The Belly of the Beast

Well its back! Joburg Maputo as never seen before or likely to be seen again. Spectacular footage over the bay in the reflected afternoon sun, even if I say so myself. Marvel at the incredible engineering that goes into aircraft landing gear. To answer the questions of how it was done follow this link-    • Making of Belly of the Beast:  B747 nose g...   Background Info: I was a training Captain with this company and also one of the aircraft Air -Test pilots so I had a fair amount of experience of actually operating the various alternate systems of the Classic and I suppose explains how I was able to convince the rest of the crew to go along with my plan. I had let my enthusiasm get the better of me and despite having tried to mitigate against all the "what ifs" we could think of, had really gone outside the box and consequently I was on the red carpet in front of the DFO pleading idiocy (temporary insanity) and trying to save my job. I immediately removed the video from Youtube, ( unfortunately quite a few others had already re-uploaded it) but decided to repost it about a year later after the company had succumbed to the world financial crisis, and further embarrassment could be avoided.