"ShawnD2112" wrote in message

....This after standing on the 8th floor of the car park watching
them come in to land one after the other. An amazing site

I recall one day about 12 or 13 years ago being about #5 for takeoff at EWR
on a truly smutchy day. JFK was down, and both Concordes had diverted to
Newark. We were near min, and our position in line was just about at the
touchdown point. A truly impressive sight to see this plane [actually both,
not quite in sequence] emerge at minimums, vortices wrapping, looking for
all the world like some kind of prehistoric raptor.....

I also recall that the FE had tuned a radio to approach, and we heard at one
point EWR ask BA to slow to 180. He politely replied that he needed to
maintain at least 220 on the approach for fuel economy. Now, that was
impressive!

Regards,

John Gaquin
B727, B747