One of our Australian TapRooT® Users sent this picture…
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EVA AIR BOEING 747 TAKING OFF FROM AMSTERDAM
(Taiwan’s National Carrier)
EVA Air Boeing 747-45EM taking off from runway 36L at Amsterdam-Schiphol (Netherlands). The great timing and angle just makes this shot, and the size of the 747, looking quite surreal. Someone must have changed his underwear after this one. The distance to the fence was 145 meters (475ft)!
Sometimes it is difficult to get a 747 off the ground!
this is not a near miss,look like it is, that pic is not tanken from end of the runway 36L, check it out from Google map
Photographer just happens to be in the right place?
People just standing around like nothing is happening?
A road, with access, at the end of the runway at any large airport?
Sorry…………I’m not buying it
A BS story as it stands. As Jex says, checkout Google Earth for the end of 36L. Note that it’s WAY out in the boonies. If you get that far, you can see the access road. Draw a line down the road and it will come close to bisecting the runway at the “numbers” (there is maybe 1000-2000′ of clearway beyond the numbers.)
Clearly, the plane is airborne (probably slightly before the “numbers”). Still, it looks like there may have been a miscalculation for TO data IF all 4 engines were running OR late rotation by the crew, wanting to get a little more speed on a heavy weight TO.