Wichita lol. They were speaking to McConnell's tower while landing at Jabara, part of the reason they were surprised to have a turboprop go over them. I believe here in the next few weeks we'll hear how close they were to colliding with other aircraft. I lost a friend who crashed in his '50s single engine Cessna near KC. He ended up being staked too close behind a C-130 in a landing pattern, when he hit the wake it flipped him inverted at low altitude. Thank god no small aircraft ended up hitting the dreamlifters wake. If it was not at night Jabara would have been really busy with general aviation traffic. MCCONNELL (IAB), ICT(Mid-continent), AAO(Jabara) have active towers. The runway at Jabara is 18, they were cleared for McConnell 17L (yes IAB has two parallel 12k ft runways vs a single one that is half as long and only 100ft wide. ) The crew initially thought they were at Beechcraft.... which is yet another field, a bit further south but still several miles north of McConnell. [/QUOTE]
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