Today I came across of some amazing photo at Flickr. It’s showing an EVA Air Boeing 747-45EM taking off from runway 36L at Amsterdam - Schiphol (AMS / EHAM) (Netherlands). The great timing and angle just makes this shot, and the size of the 747, looking quite surreal. Just amazing if you ask me!
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Wow! Incredible photo. I’m planning to go spotting planes at Amsterdam Airport, as I live very close to the airport. It’s a five minute drive to the spot that photo was made.
I really should go there soon!
Yeah, you should really go! Just don’t forget to share your photos!
This can’t be for real!!
The size of the people and the size of the 747 just don’t match.
Believe me, it is real! It’s a matter of perspective.
The image may not be real. The guy on the left side of the screen - by the right wing - looks to relax for such an event..
Realy need to see the next shot, the thrust from the engins would say it all.
It´s real, photo taken with a _big_ telelens, compresses the 3-dimensional space.
if it was real, those folks standing on the parking lot watching would all be deaf. They are not even trying to cover their ears!
The long lens foreshortans the image.Note the perspective of the road.
The runway is 475′ from this viewing point. Many airports have run-way
veiwing locations closer than that….Remember the F 15’s picture at the
Detroit River Airshow, that looked like it was right next to the
guy standing on his balcony? Same thing!
It is not is all it seems as the photo was taken from an old closed road half way down the r/w. Have a look at http://www.avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=55673
Whilst the picture is impressive and not quite as dangerous as it first appears, can someone explain what seem to be wrinkles in the fuselage skin under and around the EvaAir logo. I know aircraft flex, but that looks like a vinyl banner in the wind.
Looks like a staged EVA publicity stunt. Long lens = forshortened perspective with advertising banner stuck all over aircraft wrinkling in the breeze. Impressive photo though. Aircraft is nowhere near end of runway.
Must have been a bad day………………………..
Runway is 3800 m long
At max weight of circa 400tons would need 3000m of runway and vr of 170kts
Assume he lost an engine after v1 and was taking off with a tail wind
3rd world pilots ……….. keep well clear !!
Great photo! It looks like a 600mm?
I’d say the photo is real, and although the aircraft is taking off from 36, not that the photo is taken from the threshold as some think. The cover on the name is not unusual.
The 747-400 would hardly be affected by a engine failure after V1 in regard to performance capability, as most takeoffs are temperature derated and October would be nice and cold. Their takeoff requirements are such that the aircraft manufacturers have to prove that it will be able to climb with sufficient clearance with engine failure of the critical engine at V1. If your Vr figures are correct, (I think at MAUW it is around 155 from memory) and the rotate is at 3000m as you say then they will climb at greater than 0.5% with one engine failure until their gear is retracted and at greater than 3% until they reach 400ft or obstacle clearance speed. Being Schiphol I doubt whether there would be any serious obstacles to clear. These obstacle clearance figures also allow 1% degradation for wear and tear in the engine (Ie if it was an old engine). All engine failures must be reported, and there is no such report so we can assume it is a normal 4 engine takeoff.
People would have no reason not to be relaxed and they are still a good distance from the runway. The 400 is quiet as most noise is compressor noise, not exhaust as in the older ones.
3rd world pilot comment; sigh; it is not nationality based, it is the flying culture of safety that determines whether you should keep clear of them, not where they live or their ethnicity!! I know some great third world professional pilots and I know some shocking first world professional pilots that I would not send my family in the air with!
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Aug 16th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
3rd world pilots ……….. keep well clear !!
Describes the writer 100%