Peter wrote:
though I think the apparently almost vertical takeoff is done with a long lens to compress the scene depth.
Yes, I suspect the initial climb is no more than 25 degrees nose up (which is still pretty steep).
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Really impressive, though I think the apparently almost vertical takeoff is done with a long lens to compress the scene depth.
With the 737 flying so close behind the 787, shouldn’t it suffer from wake turbulence quite a bit?
Beautiful! Boeing factory demo pilot must be one of the coolest jobs in aviation.
Gotta love the “Do not attempt” remark at the end.
Pity the 737 Max didn’t show a barrel roll in the old Boeing marketing tradition, presumably a barrel roll would be outside the fly-by-wire envelope for the 787.
