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Was this at some sort of airshow?
Or was the pilot trying to make any other crotchbomber pee in his pants! (thus defusing the bomb)
How long did it take the pilots to get the leaves out of their teeth after the takeoff, not to mention changing their shorts afterward?
noise abatement?
I’d guess noise abatement as well, probably a high priced development or wildlife refuge down the extended center line.
Obviously a very large remote controlled model airliner.
Impressive. No passenger weight enables thst sort of steep takeoff. I saw this on a C5 transport but never on a commercial jetliner.
Nice flying! Would have been a pretty wild ride there.
Kinda looked like a small airfield, maybe he needed to as he didnt have enough room?
Whoa, that is an excellent way to have the FAA or EASA to yank the certification of your expensive airliner.
No flap take-off, pull up the gear, and yank. Note that the main gear doors hand not even closed when the guy pulled what looks like a 3-4G maneuver. There is a good chance that the main gear was not even “up & locked” and could have been ripped out of the wheelwells.
With no flaps, imagine if it had stalled. Too nasty to contemplate.
I bet an FAA or EASA representative will be investigating this. If they over-stressed the airframe then they might yank the pilots’ licenses and de-certify the aircraft. Neither would ever fly again.
pilots from the new banzai airlines making a practice run.
FUCK YEAH!
#7 – Would that mean the C5 took off at a slower speed for a maximum rate-of-climb takeoff?
Maybe there was a very strong headwind.
The airline’s name is Eurowings. It’s part of Lufthansa.
I’m with Robin Friedrich on this one, this is a big model. Look at the airplanes and the camper _behind_ the Airbus and compare size…
Ex-military pilot. Very cool.
and how many of you are pilots or controllers?
Most famous Scarebus video
Sylvain, this aircraft is on a runway on the far side of parked private airplanes. Yet, the airliner still dwarfs the piston engined private planes. If it is a model than would have to be a full-scale one.
That looks like a John Wayne Airport takeoff. Don’t wanna bother those rich Newport Beach folks with your nasty plane noise.
I haven’t flown out of SNA in a very long time. So I don’t know if they still do this. When you take off, you go what feels like straight up. Then they cut the engines way back and glide over Newport. Then once the get over the Pacific they crank up the engines again and do a more normal altitude gain and flight.
So I’m guessing this takeoff is to demonstrate the plane’s noise abatement compliance abilities for places like SNA.
HeeHee, I took ground school in college but never enrolled in flight school (too damn expensive). However, I have been an aircraft design engineer for over two decades for both military and commercial aircraft, fixed and rotary wing, manned and unmanned. You name just about any major U.S. aircraft program built in the last twenty years and I have either worked on it or know someone that has (aerospace is a pretty small world). I am surrounded by both pilots and wannabe pilots at the office. This is the type of thing that ends up getting forwarded to everyone in the work group.
I’m not an aircraft expert but I think I might rate a tad higher than the average D.U. poster.
Thanks #13. For those who still taken in by the optical illusion… on the initial roll of the jet note the red/white shack and tower next to the runway. (0:12) That is an ILS transmitter. I know how big they are (tower is about 20′ tall). A real Airbus would dwarf it. It’s obviously a nice model RC airplane using the new generation of micro-jets you can buy. It is not on a runway on the far side of the GA planes. It’s in front of them.
Robin, I am nearly positive that the model theory is mistaken. The private planes are parked on the grass just off the tarmac which is nearest the camera. This grass is between the tarmac and the runway. The planes are most likely hundreds of feet from the runway. I know of no commercial airport where you can park your aircraft mere feet off of the runway or that allows ANYTHING (even helicopters) to depart directly from the tarmac.
You can see in the first few frames that there is a taxiway nearer to the camera and that the jet is obviously on the runway on the far side. These first frames give you a perspective of how big this aircraft actually is.
