CRAZY IL-62 Takeoff! - Reaction
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This is one of the CRAZIEST takeoff videos I have ever seen. A friend of mine sent me this clip and told me to please explain it, so here I am.
This takeoff was filmed a few months back in NiĆĄ airport. It portraits a cargo IL-62 aircraft, a 4 engine soviet freighter.
As you can see in the clip, it only marginally manages to clear the end of the runway.
In this video I will react to this clip and explain a bit more about takeoff performance and why it is so important to adhere to it!
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Msaviator22 - âą EXTREMELY LOW & RISKY ...
Topfelya - âą Ryanair Boeing 737 Lat...
âReporting bird strike.â â Where were the birds?â âIn their nests!â
Haha
LMAO DEAD.
dude you made me laugh out loud alone for over 30 seconds ahahahahaha
In that case it should be the birds reporting an engine strike ...
LMFAO
Capt. Sully had his bird strike and Capt. Badinov will need to explain his squirrel strike.
Best airstrike is hedgehog strike
Shoulda hired Capt. Gudenov.
underrated
Squirrel strike lol đ
I forgot what video was the hedgehog strike. Can i get it.i want to listen to it again
Thanks for watching, I'm glad you found my video interesting! Greetings from NiĆĄ, Serbia! :D
So it was then somewhere else in Europe and the whole internet, as usual, blames the Russians anyway? đđ
@@mihan2d We know Putins cool so he wont nuke rite
yo, did the plane made it over that hill mate, where's the rest
@@busfahrer09 the rest of the plane or the cargo?! đ€Łđ€Ł
@@maurobobo6923 rest of the video ofc
Pilot: " .... "
Co-pilot: " ... "
Pilot: " ... "
Co-pilot: " ... rotate?"
Pilot: "Oh shit, is it my turn already??"
_check watch_
_check calendar_
*_PANIC_*
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The only thing keeping the plane off the ground is from the curvature of the earth.
Hahaha!
Haha sad but trueđ
That's an old joke about heavy airplanes đ never *gets* old though!
da thats why Russia planes are big đ€Ł
Well, THAT proofs all flat earthers wrong!!! Definitely !!!
as they say in Russia:
"we payed for entire runway so we use entire runway!"
Hahaha!
But did they pay for the trees?
@@robainscough no, this is why they left them intact ;-)
That's true.
@@robainscough they paid for trees trimming :)
My first overseas flight was on an Aeroflot IL-62 in 1992, on my way to a new job and two years in Russia. As we climbed out of Montreal a galley compartment came open and the dinner cart came rocketing out, shooting through the Business Class compartment and lodging against a seat behind me. A harbinger of what I was to see on Aeroflot domestic flights over the next couple of years. Crazy times. I switched to KLM for international flights.
The 90th are knows as the Evil Ninetieth for reason. It's really upsetting when people test a thing in it's worst time in history and then reject it forever.
Under normal conditions, a loaded (170t) Il-62 requires a 3250 m runway to take off. NiĆĄ Airport has 2 runways - 1700 grass one and 2500 asphalt one.
Good to know
I recall someone tell me the IL-62 are not allowed to land here in Copenhagen because they can't clear the barrier at the end of the runway when taking off - which may or may not be true, but the barrier is there to protect all the buildings right next to the airport. And the runway that goes out over the sea isn't very long
What do you mean with "a grass one"? Is that for helicopters?
@@natalja3471 Probably for jet and propeller aircraft. Some aircraft are especially constructed for take-off and landing on grass airfields. Some russian airliners have that capability.
« Normal conditions » doesnât mean anything.
As it is explained by this pilot in the video, the runway length needed for an aircraft to take off depends on many factors : aircraft weight, outside air temperature, altitude, runway conditions (wet, dry, slipperyâŠ)etcâŠ
« Normal condition » is meaningless.
ATC: How much runway do you need for take off?
Russian Pilot: Da!
How much do you have?
@@redguard2529 Da!
Russian Pilot: How much runway have you got? We'll not waste any of it.
Endless...
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Dangerous.. "Where is V1? Oh, it is on the airport fence up there.."
If a fly had flown into one of those airconditioners they would be toast.
The runway is only about 2500 meters long when this plane needs more than 3000
IL-62 is such a beautiful airplane. Love watching them.
It is but definitely not close to the original VC10. That is the best looking passenger aircraft ever made
@@EFFEZE il 62 white swan in front of vc 10 duck) sounds more beautiful and flies further
Too bad itâs a death trap
@@goclunker No its not - just more anti-Russian crap
@@apollobouncer You really should educate yourself more before writing such comments. One of the most deadly aircraft/engine combinations to date.
