KLM Fokker 100 PH-OFE...The Final Touchdown

[Garry Russell]

Hard to think of these things as up for retirement, but quite a few have gone now

This one has a new 'career'

http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=74707

[TobyV]

Looks like they disembarked the last pax and just plonked it on the roof! Looks in very good nick actually (not sure being lifted by sticking an RSJ through the DV windows will help though, doubt thats listed as a jacking point in the engineer's manuals but hey ho!). I was going to say it looks in better nick than the ones I fly home on occasionally. I came into Brum at Christmas in the heavy snow on an F-100. touchdown was smooth but there was a fire tender suspiciously close to the end of hte runway. We made two turns off the runway so that we were parallel before stopping when the captain announced he was no longer able to steer the plane and we would have to be towed.

When the tug showed up, the driver noted that the main gear doors had collapsed onto the tarmac and needed to be secured! When we reached the parking spot, I noticed that the flaps had never been retracted either. Sounded suspiciously like a hydraulics fault

What are KLM replacing them with? Embraers? No more new Fokkers, I believe the -50s have gone already, do they still have -70s?

[Garry Russell]

Hi Toby

I was looking at the beam through the cockpit and it doesn't seem to be touching the window as such

I think it might be a frame mounted to the floor with the beams acting as 'handles'.

They still have a large fleet of 70's but I guess they'll gradually fade away in favour of the standard RJs.

Another 100, I think it might have been 'FA was retired a little while ago to the main museum.

[ianhind]

do they still have -70s?

Oh yes. Every day sees lots of them out of Schipol and into Liverpool, Teeside, Hull, etc

When I started writing this PH-KZH is en route to "Darlington, Durham Tees Valley".

Subsequently did a "playback" of the virtual radar:
PH-KZL - LBA
PH-KZP - Darlington
PH-KZR -Aberdeen
PH-KZG - Newcastle
PH-KZD - Liverpool

and an F100 PH-OFM - Humberside

Ian

[tango234]

(not sure being lifted by sticking an RSJ through the DV windows will help though, doubt thats listed as a jacking point in the engineer's manuals but hey ho!).

The forum that is linked at the top of the page has a post that says that the cockpit was built that way so it could be used to recover the aircraft, so it could be in the recovery manual, whatever that is. Of coures, in real life I'm an aeronautical numbskull so what do I know? Not a lot.

[Garry Russell]

Used to be G-UKFE of AIr UK

[Garry Russell]

Just read today

KLM plans to have replaced all the Fokker 100 and 70 by 2015 with Embraers.

[basys]

Weight was lifted by main spar.

Beam through cockpit was only for balance control,
as confirmed by 2 tonne max marking,
and chainblock linking slings.

HTH
ATB
Paul

[TobyV]

Guess that makes sense actually, and defuelled and without pax or freight, the C of G is probably further to the rear than in take off configuration. it just looked very strange to see that, that's all!