Boeing 737

Training cockpit at Luton

Been in this! Slowly working towards that www.income-tax.co.uk/£50,000 a a year after tax job flying

you tube film of one of the last remaining passenger Boeing 737-200s still in operation. landing on gravel at Dawson City.YDA

The plane is equipped for gravel runways, which means it’s the only Air North jet that can fly to Dawson, Yukon. Air North’s 737-500s are not gravel equipped. If anyone would like to expand on what gravel equipped is please do! I suspect some of it has to do with the reverse thrusters

kebecker wrote:

you tube film of one of the last remaining passenger Boeing 737-200s still in operation. landing on gravel at Dawson City.YDA

The plane is equipped for gravel runways, which means it’s the only Air North jet that can fly to Dawson, Yukon. Air North’s 737-500s are not gravel equipped. If anyone would like to expand on what gravel equipped is please do! I suspect some of it has to do with the reverse thrusters

If you freeze the video at 0:56 you will see an attachment to the nose-wheel. This prevents gravel being thrown upwards and sucked into the valuable,modern, state-of-the-art P&W JT3D's.

All modifications and operating restrictons listed here.

www.b737.org.uk/unpavedstripkit.htm

Nice shot of nosewheel plate and vortex dissipation here.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_North#/media/F...ing_in_Vancouver.jpg

Wiki tells it good:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel_kit

Decades ago when working in the Middle East the national carriers 737 had to trample surface hook-wires for the military arrester gear which damaged the Nose Landing Gear fairings. Eventually the aircraft were retrofitted with a part 'gravel kit' consisting of a 'ski' deflector on the NLG which fixed the aircraft problem but frequently damaged the cable!

At Gutersloh we got Britannia airways troopers in 3 time a week, I dont recall them having any problems with the cables.

As this is a topic on the 737, here is a photo I took of the one at Cranfield in December 2018

Will this thread include the P8 and the RAAF Wedgetail AEW 737?

canberra wrote:

Will this thread include the P8 and the RAAF Wedgetail AEW 737?

A selection of 737, P-8, C-40, Wedgtail etc for you

Boeing P-8A Poseidon (167955) - 5 July 2014 at Waddington, Lincolnshire


Boeing 737-7BX (G-STRC) - 23 August 2004 at Funchal, Madeira, Portugal


Boeing 737-8AS (EI-DAZ) - 9 June 2010 at Laarbruch / Weeze, Germany


Boeing 737-201/Adv (C5-OUK) - 21 December 2004 at Freetown, Sierra Leone


Boeing 737-852 (XA-AMJ) - 8 May 2015 at Los Angeles, California


Boeing C-40A Clipper (166695) - 24 May 2012 at Mildenhall, Suffolk


Boeing 737-490 (N791AS) - 8 May 2015 at Los Angeles, California


Boeing 737-9FG (HZ-ATR) - 6 January 2018 at Luton, Bedfordshire


Boeing 737-9K2 (PH-BXS) - 16 December 2018 at Norwich, Norfolk


Boeing 737-7ES Wedgetail (A30-001) - 14 July 2018 at Fairford, Gloucestershire

thirty years since the tragic loss of a 737-400, at Kegworth.