I would say he has done his take off calc perfectly! Lowest possible thrust setting to conserve fuel and save the planet.
Probably set the aircraft to eco-pro mode running on 2 engines only to conserve fuel
Probably set thrust at lower setting to keep noise down. Those planes were designed in times when noise wasn't as much of a concern.
After the flight pilot tooks saved fuel home and uses for his car, lawn mower and heating ;).
A Greta-friendly takeoff đ±
Save the planet?! My brother in CHRIST did you SEE all those leaves that got blown off the trees; this pilot is a menace
Copilot: Bet one bottle of vodka you cant trim the trees at the end of the runway.
Pilot: Hold my drink and set flaps 15
Julian, there's more in that joke than its intended humour. It was not uncommon for Soviet-era Aeroflot pilots to have a little pick-me-up of the Vodka variety before a flight. Apparently, it promoted the mental well-being required for a stressful flight.
If they drink the vodka, it doesn't count in weight calculations.
@@tomwoodhatch2119 You're not supposed to fly with your hands shaking, I guess.
In college I would pick up international flight crews at O'Hare airport to take to their hotels in downtown Chicago. (Except for Air France, where the pilots were ferried in limousines while the cabin people went in a van!)
On a few occasions the Aer Lingus pilots came out of the terminal very, very 'well lubricated', as the saying goes!
Not really sure anyone can get that drunk after landing a plane, getting the folks off and then walking smartly through customs, out the exit doors, down a few steps and another 30 feet to the van I was driving.
The plane wasn't that big, there weren't that many passangers, from plane to customs to van was only a few hundred meters, so many a 10-15 minute walk, once the paying folks disembarked.
Sorry Aer Lingus, but those guys had to have been drinking before touch down!
You can not get that drunk in less than an hour, on beer! Even if you are only 19 years old!!!
Red faces, blood shot eyes, the smell of alcohol coming out of their skin, talking loud and loose, looking disheveled as all get out, not walking in a real straight line! And from their black valises they would pull cans of beer out to drink while I drove them to the Palmer House!
Not sure that part was illegal but odd compared to all the others I drove!
They were the only guys who ever did that, and it happened more than once. Which upset me so I avoided the Irish pickups. And yes, this was in Chicago, a very, very Irish town!!!
I preferred Mexicana, Air France, Condor, BOAC, KLM, or Icelandic!
The Icelandic folks were wild but in a different way. They would arrive with big but almost empty suitcases. But when I went to the hotel to take them back to the airport I could hardly pick their luggage up, with two hands! I finally asked some of them what the heck they had in their bags!!!????
Fresh meat (beef mostly), fresh fruit (blue berries, strawberries, oranges, grapefruit), canned goods, hardware and tools! One stew took an ironing board to the airport. And another one had a car door! A FULL SIZED AMERICAN CAR DOOR! (HOLY F, BATMAN!!!)
THAT was tricky to get into the van!!!
Because all of that stuff was imported it was VERY expensive for them so they stocked up while in town! I wasn't sure when they had time to sleep what with all of that shopping!!!
A Mexicana flight I remember well. The oldest person of the entire crew was the Captain! He was 25 years old! (I know this because I asked!) He looked his age though! The rest of them looked like high school kids! And I'm not entirely sure they weren't!
I've got a million stories from that job! It was fun and interesting!
Then there were stories I would over hear while driving crews.
"I heard a cockpit fell asleep while waiting to take off! Is that really true?"
"Oh yes! They could not wake them with the radio! So they sent a set of stairs out to the plane, someone climbed up, knocked on the window, woke them up and they took off! They were already in the que for takeoff!"
Then there were the stories of planes over shooting their destinations because they fell asleep, on autopilot! "Is that really the true?" "Yes!" was the answer I got! Seems they could have missed LA and been half way to Hawaii. How do you even explain that happening to the ofgice?
They didn't go that far out but they missed LA by 100 miles or so. Hadn't descended, anything. Just flew right on past, at altitude!
The good old days!!!
And my grandmother went to high school with Charles Lindbergh! In Little Falls, Minnesota!
I'll tell you about what she said another time! Hilarious! Sad, but hilarious.
And on, and on!
Look up the aeroflot crew whose captain made a bet he could land blind, so they pulled the shades across the cockpit windows and went for it.
It didn't end well.
"Don't waste the runway length when landing"
Russian Pilot : "And Take-off as well, my friend"
Pay for all of the runway, use all of they runway. Russian donât waste runway.
In mother Russia, runway fly's you!
Threeâs nothing as useless as runway behind you. And the only time you have too much fuel is when youâre on fire. . .
