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Postby Shadowcaster » Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:08 pm

Word fail me on this :shock: :shock:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33115944

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Re: Dreamliner

Postby Anthindelahunt » Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:39 pm

Amazing.I never thought I would see an airliner
perform a take off like that.

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Re: Dreamliner

Postby expat » Fri Jun 12, 2015 9:06 pm

If you want to see a very impressive airliner display, then South African Airways 747 Springbok One is a show stopper. I saw her once many years ago at a Duxford summer display. You would not think that the 747 was so manoeuvrable. Due to Stansted being just down the road (20 mile or so), she had to do her display under 1000 feet and stay within the airfield perimeter. The 747 can turn in a six pence when she has to....... :shock: :shock:

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Re: Dreamliner

Postby Hawkeye07 » Fri Jun 12, 2015 9:52 pm

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=south+african+airways+747+springbok+one&FORM=VIRE5#view=detail&mid=BF3B3A9591032B22F838BF3B3A9591032B22F838

Here's a short clip of it I found.
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Re: Dreamliner

Postby Anthindelahunt » Fri Jun 12, 2015 11:47 pm

Thanks for finding that Hawkeye.Really enjoyed
watching the old girl.Poetry in motion.In my eyes
she will always be Queen of the skies.Always felt
really save on the 747.

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Re: Dreamliner

Postby Hawkeye07 » Sat Jun 13, 2015 2:00 am

I worked on the B747-400's (and a few -200's) in the Northwest Airlines heavy check hangars at KMSP about 12 years ago. Believe me they are built like a tank. It still amazes me how they ever get airborne.
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Re: Dreamliner

Postby pete » Sat Jun 13, 2015 2:23 am

Slightly deceptive video as it's taken from above and at an angle. Would like to see the takeoff from the side.
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Re: Dreamliner

Postby Jean Loup » Sat Jun 13, 2015 2:04 pm

pete wrote:Slightly deceptive video as it's taken from above and at an angle. Would like to see the takeoff from the side.

:clap: In this 2014 video we have a view from ground level, and an amazing Touch & Go at 4:23 :whistle: At 6:46 I see a bird flying over the foreground: I wonder if falcons are used here, to control birds that could endanger passenger aircraft :think: like we do at México City International.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzr313wSY_Y[/youtube]
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Re: Dreamliner

Postby OldAirmail » Sat Jun 13, 2015 4:37 pm

Thanks, Jean.

The question now is: Do they provide really good passenger seatbelts? :D

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Re: Dreamliner

Postby C » Sat Jun 13, 2015 5:43 pm

Over excited journalists... As Pete says a trick of the Boeing PR departments lenses; there after a competent PR team and a press who don't have aviation correspondents anymore...

Hardly vertical, probably not even anywhere near half vertical!

(and totally irrelevant for an airliner!)
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Re: Dreamliner

Postby Anthindelahunt » Sat Jun 13, 2015 7:06 pm

Don't forget the Valium and Anti heart attack pills.
Eat your heart out scarebus.

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Re: Dreamliner

Postby logjam » Sat Jun 13, 2015 9:15 pm

I'd like to know how they took pictures above the Dreamliner as it made it's rotation take-off. In all my service watching rotation take-offs by E.E. Lightnings, I never saw pics taken from the front and a few hundred feet ahead. Hmmm seems like a photo shop to me. <<q
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Re: Dreamliner

Postby OldAirmail » Sat Jun 13, 2015 9:31 pm

Don't you guys even believe it when you see it with your very own eyes? :o

They used the same camera that's in this Real Life© movie.

Pay attention at the 7 - 8 second mark. That's made with the special camera.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6K4rTDDRzo[/youtube]
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Re: Dreamliner

Postby Anthindelahunt » Sun Jun 14, 2015 1:14 am

You hit the nail on the head OAM.Cameras do incredible things
these days.Thanks for showing that clip.

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