Here, the initial view of the runway is an edge view and appears only as a sliver when compared to the taxiway on the near side. This taxiway joins the tarmac where the private planes are parked and is likely even wider there for ground maneuvering and parking. At this point in the video, the runway appears to be obscured by the private planes, vans, the grass, and the motion blur. Go through the video frame by frame and you will see that it is indeed there on the far side of the prop planes.
As for the Airbus height, the tail is 38′ 8.5″ tall with the aircraft on its wheels. The aircraft had already rotated when it passed the tower. The tip of the tail was likely only around thirty feet above the runway at that point. As for the height of the ILS tower, do you know the actual measurement or are you guesstimating? Could it be 35+ feet and not twenty-ish? Anyway, I doubt they are a standard height, only a standard as to how they operate.
Also, I guess that this is somewhere in Europe. One YouTube commenter claimed it was in Friedrichshafen, Germany but I doubt that based on the fact that there are no buildings on the far side of the runway. Anyway, I doubt their towers are identical to the ones in the U.S.
I don’t claim to be any sort of expert on planes but when an airbus is closer to me than a bunch of small prop driven planes in the background and the airbus looks the same size or even smaller than the prop driven planes I say the airbus is a modal.
YMMV.
The A319 is the smallest of the airbus A series. If it was empty of cargo and passengers I don’t see why it couldn’t do this.
People have a short memory….
Boeing 707 was doing barrel rolls on its inaugural flight. That was in 1958. I would very reasonably expect that a modern jet liner would be able to do what we saw.
Mark. I’m quite sure of my conclusion. There is no indication that this is a commercial airport, not any proof of a distant runway. There’s no control tower. It looks to me like any medium sized civil airport (and yes they do park like that at fly-ins. A fly in is precisely the kind of event where this expensive RC model demo would take place.
The ILS towers are limited in height as they have to be located adjacent to the runway for alignment reasons and any taller would make them a safety hazard to planes. (I am a pilot)
Also note the blacked out area at 0:14; seems to be a videographer hiding something which would make the optical illusion fail.
Also Eurowings is a German local commuter jet carrier but they do not operate Airbus aircraft not do they plan on acquiring them.
Hi,
This does appear to be a real Airbus and they can perform such manoeuvres however they do not do this when they have passengers on-board.
I would assume this was an Air show when they do pull all sorts of crazy stuff to show what the aircraft can really do rather than what it normally does.
Regards
Simon
#20, Robin,
The ILS tower is the optical illusion. That is the perspective from using telescopic lenses. The more distant the object, the larger it appears compared to closer objects to the camera.
The General Aviation craft in the front are lined up on an apron between the 319 and the camera. That same perspective makes the 319 appear even larger.
#12 Cranky … Looks like you’re in the know…
I used to work at Allied Signal and designed MLS equipment for STOL aircraft. What a C5 can do is truly astonishing when it has no cargo – it has monster engines.
My manager rode a C5 in an Alaska airfield to test MLS gear. The military pilot literally had every engineer from Allied flat on the cargo floor (strapped) and vomiting!
Certain Alaska airfield require special nav equipment for wicked steep glide path requirements because of mountains. MLS provided that capability. Yes, the C5 is the plane!
The engine sound is completely unlike that of any jet engine used in RC aircraft. Sounds like a very large high bypass turbofan (which it is).
According to its website, Eurowings had 24 A319s and A320s by 2005 and five A319s in the 1997-2000 frame.
One thing: The plane is airborne at 0:12. It flies more or less parallel to the runway (doesn’t climb) until 0:21, probably accelerating for these 9 seconds. At 0:21, the nose lifts quickly.
I think military fighter jets can do this from takeoff and climb with the thrust of the engines not lift from the wings. Commercial jets lift their noses much more slowly.
Is there a name for this kind of takeoff?
That would be a mud field takeoff in a Cessna. Accellerate to minimum t/o speed, accellarate in ground effect until climbout speed and pull back