@@dewiz9596 I did a short intersection takeoff, once.
lol, if you can rotate before the piano-keys, you still had "potential billable payload remaining" (PBPR)
There were il-62 pilots that regularly flew at Maastricht/Aachen Airport with cargo. They would always take off like this to use less fuel so they could take more cargo. If I remember correct, they were leaking fuel as well... People living in the surrounding area were not very happy about this...
This reminds me of watching the Nimrod take off from Thurleigh in the 80s. They just cleared the fence and clawed their way up. Very loud with lots of smoke on full chat for many minutes. My friend's house was just at the end of the runway about 100yds from the perimeter fence. Exciting times. Thanks very much for yet another fascinating video.
Thats how planes be taking off with me on it after Christmas holidays đ
Hahaha!
You have a wealthy soul though đ
@@MentourPilot - I'm a big guy. They weighed me at the airport getting on a local jet in Philippines. The captain showed me where to sit LOL Who needs to wait for Christmas holidays and packing it in HA HA HA
I'm not sure what was the case here, but I know for fact that these russian cargo planes sometimes use runways way shorter than they normally should, just because there are no other options. IL-62 is an interesting plane, but the 4 engines are there for reason. It is because these engines are not powerful enough to use two or three of them.
The IL-62 also has horrible climb performance. Most of the videos that are online show a slow takeoff roll since those low bypass turbofans take ages to spool up and once they reach rotation speed the aircraft hardly wants to climb.
@@rihardstuka413 hence the full thrust on brakes before starting to speed up on the runway. Now I understand.
Another thought; The 62 is similar vintage to the 707, which was not known for short takeoffs, or landings. That's why you guys have so much spare runway available.
That is an expensive hedge trimmer.
Indeed
@@MentourPilot Haha nice.
the IL96 was described as a "relaxed climber" which is putting a nice spin on it.
Or maybe reluctant climber lost in translation. :)
Yes but amazing fuel economy in cruise. /s
â@@dyershovfor you a Russian glass will always be half empty ;)
Between 1987 and 1996 I worked as an aircraft mechanic with Swissair at GenĂšve Cointrin AĂ©roport. Up until about the mid-nineties Geneva Cointrin was one of the best airports in the world for plane watchers. Working there was the first time for me to see so many Soviet built aircraft on a regular and daily basis. Aeroflot would occasionally fly in with Il-62's like in this video. There were also the Boeing 727 look alike in the form of the Tu-154, which was actually bigger and reportedly faster than the 727. Polish airlines LOT had daily flights from Warsaw with the Tu-134, which resembled the MD-80.
Before the war, Iraqi Air had regular cargo flights with the Il-76. They were very well maintained and painted green.
One common Soviet design feature I noticed immediately about the various Russian built commercial and cargo aircraft was the anhedral (drooping) of the wings. Western aircraft engineers, Boeing, Lockheed, McDonnell-Douglas etc, always preferred a wing with dihedral (angled up). Why the Russian boys were so stuck on the anhedral design is a mystery to me. Apparently it had some speed advantages and looked kind of racy.
I got a chance to check out all these aircraft very closely since they would ask for technical assistance, or a mechanic on ground for push-back. My favorite Soviet plane was the Tu-134. The first time I went aboard to ask the pilot a question I was amazed at the sheer size of the cockpit. The Tu-134 was not much bigger than a DC-9-51 but had a 5-man cockpit. That's true 1950's style. There was pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, radioman and navigator. Lot didn't use a 5-man crew but the stations were all there. The 134 also had a bomber style, glass nose with a station to lie prone. I'm not making that up. I was told that the 134 was originally designed as a medium range bomber but became a passenger plane instead. That doesn't defy belief once you venture into the cockpit area and see the glass nose.
One summer night a Cubanair Il-62 from Havana taxied up to in front of our Swissair maintenance hangar. It was the first time I got to see one really up close. It's a surprisingly huge aircraft and a proper intercontinental passenger jet. Again, I think the Soviets copied the west with their design because it's nearly a twin of the smaller, British Vickers VC-10 of the 1960's. They were having some engine problem on one of the port side engines and asked for a maintenance platform. We pushed one up and they got to work. I asked if I could enter the aircraft and they said ok. This was thirty years ago so I don't remember every detail other than it was surprisingly roomy inside. I think the seating was 2-3-2 if I recall. The cockpit was very spacious.
Something very noticeable about the Soviet era jets is the blue paint inside the flight station. It doesn't matter if it's Ilushin or Antonov, military or commercial, they're all painted a sort of greenish blue. If this is still the practice I don't know. Also, the Russian planes I saw were comparatively primitive to western aircraft. Everything was pretty much analog when Swissair and others were increasingly digital cockpits. This doesn't detract from the overall solid construction of the eastern aircraft. As far as Geneva airport was concerned there was rarely any flight delays and missing their slot due to maintenance issues with these Russian planes.
