Shipbucket

Tomorrow morning, hopefully at 7.47 am the City of Canberra will make a 10 minute flight from Kingsford Smith to the Illawarra regional airport to join the HARS collection of historic aircraft. The pilots have trained specifically to land the C of C on the short north south strip.
C of C still holds the record for the longest non-stop un-refuelled flight by an airliner (London -Sydney 8-89) and has been donated by Qantas to HARS.
I've a great hill top view to watch the landing and the weather is looking good.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-new ... 314lo.html
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/201 ... 192427.htm

We changed our minds and drove down to the north end of the airfield. Parked and joined the crowd. I did some estimates and picked a spot, so in the video we are standing directly underneath the C of C as she lands. Ah the smell of kerosene in the morning!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-08/q ... ng/6288748

Impressive museum exhibit.
And a testimony to crew's training that managed to land this bird on such small airstrip.
(But hey... it was possible to deliberately land Il-62 on a 900m long grass field, then why not 747 on a real airstrip? )