FedEx 727-200 Short Field Landing, with audio! Its last flight.

Congrats to you and the rest of the flight crew who brought this future training tool to
Alaskans. We appreciate you and FedEx for their generous donation. Awesome.

Great landing!!! I'm glad to see this 727 has found a good home for retirement. I can't believe almost all the 727’s flying in the US retired. I guess I'm getting old!!!

Textbook!

tpowell76 Tim...was that short field landing a record for the 727? What was the touch down speed? Were you able to practice the procedure elsewhere?

When they donate the planes, the pilots take great pride in showing what that airplane can do.. those pilots do a good job each and every time

Or 3, can't remember.

LOL

Yes, and too bad that idiot Daly had the balls to destroy the runway late at night using Dept. of Streets equipment to do it. Imagine, a Federal property with a tower, & of course, as head of the Chicago Democratic machine (same machine that put another idiot into national politics) got away with it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV4tgjSPgks

I am with you on all counts Jeanette. The sounds of the engines thrill me to no end. I was that way before my son ever started flying for FedEx.

I just miss 27's period!

Here is a video of the event with views of the packed carpark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyqAAvtSp-A

Thanks Dave,

We both enjoyed it. Great people up there !

lololololol

I keep seeing that expression - what's a "3 holer" ?

Correction.... There is NO flying like ALASKA flying. (sorry for the error)

WAL/DAL Western / Delta F/O AAL ( American )

they have two

Thanks John,

In my career I flew for Alsaka Airlines and Western / Delta Airlines in Alaska for many years. it was a great pleasure for me to return to Alaska and do this delivery.

nope

More than likely, LOL

Yes it is sad and unfortunate that the original Parks and it's campus are no more. Now part of Aviation history. I was a student there in 1964 ( graduated in 1968 ). I learned to fly at Parks Airport, and have been lucky enough to be able to fly Boeing Jets for the past 43 years. By the way - I believe it was a DC-7 ( as students, we would sneak into it and imagine ourselves as airline pilots ). Tim Powell ( PIC of the 727 )

Did you get a lot of snow and ice on that there 4000' runway in St. Thomas?

The Big deal is that it was the final flight of this airplane as it is being donated to the local A&P school based at the airport. It's not every day a school gets a working 727 so a lot of people showed up to watch.

Wow! You must be the absolute best there is. We're so lucky you post on FA. (Emphasis on sarcasm, just in case.)

Didn't a TWA 3 holer hit the mountain on takeoff when unable to clear it? I was there about 2 weeks before the hit, and could see why that takeoff run rather than toward the sea would be tough when hot and no wind

As did American Airlines until April 27, 1976 when flight 625 ran off the end of the runway, through a chain link fence, across the road, and into a gas station where the airplane was destroyed and about half the occupants died. That was the last of the 727's there.

I landed on that runway in a C150 about a week before the accident and touched down just prior to a 727 landing. It was a striking experience watching and hearing what it took to stop that plane in 4000 ft. Seeing it done in 2500 ft (albeit probably at a much lower weight) must have been an experience.

Why do the 'kids' always assume they invented everything. Not that it wasn't a nice landing...but come on....psst don't tell anyone, but its all been done before...and much if it repeated routinely!! As several of these posts imply. Only diff is no phone video's to record it!!!!.