I found the Russian planes to be very well built, interesting by their design contrast, reliable by reputation and I took every opportunity to look at little details whenever I got a chance. Your video brought back some great memories so thanks Mentour Pilot. I'm retired now but sometimes miss the noise and hustle bustle of Geneva airport.
As a current aircraft mechanic in the US this is very cool to hear! I always thought it would be cool to see these old Soviet aircraft in person one day, or even the older British aircraft like the VC 10, BAC 111 etc. Being in the US though the chances of seeing any of those are slim to none haha
I never saw the VC-10 or the Trident ( a slightly smaller Brithish version of the Boeing 727) but the BAC-111 was still a daily visitor to Geneva until about 1990-91.
The 111 was about the size of a DC-9/51. It had Rolls Royce Spey engines and was a real ear splitter. They tried to mitigate the high decibel level with a hush kit which was a goofy looking tube that looked very much like a massive piece of hose pipe stuck onto the back of the engine. It worked just enough to meet new noise standards in western Europe but eventually it was phased out.
The 111 may have sounded like a screaming 1950's jet fighter but it was a bit underpowered and didn't climb all that fast. I flew on one to London with BA (British Airways), probably in the late '80's...around that time.
BA had daily flights to Geneva and Zurich from London. They eventually replaced the 111 with the BAe-146 if I recall.
Another cool plane I got to fly on was the Sud Aviation Caravelle before it was phased out in 1988. The last Swiss company flying them was CTA. I think they has two or three of them. They were beautiful but also underpowered a bit.
I'm and old man, 70, but had the great good fortune of having traveled a great deal in my youth. As a toddler and then at six years old I crossed the Atlantic in the Lockheed Super Constellation in 1959 with KLM. In 1965 I crossed again in a Swissair DC-8. I also flew in the Swissair Convair Coronado 990.
My late dad was in the hotel business so we moved around a lot. That's how I got to fly around so much and eventually get into aviation maintenance instead of hotels.
Back when it was the U.S.S.R. I was on a flight that took off in the same way. Luckily, at the time, the airport was not surrounded by buildings and a leisurely and gentle climb from an altitude of about 5 meters was possible. There was seemingly little concern for the weight of the aircraft.
Serbia was never USSR
@@davidjr4903 That was not the point.
You should review the background of the Il-62. What you seen is typical takeoff for that bird. It's very heavy with poor performing soviet era engines. Some of the older ones have a fourth wheel carriage under the tail to keep the bird from teetering onto the tail when unloading due to the center of gravity being behind the wing landing gear. All controls are manual with little hydraulic assistance.
Some rusky aircraft are made of cast iron not titanium so they tend to be heavier .
â@@sharoncassell9358"rusky" is the reason why many Russians want to reduce you to radioactive ash. Think about poor Ukranians before insulting us.
âItâs a four engines, quite rare Russian aircraftâ
If they all fly like that it may be a clue as to why they are rare.... ;p
They have rear-mounted low-bypass turbofans so they're impossible to upgrade, and fuel economy of these is rather poor by today's standards. So when they get damaged they get written off, it's not worth to pay extra to keep it flying.
@@valeremkin5188 Yes, you sholud google how uncontained failiure of engine can damage rest 3
Just an interesting fact about IL-62 - it has no boosters. Controls are fully mechanical.
maybe there are only two engines working?
@@valeremkin5188 You really should think again about this comment... One of the most deadly aircraft and engine combination up to this day.
"you cannot break the laws of physics"...
But you can push the safety margins.
"in soviet russia laws of physics are breaking you"
XD
Every SUV driver in the snow
@@jskratnyarlathotep8411 they tend to do that everywhere when you challenge them; and they don't care if you had a bad childhood ^^
I thought your use of the word 'shrubbery' was just hilarious! I was rolling on the floor laughing! It just hit me as so very funny; it just isn't a word I expect to hear people speak when not native English speakers. I thought maybe someone might say 'plants' or 'bushes', or maybe 'the short trees' at the end of the runway! Shrubbery is so perfect, so exact but so formal, it just made me laugh and laugh at its correctness and formality.
I still laugh hard when I see this, many months after the initial viewing! As funny as any Laurel and Hardy movie. Or The 3 Stooges!
I love all of your videos.
I worked for several commuter airlines and subsequently refueled commercial, private and charter aircraft when I was in my 20's and attending college. I learned quite a bit from pilots, ground crew and the mechanics. It was a great experience.
