Don't forget the speed that the 747 was probably departing at... After Sept. 11th, when a large number of mostly empty wide-bodies were departing YVR (pax were bussed to SEA in many cases) there was a parade of DC-10's, 777s, 767s where each pilot seemed to want to out- do each other. I do recall a NW DC-10 making an incredible high angle departure into the sunset. It was a beautiful sight. Matthew On 9-Aug-05, at 10:12 PM, David MR wrote: > I don't see anything unusual. With a lightly loaded aircraft and > the right > weather conditions, it would be easy for a 747 or other high powered > aircraft to take off at an angle like this. > > When an aircraft is being test flown for certification, one of the > tests is > for Vs (or is it Vmu?). Anyway, this test actually has the > aircraft taking > off at such a steep angle that it's not uncommon for the tail to > drag along > the runway. > > > David R > http://home.comcast.net/~damiross/books.html > www.sequoians.com > www.chanticleers.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of > Mark Greenwood > Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 19:51 > To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Powerful climb > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C59D1B.A48D03F0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Are we sure that's not a photoshop jobby? > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Manfred Saitz > Sent: August 9, 2005 5:05 AM > To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Powerful climb > > Hi, > > I want to draw you attention to this picture: > http://www.airliners.net/open.file/895363/L/ > > Is that for real? > It's hard to imagine, to attain such a steep climb angle shortly after > liftoff without scraping the runway with the tail. > > brgds, > Manfred > > ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C59D1B.A48D03F0 > Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; 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