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I can just imagine the pilots faces when they found out they'd landed at the wrong airport.

Gerrof moi laaanding strip

this is not a one off. famous case at Northolt years ago when a 707 landed there instead of Heathrow. To b e fair though, he would likely to have less computers than a modern pilot!

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[url= http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/video/caught-on-camera-massive-military-plane-lands-at-wrong-airport/1749015695001 ]and this one. [/url]

Wonder if they could do this?

They do it with these as well.

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watch the take off attempt live at somepoint

Just fill it with helium balloons.

Live now on ksn.com

Pah! Superguppies do it with propellers!

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Now there's the Beluga Superguppy:

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Phew!

Again, again!

She's up, looked tight though.

and there it goes...

Well, they got it off the ground, then! I'll bet there were big sighs of relief all round. 😀

There was a pilot talking one one of the clips who seemed to say that the airstrip and the military airfield shared the identity number '22' painted in big numbers on the tarmac.

Please tell me I misheard/misunderstood this, it seems incredibly daft 😯

The C17 version was impressive both from a landing and takeoff point of view: http://www.flyingmag.com/pilots-places/pilots-adventures-more/video-c-17-accidentally-lands-small-ga-airport?src=related&src=related&con=outbrain&obref=obnetwork

Tell me the pilots have GPS, radar, ATC radar etc to help in such circumstances these days?

Have a look on Google maps, [url= http://goo.gl/maps/ptIlU ]http://goo.gl/maps/ptIlU[/url], there are three runways in a row in about a five mile zone, all aligned more or less north south, and he picked the smallest to put it down. If he was coming from JFK to the north, he just picked the first one in the line.

Old nick - the '22' designates the direction of the runway 220degrees or South-west.

Matt - yes to all. It's a 'never' event - should never happen.

Tell me the pilots have GPS, radar, ATC radar etc to help in such circumstances these days?

You'd think, wouldn't you?
Quite a few years ago, late one foggy night, I was up in my bedroom, mum was asleep and dad was doing a night shift, and I could hear the whistle of a jet approaching. Nothing unusual, there were aircraft flitting around at all hours of the day or night, so I thought nothing of it. Anyhow, it was getting louder, and all of a sudden there was an almighty roar, windows rattled, and my mum suddenly shouting, "what was that, what's going on?", in an absolute panic.
I had no idea, but I found out later it was an RAF Jaguar, on a night training mission, on final approach to RAF Lyneham.
Just a few yards away from me is Hungerdown Lane, once the A350 trunk route from the M4 to Poole, and very brightly lit at night. It runs due North/South, and Lyneham is about ten miles away to the North-East.
I think most have now realised what happened; the pilot saw the street-lights, thought they were the flare-path, and was on final approach, at around 100ft, when he suddenly realised his error and slammed the re-heats open!
I believe there was a stern talking-to involved...
I shudder to think what might have happened, a Jaguar coming down on an urban road with all the attendant street furniture.
Not long after, someone tried to put a C-130 Hercules down on the A4 at Cherhill, near Calne, which is also brightly lit at night, and closer to Lyneham, in fact you could see both lots of lights at night. That could have been a bit iffy, although with a Herc I reckon he could have done it, and taken off again.
The joys of living near busy military air bases... 😀

Wwas - career ender.

Watched the C-130 taking off in the arctic, which then brought this up. C-130 operations from an aircraft carrier 😯 The 747 lads had it easy!

Cheers tomkerton 🙂