Qantas’s first Boeing 747-400 has landed at Illawarra Airport, Australia

[Qantas’s first Boeing 747-400 has landed at Illawarra Airport, Australia]

Illawara is also the airport for Wollongong, right?

 

 

I think so, it is only 20km from Wollongong albeit it only serves for light aircrafts, no scheduled commercial flights

 

 

 

[Qantas’s first Boeing 747-400 has landed at Illawarra Airport, Australia]

Wonder how they dealt with the fuel leftover from the flight (assuming there was leftovers) ?

 

The aircraft will be de-fuelled

 

 

 

VH-OJA went all the way to the end of runway

 

 

 

Wait for the wheel brake to cool down before towed to HARS

 

I believe the fire truck was sent down from SYD airport for the landing of VH-OJA this morning

[Qantas’s first Boeing 747-400 has landed at Illawarra Airport, Australia]

25 tonnes of fuel for a 17 minute hop ?!

I'm guessing it's the effort required to get the bird off the ground that guzzles juice most rapidly

 

There is a provision for go around until 10am and return to SYD if the weather is not favaourable. There is low threshold for cross wind and tail wind due to the challenging runway for a B744

 

 

The very last landing of VH-OJA..... a smooth landing. Bravo to the pilots

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Qantas’s first Boeing 747-400 has landed at Illawarra Airport, Australia]

With less than 10 mins to STA, the spectators were waiting patiently

 

 

[Qantas’s first Boeing 747-400 has landed at Illawarra Airport, Australia]

The relatively short and narrow runway at Illawara Airport WOL makes the landing of VH-OJA a very challenging task.

VH-OJA carried approx 25 tonne of fuel for this mission

 

 

Here are some interesting reads regadring the prep works

 

 

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/03/05/16/59/no-room-for-error-as-qantas-prepares-for-one-of-the-toughest-scheduled-landings-in-its-history

 

http://hars.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/QF7474-arrival-FAQ.pdf

 

 

 

While waiting for the arrival of VH-OJA City of Canberra

Outside airport fence @ Illawara Regional Airport (WOL)

 

 

 

 

 

Outside HARS (Historical Aircraft Restoration Society) Museum hangar, where the final resting place for VH-OJA

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Excellent shots ! Thanks for sharing.

 

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