Thanks
In the late 80s I was working in the tower at KISP. TACA was flying charters to the Caribbean in a 727-100, which was already ancient back then. They had a few very long takeoffs. One, off a 5200 ft runway, caused the airport personnel to inspect the approach lights at the departure end of the runway as it was believed they may have struck them. Flight standards investigated and found they were using the Mexican weight standard, which at the time was something like 135 pounds per adult. They were, of course, loaded full with 200 pound New Yorkers.
V1, rotate
5 minutes later: Positive rate..
V1, spool up, relise the brake
First officer: wasnt it the wrong order.
.... no
V1, rotateâŠ
Same to you buddy, sit on it and spin.
Looks like they were just taking off with the APU.
With RAT actually
The airline is Rada Airlines, according to the original video. They're based in Belarus, established five years ago, and do chartered cargo flights with a fleet of two Il-62s. This according to their website (I quickly googled them just now).
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Suck suck suck suck...
Hey, you got yourself a like!
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The delorean approach. You'd better hope you reach 88 before you hit that drive through cinema screen.
Russian Captain: "The local farmer is a friend of mine. He asked me if I can do him a favour and harvest all his apples. I said "Da!" "
I absolutely adore the whine of Soviet engines...
I experiences something like this as a passenger on a charter flight flying out of Kathmandu, Nepal, 11,000 foot altitude. We were due to take off in the early morning, but the whole tour group plus luggage was too heavy for the plane and flight conditions. Interestingly, it worked to just wait for a weather, temperature, and pressure change, and we were good to go.
As a group, we chose to wait rather than to split up. I'm glad the pilots knew their stuff and avoided danger for us all.
Thank you, Mentour, for your interpretation of the late take-off by the abovenamed aircraft.
That's "Cross yer Fingers Airways",a division of "Brown Pants "
Nice
You should better say serbian pilot because it happened in Belgradeđ
Every time I see a TO like this, itâs always a Vodka burner.
Industrial strength vodka is probably cheaper than jet fuel these days.
The Aerosucre one that crashed was a 727.
I flew on one as a passenger many years ago, it was a very comfortable a/c with huge legroom. Was quite something to look out the window at the fixed leading edge droop, and the row of attaching bolts on the flange for the wing. In the end I enjoyed it.
In the 1990s, there was an airline called Tower Air that operated ARN-JFK with a bunch of old 747-200s. Just about EVERY takeoff looked like this - and they had (an obviously full cabin of) passengers onboard... I LITERALLY had my finger on the crash alarm button several times...
That was a scary takeoff. I remember over 20 years ago I was flying for work here in Alaska. We were Lin a Piper Navajo, Iâm a passenger in the co-pilots seat, plane is full with a 100 lb in the aisle. The runway was gravel and it was soft from thawing. We took off with the stall warning going off and we dropped down into a river valley before we started climbing. I had a similar experience in a Cessna 185. I volunteered to set up communications for a checkpoint on the Iditarod Race. After I was done we picked up another tech at a cabin. After we were loaded the pilot didnât use all the runway and it was another stall warning takeoff. I was sitting next to him with a headset . He said whoops and then asked how much stuff we carry.. I always had weights on my tools and survival gear.
Until I started watching your videos I had no idea about all the calculations you guys had to do..... luggage weight & loading, passengers weight, etc. Here I was thinking "do,di,do I'm in, let's go"!" I have enormous respect for you guys, taking us safely from point A to point B, thank you!
There was a time when passengers were weighted before entering the aircraf. That important.
Roll one foot after relesing brakes..
First officer: V1
What makes you think the brakes were even released?
It wasn't just shrubbery at the end of the runway. The landing gear barely cleared a chain link fence.
When I first saw the vodka burner vid from Australia I didnât realize how crazy it was. Now I do.
Me: Gets a 30'' screen.
Mentour: Puts the video in 1/10th of the screen, while the sofa takes 1/2 of the screen for nothing ^^
I watch on a phone. Saw absolutely nothing.
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In English please .
@@AlcyonOdyssey He said, "we could take one more box of cargo, as the captain thought (after takeoff)"
@@maailman_mies | "We could take one more bucket of cherry!"
Exactly this aircraft already suffered a runaway excursion in 2018. EW-450TR, Sudan.
Nice background information
EDIT: well... 'nice', the information should maybe be concerning, but you get what i mean :P
That plane is 36 years old. It's pretty amazing that it is still flying :)
Plenty of 757s are 35+ years old and they certainly perform quite a bit better
an explanation for atleast the very "late" takeoff seems to be that the Airport runway is 2502 m long. while the typical takeof length when fully loaded is 2400-2500m for this plane.
