Going overland...

[IslandBoy77]

You can almost see all the passengers sucking their stomachs in to make the aircraft lighter...

Youtube long takeoff

[deeknow]

Yowza!!! ... pax prolly knew nothing about it, woulda been a bit of puckering in the cockpit tho

Some classic comments under that one, more witty than vulgar for a change, e.g....
"why waste the rest of the runway use it all up"
"he just ex-taxi driver,mor milege on the ground-mor money"

[Splitpin]

Yep....thats gotta be a 10 on the pucker meter

[pilotgallagher01]

Holy darnation!
He must have been taking off with a bloody strong tailwind or alot of fat people on board?

[Ian Warren]

Strange , they get this , the better off all airliners in Asia , was this another flight deck argument , ? .. it seems to happen to often in this region , .. Maybe i should get a Job over there as a high rated captain , i do wonder how many are really ex-Chinese bus drivers !

[IslandBoy77]

QUOTE (pilotgallagher01 @ Sep 28 2010, 11:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Holy darnation!

What naughty word did you use today then, batman?

I love the little puff of dust to the right as he (?) finally decides to lift off. Presumably, that means the tyres actually hit pay-dirt!

Perhaps the pilot was thinking of the future:

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2010/...-demon-uav.html

[Ian Warren]

Wonder what the dimensions on that this was looked flayed around in the air like a model a most off them have such a hi-power to weight you would,t need flaps .

[IslandBoy77]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Sep 29 2010, 04:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Wonder what the dimensions on that this was looked flayed around in the air like a model a most off them have such a hi-power to weight you would,t need flaps .

Yes, I think that the results they're getting will be hard to duplicate on "real" aircraft. At a guess, the UAV looks to be maybe 5 or 6 feet long? And as you say, they have such massive power to weight ratio that getting airborne is inevitable!

[ardypilot]

Remind me not to go flying in China. Hope they weren't cutting corners on their weight and balance and performance calculations!