Post by joscyriacv2 on Feb 27, 2018 10:12:11 GMT
Flying today Union Aeromaritime Transport flight 1322 from Johannesburg to Brazzaville. This is leg 1 of a flight which continues to Paris Le Bourget. Aircraft is Douglas DC-8-33 F-BJLB which later served with UTA after the merger and later sold to Air Afrique. This aircraft can be seen at Zurich airport used for firefighting training. The flight is from UAT 1963 schedule. In 1963, UAT merged with TAI to for UTA, the pure long haul French airline.
Seen here on the ramp at Johannesburg Jan Smuts airport. Scenery from Calclassic Africa 1960. Thank you Mark C for the info.
95 pax, 5800kg cargo and 50000kg fuel loaded. Ramp weight of 126,026 kgs.
On the takeoff run. Due to lack of any performance charts, ended up using almost the whole runway to get off.
Climbout
Some shots from cruise. Used skyvector to plot a route with airways defined by VORs. Couple of legs were 500nm+. Used 2NDBs for position fixing. There's this software Plan-G which is primarily intended for VFR flying but found it was very suitable for our need too.
Descending into some clouds.
Crossing the Congo river. On the southern bank lies the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Northern bank has Brazzavile, Republic of Congo. Two cities seperated by 14nm.
Ships at the port of Kinshasa
Touchdown. Consumed a total of 30,150 kgs of fuel. This plane guzzles gas literally. Great livery too. Also to be noted are the Noise suppression rings on the engines which are movable. They are extended for takeoff and retracted after.
Seen here on the ramp at Johannesburg Jan Smuts airport. Scenery from Calclassic Africa 1960. Thank you Mark C for the info.
95 pax, 5800kg cargo and 50000kg fuel loaded. Ramp weight of 126,026 kgs.
On the takeoff run. Due to lack of any performance charts, ended up using almost the whole runway to get off.
Climbout
Some shots from cruise. Used skyvector to plot a route with airways defined by VORs. Couple of legs were 500nm+. Used 2NDBs for position fixing. There's this software Plan-G which is primarily intended for VFR flying but found it was very suitable for our need too.
Descending into some clouds.
Crossing the Congo river. On the southern bank lies the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Northern bank has Brazzavile, Republic of Congo. Two cities seperated by 14nm.
Ships at the port of Kinshasa
Touchdown. Consumed a total of 30,150 kgs of fuel. This plane guzzles gas literally. Great livery too. Also to be noted are the Noise suppression rings on the engines which are movable. They are extended for takeoff and retracted after.
