Yeah ... that was a pretty bad take off !!!

Thats a good way to shear the wings right off the fuselage on a plane that big, not designed to do that.

A few summers ago when there were some serious wildfires in CommeFornia, a jet cargo plane retrofitted to drop fire retardant did his usual "bombing" style drop, and as he pulled up the wings sheared off and they crashed and died. They figured it was due to the multiple swooping passes these planes make while dropping the fire retardant. They simply weren't made to handle that type of motion over and over.

Is that real? Taking off like that would tear the wings off, no?

Just watching that made my tummy flip

[PILOT RANT] This was a textbook "Short Field Take-off." The moment you get airborne, you fly straight and level to gain airspeed, about 100-150ft. Once you're at a safe airspeed you can pull up and away. Though, his angle of attack after pulling away was a bit much, but you can't really see what's beyond the runway, it may have been necessary. [/PILOT RANT]

Greldon's right. Actually, planes are built to have their wings stretched 25 degrees off from their normal angle and a pull like that wouldn't be enough to sheer off the wings. Maybe if he tried that manuver at cruise altitute, you might have different consequences.

In the past few days I've come to realise something.

I call it the Azzho Hypothesis: If you're a pilot, and someone is filming you take off...Odds are, you're gonna fuck something up.

I don't know about the wings but any passanger would shyte themselves....

Couldn't have been much of a "Jumbo Jet" if it was only as big if not smaller than the Cessna's it passed on the runway.

wow looks cool but i would have shittem my paints

OMG that was shocking, my stomach was in knots just watching that

I hate flying. Watching that has not given me extra confidence at all. My mates call me Marge ( as in Marge Simpson)



I am getting a beer

that would be fun

I didn't think he was gonna make it, close call...

definately would want to go "have a chat" with the pilot

Take a look at the jet as it passes. NO FLAPS.
Looks like the aircrew made a huge mistake.
The extended the flaps just before you see the aircraft climb. There would be no reason to lift like that on a short airfield take off unless there was an obstruction if front of them. (like a mountain).



(This comment was modified on Feb 01, 2006 10:17 PM)