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Is This Normal???

10.0k iiRazor  8.6 years ago

Okay, so, I live in Southern California. San Diego to be exact. And in the way to school, I saw a large, four engined airliner. I took a more examined look, and it turbs out its a 747! I live about 100 miles south of Los Angeles, the nearest airport that can harbor the 747... Any ideas?

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    Im sure i saw an F-35 training in Newcastle Australia

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    10.0k iiRazor

    @WhiteWing welp, British Airways is now flying 747s into my city... That explains the paint scheme and my first 747 sighting...

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    7,655 WhiteWing

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    According to this video and some comments, there is now a scheduled service to San Diego,but when the video was posted it was a rare site. So that may be why your confused, 747's haven't been there for a very long time. But the video shows a 747 can land in San Diego

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    10.0k iiRazor

    @Thefalloutplayr I don't know if you have noticed, but NONE of the major airports around have services capable of a 747... Even if we did it would be one hell of a pilot to land and KSAN. The runway is about 9700 ft. But it's pretty narrow. And all the 737s there.

    Edit: I now know KSAN can harbor a 747! XD

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    And San Diego HAS AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT! How old are you? To not know that your city has one of the US's most major airports?! Don't make a pointless post about this it literally took me 5 mins to come up with information take this down for the love of god! Take this down

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    And a 747 only needs 6900 feet. The average runway is 6000feet long so it wouldn't be TOO much of a stretch to say it was going for repairs at a local airport

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    It's not that big of a deal you may not know this but San Diego is a MAJOR private airline port.hell it could have been going to go for repairs.and how exactly did you "identify" this UA

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    @Dankplanes that's what I heard in West Civ!

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    @AeroEngineering today saw a 747 flying over head at lunch

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    I see some aircraft you would never expect on a near weekly basis at school. They include:
    C-130
    F-15
    Black hawk helicopter
    USCG dolphin helicopter
    2 acrobatic planes
    More C-130's (there everywhere!)
    Tons of private and commercial gets (near an airport)
    Numerous private helicopters
    The occasional F-18
    Once an F-22

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    49.1k Flightsonic

    New word of the day: turbs!
    But that's probably normal

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    10.0k iiRazor

    @Frant24 this is the first time I've seen it. It never is in this area

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    Sounds normal.

    8.6 years ago