"Benbo" wrote in message
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"Ron Webb" wrote in message
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Are these guys good or what???


http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...+landing+video



Boeing 777 and 747SP Crosswind Landing Tests
Video shows Boeing test pilots determining the demonstratedcrosswind
landing
limits on the 777 and the 747SP. The engineers make educated guesses, but
then the test crews have to go actually prove the numbers. They sneak off
to
Brazil to do these tests at a certain remote BAF airbase famous for its
continual atrocious crosswinds.

PBS did a series on the development of the 777, at one point they showed the
test pilots sitting around waiting for word of the right combination for max
crosswinds; when word came in, they saddled up and headed there (don't
remember where it was but it was stateside).