Good to know
3500*
IL-62 was the first aeroplane I've even been on. 7hr flight across Russia. I was very nervous when yellow liquid started slowly leaking from the patch on top of the wing. However, frequent flyer next to me reassured me that's normal.
Did this frequent flyer mention what the heck it was đł
There's a difference between "happens all the time" & "normal" đ
Let me guess, there were no seats either? Standing room only?
And yet somehow this aircraft ended up with the best safety record of any Soviet airliner. Go figure.
â@@jaycho6747for nazis like we have only lying "seats" underground.
When I was at Engineering School we were on the edge of an old wartime airfield (now used by general aviation), and one of our lecture halls was an old hangar near the edge of the field, overlooking the end of the runway and a high pampas grass boundary hedge. The field was also used by topdressing aircraft including an old DC3, and when we heard this thing winding up for takeoff we'd all rush to the windows to watch in case they finally overloaded the Dak too much. Its propwash used to blast the pampas grass as it skimmed over it and once it actually put its wheels through the top of the hedge. It never actually took out the hedge, though, somewhat to our disappointment.
đ the look on your face. You are totally mr sensible and to see your reaction was priceless đ. Brilliant.
I have recently found your channel by coincidence. I think it is very interesting and informative. Thank you for your nice work. Greetings from Istanbul/ Turkey.
That pilot was brilliant! He was simply hedging his bets :)
Co pilot: we lost engine 1
Tower: cleared for takeoff
Captain: gives copilot side-eye
I flew internal Aeroflot back in 2006, a Tuplov I believe from Moscow to Volgograd and they had no climb rate. As a frequent passenger (I am military) i was looking at the airfield thinking "we should be rotating now" several times on the runways. Never flying internal Russian again. I remember watching one climb out of Volgograd on the horizon and it's climb rate was virtually nil from one side to the other.
Polish Airlines LOT used Il-62 for transatlantic flights back in the 70s and 80s. This aircraft had many flaws which resulted in two tragic crashes in 1980 (flight LOT 007) and in 1987 (flight LOT 5055). I highly recommend to check those incidents up (especially 5055).
One of the LOT pilots flying those machines said that it was always a scary experience to take off on this aircraft fully loaded to reach New York. It required almost entire length of the runway.
At V1 Pjotr and Ivan cheered with a vodka and kept calm
"Ne ssat'! Vsio budet zayebis'! Nizhe zemli ne pizdanyomsia!" :) LOL
@@mikeromadin8744 ypa!
Joke aside, chances of getting away with flying while drunk or suffering a hangover are are probably higher with a cargo plane, at least according to a documentary I saw years ago. The filmcrew actually saw pilots having parties, and drinking, way to close to an upcoming flight to be comfortable.
V1 = take Vodka 1 to continue down the runway, VR = Vodka Repeat
Keep calm and rotate :-D
As we usually say "strictness of russian laws is compensated with that no one obeys them" )
but in fact that means, that there are no laws at all, just the will of the powerful one
It is just the same here in the Mediterranean world. As long as you are not caught, nobody cares.
thank you peter for explaining for us as always. cheers dude
6:57 had me laughing , you caught me off guard there !!
hahahhaha !
Standard take off for staying below enemy radar. đđ Either that, or the pilot owns olive trees beyond the runway perimeter, and wants to shake them down, nice and quick...
I read your comment and instantly thought "this guy is either Greek or south Italian". Then seen your name ;)
PS: I'm Italian by the way, but from the north, we have some olive trees here too, they produce light oil (perfect for fish or other delicate tastes) but definitively it's not a spread cultivation like in the south :)
Actually, original video description says "Rada Airlines", which is Belarussian.
We had a US AF jet take off from RAF Gutersloh like that in the 1980s He backed up to the fence so his main wheels were at the edge of the runway. He held it on the brakes until the engines were screaming then he let the brakes off and took off flat and just made it over the end fence. I was told by my mate in ATC at the Gliding Club that it was direct back to the states
Think our Pilot friend was helping Santa out, whole of the Worlds Christmas presents on board. đđđ Happy Christmas everyone.
Theres a video very similar to this of an IL-76 taking off from Canberra Airport in Australia. It was shot from the control tower
Hi Mentour,
Absolutely correctl on that T/O. Itâs totally surreal and painful to watch. I see from the comment section that people are often referring to the risk taking or lack of any discipline by Russian pilots to be done kind of craziness attitude. I learn to fly aerobatics with Russians and they are great pilots and fun to be with. Itâs important not to generalize the stupidity of a few. There are silly people everywhere.
Eric, CV crew.
