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A fully loaded Russian IL-76 Cargo plane taking off.Make sure and follow the take off to the end and check the available runway left when it finally leaves the ground. Interesting conversation from the control tower.A fully loaded IL-76 cargo plane...payload 1 million pounds!Listen to the 'controllers' in the tower who are Australian. 'The Vodka Burner' as the Aussies call it, literally uses every inch of runway...WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO.. (shot from the tower)You can hear the conversation of the air traffic controllers. They are incredulous that the aircraft makes it CLICK HERE:    http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogalle ... tralia.wmv(Hope I've not broken forum rules by posting this, but thought it would be of interest / amuse some)

The old red's don't much care for safety and rules. Old tale from years ago about the aeroflot plane coming in to land somewhere and due to an argument over landing fees it was denied permission to land the pilot came straight on in landed parked the aircraft and buggered of never to be seen again.

raveydavey wrote: A fully loaded Russian IL-76 Cargo plane taking off.......................................(Hope I've not broken forum rules by posting this, but thought it would be of interest / amuse some) Wow ......... I am not sure if it breaks any rules but that had my heart in my mouth (these planes regularly fly into Prestwick where they are blessed with huge runways and I have to say are dashed impressive but are nothing compared to the days when B52s used turn up weekly!)Here is my contribution, opportunities for industrial exploration and photography that would get phill.d frothing at the mouth if in the West Riding rather than Western USA:http://www.brian894x4.com/AbandonedRRmainpage.html[The active and abondoned railroads of the Pacific northwest - a brilliant website by a guy called Brian McCamish dedicated to rooting around the active and abandoned railroads and mine sites in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington state]

raveydavey wrote: A fully loaded Russian IL-76 Cargo plane taking off.Make sure and follow the take off to the end and check the available runway left when it finally leaves the ground. Interesting conversation from the control tower.A fully loaded IL-76 cargo plane...payload 1 million pounds!Listen to the 'controllers' in the tower who are Australian. 'The Vodka Burner' as the Aussies call it, literally uses every inch of runway...WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO.. (shot from the tower)You can hear the conversation of the air traffic controllers. They are incredulous that the aircraft makes it CLICK HERE:    http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogalle ... tralia.wmv(Hope I've not broken forum rules by posting this, but thought it would be of interest / amuse some) Do you ever get these Russian behemoths coming into Leeds Bradford or is the runway too short?We occasionally get large Russian cargo jets at Manchester. Quite a few years back I watched and listened to ATC as an Antonov -124 ( then the world's largest cargo plane ) took off from Ringway. It was lined up with the runway and the pilot requested 6 minutes to prepare for takeoff. There was a landing aircraft on finals and it all got a bit tense as the russian just sat there and then declared a small problem which needed extra time. He started to roll after 6 min 15 sec and made a nimble takeoff using only half the runway length. The landing aircraft chose not to go around and touched down 1 minute after the Antonov started to roll. I always wondered why the Antonov needed 6 minutes after he was lined up for takeoff.

raveydavey wrote: A fully loaded Russian IL-76 Cargo plane taking off.Make sure and follow the take off to the end and check the available runway left when it finally leaves the ground. Interesting conversation from the control tower.A fully loaded IL-76 cargo plane...payload 1 million pounds!Listen to the 'controllers' in the tower who are Australian. 'The Vodka Burner' as the Aussies call it, literally uses every inch of runway...WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO.. (shot from the tower)You can hear the conversation of the air traffic controllers. They are incredulous that the aircraft makes it CLICK HERE:    http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogalle ... tralia.wmv(Hope I've not broken forum rules by posting this, but thought it would be of interest / amuse some) Reminds me that back in the early 80's I was on board a jumbo at Delhi returning to London and the har-krishna pilgrims boarded. Must have been a 100 of them and each one carried a marble statue as HAND LUGGAGE. This wasn't weighed at check-in in those days.Goodness knows how that was taken into consideration when the flight engineer calculated his fuel requirement. We took off with a similar heart stopping moment with the cabin crew looking at each other and blessing themselves. We made an unscheduled stop at Kuwait to re-fuel so we must have burnt excess to get off the ground. A flight I've related a few times. Glad when we arrived at Heathrow.