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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by bowsamic on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @04:43AM (#33892467)
I live directly under the flight path for the Beluga's landing in the Hamburg airbus site, in a nice area north of the Elbe river.

One interesting thing about the Beluga: the pilots very often fail to land them and have to do multiple attempts! The Beluga landing is kind of loud, but it's nothing compared to the sound of the engines when they pull up after a failed attempt

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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by akiselev on Thursday December 08, 2022 @01:18AM (#33904810)
> One interesting thing about the Beluga: the pilots very often fail to land them and have to do multiple attempts!

They're likely just doing a fly by for a visual inspection of the runway since it's not a major public airport with full time air traffic control.

Most people are smart enough not to park something in the middle of a runway but might not have an intuitive grasp of how large a wingspan these things have.

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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by bowsamic on Thursday December 08, 2022 @01:39AM (#33904928)
Most of the time they land the first time and you can tell they’re coming in too hot when it happens. It could also be when there are container ships crossing the Elbe that they’re scared they might hit
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by acapybara on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:01AM (#33894397)
Go around
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by bowsamic on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:39AM (#33894784)
What?
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by mananaysiempre on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @10:21AM (#33895349)
A "go around" is what they call an aborted landing attempt like the ones you describe.
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by bowsamic on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @10:28AM (#33895433)
Oh, why didn't he say that?
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Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory by andrewflnr on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:45AM (#33896600)
Some people like to just put their free word-associations into internet comments. Don't worry about it. :)
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