Monday, March 29, 2010

Gulf Air Airbus A340-300 in Egypt

I was looking in my downloads folder and I realized that I had downloaded an Airbus A340 last week and I forgot to install it.  So installed it and flew around Egypt.  I took off from Cairo and landed in Alexandria airport...even though the 7221 ft runway really isn't acceptable for such a large aircraft to land there...and Gulf Air doesn't even go to that airport. But I made a smooth landing and stopped about 1000 ft. short of the runway with minimal braking...because I touched down like at the very tip of the usable area.

All technicalities aside, enjoy the pictures.

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