Sunday Video: Maximum brakes
When I saw the 787 land at the Farnborough Airshow, I was very impressed at how fast and cleanly it stopped. Even if it was relatively empty. So I found a few videos of aircraft making impressive stops around the world.
The 787 at Farnborough and courtesy of FlightGlobal.
South African Airways 747SP – notice how narrow the landing runway was.
747SP landing at Lexington, KY
Evergreen Airways Boeing 747 Tanker
Continental Airlines 737 in Cozumel

Mr. Farnborough blogger is really a Muppet, isn’t he?
-R
(isn’t he?)