The vodka burner is rolling.
Holy crap! Talk about using all of the runway. The dude should have spooled up before rolling. Thanks to CharlieB.
Posted by denny at March 11, 2008 02:44 PMWow...every inch of it! I expected to see some dust fly up.
Posted by: Mushy on March 11, 2008 03:19 PMplease keep the booze coming.
Posted by: Mike on March 11, 2008 04:36 PMNyet! Nyet! Ivan, you gone blond?
Pull the column pull it!
Pete
Posted by: Pete on March 11, 2008 05:06 PMYou've no idea how ill and panicky these videos make me feel...I saw one on a show a few weeks ago, about the ten greatest escapes from death, of this gigantic jet plunging into the ocean and exploding...that there were survivors is amazing, because the impact was incredibly powerful.
Posted by: Erica on March 11, 2008 08:08 PMObviously a Naval Aviator moved onto the airlines:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5prz1Ae5QM
Posted by: Jon on March 11, 2008 08:14 PMDenny, when you say "spooled up", are you referring to the pilot possibly throttling up the engines with the brake engaged momentarily? I don't know much about aviation, and that is all I can think of.
Posted by: Paul on March 11, 2008 10:53 PMJon - The dude didn't come out of his crab soon enough.
Paul - Yep! He needed to throttle up (spool up) the engines with the brakes on.
Posted by: Denny on March 11, 2008 11:24 PMPaul-
I was wondering about that too.
"We have Smirnoff" was pretty funny. Those Aussies are a jovial bunch...
Posted by: CharlieDelta on March 12, 2008 01:57 AMIf I was on that plane my butt would have puckered the vinyl for sure.
Posted by: hammer on March 12, 2008 02:30 AMLooks as if they didn't make altitude until Just short of Moscow!!!!!!!
Posted by: ty guy on March 12, 2008 04:51 AMBMW has a plant in Greenville, SC. I've seen them fly a honking big Antonov out of the airport there once. It took just about every inch of the 8000' runway, altho it wasn't QUITE as close as this clip.
Reminds me of a takeoff in 1989 at March AFB, flying a KC-135A, hot day, fully loaded. We did a static takeoff (spooled up, as you say) and still had a 70 second takeoff roll. Used every foot of the 13,800 we had available. Thought the boom operator was going to pass out. Found out later that they'd started rolling the crash trucks when we had 1500' remaining and hadn't rotated yet.
Ahh...memories.
It is a cool looking jet, though... for a transport...
Posted by: Steve on March 12, 2008 08:35 PMHe didn't take off, he just ran out of runway and yanked the yoke back at the same time.
Luck counts!
Posted by: Poker Player on March 12, 2008 11:15 PMAccording to the cameraman who shot the original video, the pilot did spool:
[...]this guy DID have his flaps deployed (see the video) and he DID have his engines at full power (hear the audio) before releasing his BRAKES.Posted by: Herr Blücher on March 13, 2008 02:10 PM
Man, every single take off out of Bogota, Colombia
are just like that with the diesel eight.
However, the runway elevation is 8,356 feet...
No way that Antonov get out of there with ANY load,
we took 100,000 pounds of flowers every days.
And we had to climb in a circle twice to clear the mountains. An Ilushin that tried to go straight of course crashed in the hills...
They found thirty more cadavers than there was passengers in the plane...Looters climbed in the rain, then snow then, wet as be hell, died
frozen, of exposure, next to their dead victims!!!
Reminds me of the old joke, the passengers are on the plane and the pilot and co-pilot come in wearing dark glasses. One has a cane and the other a seeing eye dog. They go into the cockpit and everyone feels a little nervous.
The plane heads down the runway faster and faster but doesn't pull up. The passengers panic and start to scream just before the end of the runway.
Suddenly the plane leaps into the air and away they go. everyone laughs at the joke the pilots pulled on them.
In the cockpit the co-pilot says, "You know Jim, One day they're gonna scream too late and we're all gonna die."