haydensydney
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As a born and bred Wellingtonian, I love seeing vid's of heavy bodies using WLG as the visits are extremely rare. When I was a kid, I use to take the bus to the airport from Upper Hutt and sit at the airport watching arriving and departing flights all day (I was a special child, lol). It used to be awesome being able to sit at the end of the runway on the rocks and have the aircraft come close overhead - unfortunately you can no longer do this <sad face>. Back then, in the '90s, NZ and QF still operated 767's from the airport and these were spectacular to have land basically directly on top of you...
Anyway, I found the below video whilst grazing Youtube. The takeoff of the NZ 777 looks very very steep, and it's amazing to see how quickly it gets up. Would love to be in the coughpit on this one!
[video=youtube_share;hBUErLBXphs]http://youtu.be/hBUErLBXphs[/video]
And here is a different angle of the same take-off:
[video=youtube_share;yTJgjs7zG4I]http://youtu.be/yTJgjs7zG4I[/video]
Whilst i'm at it, here is a vid of a Gulf Air A340 landing at WLG which is also quite spectacular [wind noise is horrible so turn down volume]
[video=youtube_share;pWipzOQDYKY]http://youtu.be/pWipzOQDYKY[/video]
Anyway, I found the below video whilst grazing Youtube. The takeoff of the NZ 777 looks very very steep, and it's amazing to see how quickly it gets up. Would love to be in the coughpit on this one!
[video=youtube_share;hBUErLBXphs]http://youtu.be/hBUErLBXphs[/video]
And here is a different angle of the same take-off:
[video=youtube_share;yTJgjs7zG4I]http://youtu.be/yTJgjs7zG4I[/video]
Whilst i'm at it, here is a vid of a Gulf Air A340 landing at WLG which is also quite spectacular [wind noise is horrible so turn down volume]
[video=youtube_share;pWipzOQDYKY]http://youtu.be/pWipzOQDYKY[/video]
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