Crosswind rock and roll - Keystone Cops version

by flugsnug yo

Published on 31 Oct 2012

A day of 36 knot (41 mph) crosswind gusts makes for some hard landings and twisty take-offs. These shots are speeded up for fun, also to show a few things which are less noticeable at normal speed. Place: runway 33 at BHX, where the airport buildings reportedly can cause wind shear. Just to make things even more fun for the pilots, the ILS wasn't working so the non-directional beacon was used on approach.

Please don't think this video pokes fun at anyone - these guys do a brilliant job getting these things down whatever's thrown at them.

See videohttp://youtu.be/MIK1iObZxis for the normal speed version of selected shots.

Music:
Cut and Run Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Unusual view of runway 33 BHX

by flugsnug yo

Published on 27 Oct 2012

The runway extension works are opening up unfamiliar views of the runway - for the time being anyway. These shots are from the A45 Coventry Road close to where the extension will be.

Debris shower from RAF Tristar Take off Birmingham

sby tuatrescuerooms
Published on 18 Oct 2012

Tristar engine blast showering debris at Birmingham Airport Runway 15
October 2012 Birmingham International Airport
Blast of air at 1:40 and you can see grass and twigs and dust flying past.
They must've just mowed the runway.

The 1000th Boeing 777

Published on 14 Oct 2012 by flugsnug yo

A visit to Birmingham Airport by that superb landmark plane the one thousandth 777 to roll off the production lines, on Emirates flight EK39.

757 heavy bounced landing

by flugsnug yo

Published on 7 Oct 2012

The second shot is the hardest landing that I have witnessed. The first shot is a more typical bounce, also by a Boeing 757, which is included for comparison purposes. In neither case did the spoilers deploy on first ground contact to counteract the bounce.
In the big bounce, initial contact was with the upslope of the bump in runway 33 at BHX, which may have been at least partly responsible for the size of the bounce (the planned southerly extension of the runway should move this bump beyond the main touchdown zone in future).
There was a 90-degree crosswind for both landings.