Even these pilots are not stupid because the runway is too short for this plane (only 2500 meters long). But anti-Russian bias is everywhere. How all these people are going to end the war, I don't know.
Great video ! FWIW, many years' back I had an acquaintence that flew DC-8s . In the waning days of that administration he claimed to have lifted a load of expats and slobbered off the end of Tan San Ut with consequent poor performance in climb. Later investigation revealed a great many aboard were ( literally) wearing gold suits hence far exceeding the SOP weight assigned for SOB head count ! True or not it makes for a great tale and a precautionary one !
A (FAA & ATA) shout out saying LOVE your videos, very educational and informative. From KMDW, Illinois USA.
In July, 1968 I managed to get a ride on a C-124 that was going on an overnight trip near my home town on a cargo run. On the return back to my base in the east, the C-124 was carrying cargo and passengers. The plane took off at about 1300 hours from an altitude of 5000 feet. The air temperature was approx. 100 degrees. I was senior NCO, riding on the top deck. (The C-124, a 4 reciprocating engine plane that had two interior decks) so I had the earphones to listen to the crew in case of problems. The pilot was a major, and a lt. colonel was traveling along to get flight time. As the plane accelerated down the 7500 foot runway, I was looking out the window and thought he was taking a long time to get up in the air. Then I saw the 7000 foot marker pass by. The plane hugged the sagebrush for far too many seconds gaining speed, then gradually began to climb, finally climbing enough to turn. At that time I heard the colonel tell the pilot, "The next time you want to do that, please let me know and I'll get off"! The pilot responded, "The book saId I could do it"!
When does arrogance overtake intelligence?
1 day I was in LAX & had a loooong layover! As I watched planes departing I'll never forget the takeoff of an Iberian A340! The plane wasn't going as fast as a 747 & it's climb was soooo flat that where it left the ground it disappeared behind the airport building's & out of sight!!
Now we are talking, I love the IL-62. There are not many left and I wish to keep seeing them continue to fly.
lol @ "Dude?!", Great video description ! thanks again
That's the kind of departure I remember watching 707's do in Singapore back in the 1960's.
The IL-62 is built pretty much in the same time - and not only the take-off is 1960ies-style - itÂŽs also the engine sound...
"...we could take one more box" captain thought...
They ooverweight like hel
Another aircraft mechanic and myself back when we were young and not as wise use to ride our motorcycles to the end of the main runway at GSO in like 1995 and everyday around 16:30 a Tradewinds L1011 rolled straight out of its loading area onto the opposite end of the runway and headed our way. The mains did not leave the ground until they were in the stripes. Seemed exciting at the time having it pass over our heads so close but we would have been so screwed if anything had gone wrong. Lol. I also had a Tradewinds pilot tell me they only pressurized the cockpit so Iâm not sure how much training they received before flying this old beast.
Scary sh*t!
The IL-62 is a very old airplane and if memory serves me right, there was an RTO in the late 1970's at ESSA with the same aircraft type with a runway overrun. Pardon me if this is incorrect, but I believe the switch for the hydraulics to enable the rotation at Vr was left OFF.
Nice work, Petter!
Wow!! Crazy late rotation! Love the channel!
Thank you! Glad you like it!
what rotation lol
What we tend to forget is that wartime bomber pilots had to take off under similar circumstances, due to the extremely low power-to-weight-ratio of their four-engined heavies
Which is WHY we don't do it now. Lots of those old piston engines would grenade on takeoff power
Looked like our standard heavy DC-8 takeoff out of KBWI back in the day..................watching from the maintenance truck we thought the bird would take the fence at the end of the runway đ€
This immediately reminded me of the Aerosucre Flight 157 cargo flight in a Boeing 727-200, which crashed shortly after takeoff in December of 2016. They clipped quite a bit more than a few leaves. That plane looked like it almost killed a small group of plane spotters at the end of the runway.
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by the way this particular "jet" belongs to byelorussians
@@mikeromadin8744 They were very nearly âBye byeâ-lorussians!!
@@thomasm1964 AFAIK in russian aviation slang there is a sentence - "the mouth full of soil" (ĐĐŸĐ»ĐœŃĐč ŃĐŸŃ Đ·Đ”ĐŒĐ»Đž)
Unfortunately Russian cargo pilots (especially during the crazy and poor 90s) had not to think about runway length, weight, etc but just only
To take the extra non-very-legal overweight and get the extra money for their wifes and kids or let their families starving and may be even loosing the work...
That "simple maths" may be was taking here also place...
Yeah, a nations economy plays a lot in all around safety and well being. China has seen this for a while (shoddy construction that kills, bribes almost everywhere to get permits passed), and i believe the US is beginning to see the start of it. You have people feeling forced to enforce unconstitutional actions, or let things slide at work and "just go along" because they don't want to lose their job.
