Sunday, November 15, 2009

Gulf Air Airbus A340 departing Wellington

Well, I missed the departure, but Silke [Thanks!] has kindly given me a video of the event, so here it is.

5 comments:

Hindsfeet said...

so that was biggie taking off there, huh?

Hey! I've got something for you too! A link my uncle (with the FAA) sent me...

http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/MuseumOfFlight/MuseumOfFlight.html

Rodney said...

That was a nice page, thanks Hindsfeet.

Off-Black said...

I got a nice still sequence of the departure from the hill above the ATC building, on my blog here if you are interested: http://offblack.blogspot.com/2009/11/things-i-do.html

Cheers, SH

Flyinkiwi said...

That was one long takeoff roll. I bet the crew were sweating bullets!

Rodney said...

Hi Euan,

Actually, looks like plenty of runway. If you look closely [and perhaps it helps I have seen a couple of other phoos :-)], the nose gear is off around W2 and he appears to get airborne around W1 [take a look at the Wellington AD chart].

Basically, this lightly loaded A340 took off in a little more than a "normal" B737. Ignore the comments on the sound, they were not aviation people :-)

Having said all that, it is a bit hard to see on the video, an the angle definately does not help :-)

Cheers,

Rodney