In my time at MAN had a grandstand view from the stairwell of the old T1 office block of the (then) 24 end, and must have watched hundreds of arrivals and departures over the years.
One of the most memorable of those was what I assumed to be an empty BA 757 positioning flight, no doubt aided on the day by a brisk southwesterly, rotate at Bravo and was climbing at what looked like 45 degrees before link Charlie.
Impressive