When making a living is hard, that's how ignoring safety becomes commonplace.
Was the stig the pilot flying? Your observations reminds me of legendary topgear moments @ 1:00. đđ. Thank you for explaining this event, itâs great to know the facts, you do a great job đđ
Really enjoyed this thorough explanation
I wasn't aware that a micrometer was part of the Minimum Equipment List for establishing positive rate of climb before raising gear!
The jokes write themselves
I'm sure they couldn't risk bouncing on those distant hills
@@guganotubo Yes - that is why UK WW2 bomber bases were predominantly in the flatlands of East Anglia and Lincolnshire. Additionally (and there are still faint traces if you know where to look), hedges in line with runways for several miles were kept cropped short to allow the often heavily overloaded aircraft to burn off fuel in ground-effect before they were able to climb. Wars have different rules though, and I don't think that has ever been approved practice in transport category civilian jets!
It may also be of interest that the standard layout for those bases was with three runways (so six directions) at 60° to one another (normally in an equilateral triangle rather than a star) - this was to make x-wind calculations easy for exhausted crews in sometimes badly damaged aircraft returning after raids - max x-wind component is 30°, so half the actual wind speed. As most of those aircraft were taildraggers, that was even more critical than it would be on a tricycle gear aircraft.
There is another very close call of a Russian 4-engine high wing takeoff from an Australian airport with some control tower humour put into the mix.
"The vodka burner is rolling."
Australia - the land of global warming x 2. Is hard on Russian airplanes.
@@geoh7777 Russian planes were designed to operate in some very hot conditions as well. Like in Kazakhstan in the summer, also summers in Siberia can reach +35 degrees easily.
@@mihan2d and let's not forget Turkmenistan or Azerbaijan. High altitude airports of Georgia and Armenia
Another Aerosucre 157 in the making. In the 90's I was in the jump seat of a cargo DC8-33F (S9-NAB) taking off from 21L at Johannesburg (5,558' asl). Our 0700Z takeoff was delayed by loading until 1100Z by which time it was a full 38°C. I remember the AC basically not rotating at all or climbing, and flying level over the East Rand shopping mall at around 500' before climbing out. Scary at the time!
Those mountains in the background look interesting too... ;-)
The runway at Nis is only 8200' and a fully loaded Il-62 probably would eat up every bit of it, especially if it was hot.
The pilot probably figured he paid for the runway, he might as well use every bit of it!
It was 2500m at the time and this aircraft needs 3150m.
I was in an old, creaking 707 that used up the whole runway like this in Mexico City. I noticed the long takeoff and started to get a little worried. Then I heard someone say, "Any time now!" and I looked out the window and saw the end of the runway zip by, a mere heartbeat after the wheels lifted off. I wouldn't have been surprised to see goats and chickens wandering the aisles. My knees touched the seat in front of me, and luggage compartments were loose and rattling.
A friend of mine was on a Caribbean flight years ago. She told an FA that her seat belt wasn't working, so the FA just tied a knot the belt.
We saw a regional jet takeoff from a 5000' elevation airport and it seemed to rotate near the end of the runway. Seemed shocking but at least they were able to perform a normal climb gradient.
Great video once again
3:52 Fun fact
Military transport planes have another option: JATO.
JATO stands for Jet Assist Take Off and are like rockets that attach to the wrong to give extra thrust at take off.
The C130 Hercules often needs these on Antarctic supply runs when taking off from snow with ski undercarriage. In some conditions the snow gives so much drag that it would not get airborne on jet engines alone even on an infinite runway.
Here at the local airport of Maastricht (Netherlands) we were very used to this kind of takeoff's done by Il76's.
Russians have a different implementation of V speeds. In essence
1) Hit the brakes and open the trottles fully.
2) Release the brakes and accelerate
3) 50 yard before end of runway you have reached Vmust ! and you start pulling.
4) If the aircraft does not fly you have reached VHolyShit (dunno the Rusian term for that)
Just business as ussual. Ohh and yeah i to did do some things i'd rather not discuss, These days i just stay safely on the ground ;)
That works every time, until it doesn't.
@@bbgun061 Thats when you hear 'Whoop Whoop, to low, to late'
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Was on a Saudia Airlines flight out of Jeddah for New York - 747 (one of the mid models I believe). We rotated almost at the end of the runway. It was slow accelerating, I could tell by the lower preasssure on my back. We had to make a refuel stop in Bangor, Maine. Turns out that a prince was on the flight and had his belongings in the cargo hold - probably even a car.
great stuff. good work!! thank you.