An extremely heavy, fully loaded Russian IL-76 takes off from an Australian airfield and barely clears the end of the runway. The Aussie tower crew provides color commentary. Har!
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This is a typical takeoff for this airplane. Google “IL-76 long takeoff”.
[Yes, but not on a runway of that length… and I Googled it and most all the entries pointed to this video. – ed.]
“The Vodka burner is rolling” 🙂
“The vodka burner is rolling.” 🙂
Holy Jet-A Batman, the Ilyushin 76 didn’t even rotate until he was at the runoff point. Like the tower said, “If I hadn’t seen it I wouldn’t have believed it.”
That’s one monster airplane with a gross T/O weight of 340,000 lbs.
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/il76/
#2 Agreed!
Cripes. Sitting here with a couple of pilots including my wife. And she’s saying nice and loud in my ear – “rotate, Rotate, ROTATE!”
Unbelievable.
What does rotate mean ???
Must be unnerving to have your abort speed 70 knots and your take-off point another mile away?
Rotate is what you do==bring the elevator back to raise the nose of the aircraft to take off attitude to fly off the runway. If you do it too soon, your air speed may bleed off due to increased drag and you can crash.
Is that A/C simply underpowered or was it simply over loaded==and==does Aeroflot really make their pilots fly in that envelope?
#7, mojo,
When you sit on a protuberance and turn around.
8)
With the inline configuration of the main gear I doubt there is a lot of rotation available without blowing the rear tires.
Love the commentary!
It’s pretty typical for Russian crews to load their planes literally up to the ceiling without regard to weight.
And the result is sometimes a plane which is too heavy to fly or a center of gravity beyond control. Flying by brute force and luck.
Wow!… I thought it looked like a pretty burly plane to begin with…
A flying freight train….
We have Smirnoff… lol
Any guesses what was on that thing? Does Putin have a taste for Koala? I’d really love to know.
“With the inline configuration of the main gear I doubt there is a lot of rotation available without blowing the rear tires.”
IL-76 rotating:
Rear tires on main gear look ok to me.
Rear tires on main gear look ok to me.
Maybe. But is it empty or loaded to capacity?
The multi-wheel bogies on most large aircraft are designed to swivel about the connection point to the main strut, allows full rotation in the takeoff configuration without loss of wheel contact.
Here’s an example of another Russian plane, the AN-225. This is an exception to the multi-wheel hinged bogie, and is probably a bear to rotate.
If you wanna push the envelope, put a Russian at the wheel.
#15 “Any guesses what was on that thing? Does Putin have a taste for Koala? I’d really love to know.”
Probably not bound for Russia. These planes do charter for heavy hauls around the globe.
#16–hopper. Hard to tell in the shadows but I copied pic into adobe and made various corrections and what not and the rear tires look VERY compressed to me. I wonder how many tires are blown on takeoff?
I guess if you overload the plane like that, a few are blown.