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Old 2nd Jul 2009, 09:55
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18-Wheeler
 
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Not quite what you're after, but I've seen right up the tailpipes of a 747-400 a couple of times, when they were taking off out of Cairns on runway 15. The procedure there has you starting the turn at 400' so very early, and where we parked the plane in the morning it was perfectly placed so we could see right up the back of the engines as the aeroplane banked around.
Just for a second of two, I could clearly see four bright-orange glowing donuts, one per engine.
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