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

Youtube long takeoff

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"

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

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

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 !

pilotgallagher01 wrote:

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

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 .

Ian Warren wrote:

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!

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