Some dramatic video clips of crosswind landings at LBA in recent gales as reported in the national papers.
http://tinyurl.com/qzp9ju7
I never realised that LBA, or Yeadon Aerodrome as I still call it, has the highest airport runway in the Uk until I read it in the Telegraph this week.
Crosswind landings at Leeds Bradford Airport
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Crosswind landings at Leeds Bradford Airport
It used to be said that the statue of the Black Prince had been placed in City Square , near the station, pointing South to tell all the southerners who've just got off the train to b****r off back down south!
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Re: Crosswind landings at Leeds Bradford Airport
i have had two bad landings at LBA on one the pilot apologised for a very hard landing on the other the plane fishtaled down the runway in heavy rain.and i have only flown from there about six times.
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My Brother was in the R.A.F. at Yeadon in 1953 and I remember him saying about all the near misses with aircraft both service and commercial planes. apparently sometimes, owing to the wind direction. some went over Leeds at very low heights
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The predominant landing direction still takes them over central Leeds at low heights. When on the Leeds Beckett Headingley Campus they are so low it feels like I can reach up an touch them.j.c.d. wrote:My Brother was in the R.A.F. at Yeadon in 1953 and I remember him saying about all the near misses with aircraft both service and commercial planes. apparently sometimes, owing to the wind direction. some went over Leeds at very low heights
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tyke bhoy wrote:The predominant landing direction still takes them over central Leeds at low heights. When on the Leeds Beckett Headingley Campus they are so low it feels like I can reach up an touch them.j.c.d. wrote:My Brother was in the R.A.F. at Yeadon in 1953 and I remember him saying about all the near misses with aircraft both service and commercial planes. apparently sometimes, owing to the wind direction. some went over Leeds at very low heights
Yes, the odd time I have landed at Yeadon (not diverted to Manchester) I noticed a great view of the City. it seems back in the old days some of the aircraft took off also over Leeds which the pilot had to put the aircraft to its limit just getting up . quite scary for all concerned I would imagine. when I lived in Leeds we tended to go from Doncaster or East Midlands working on the assumption we would take off and land on time safely.
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Re: Crosswind landings at Leeds Bradford Airport
I spent quite a few years travelling back and forth from LBA to Belfast [Harbour - now George Best, hic] on the Shorts "Sky Caravans" and landings in these things at either end could be a real white-knuckle affair. At least at Leeds you were only ever going to end up on the grass if it went wrong.
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Re: Crosswind landings at Leeds Bradford Airport
This Air France Concorde video is quite old now, but despite the poor quality it’s still worth watching to see why the Air France pilots refused to fly another Concorde into Yeadon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79LE4ty_gkM
The Yeadon crosswinds didn't put off the British Airways pilots who continued to fly the Concorde into LBA until just 1 month before the Air France Concorde crashed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79LE4ty_gkM
The Yeadon crosswinds didn't put off the British Airways pilots who continued to fly the Concorde into LBA until just 1 month before the Air France Concorde crashed.