mr_quigley
1st Jun 2010, 11:19
Hi folks, long time lurker, first time poster here on these fascinating forums :)
My question is this, I saw something quite amazing yesterday whilst with my family at the viewing park over at Manchester
We got there about 11:30 and within the first half hour a Virgin 747 taxied past us on it's way out to 05L - waited a few minutes for an inbound then lined up and commenced the take off roll... perfectly normal until it suddenly rotated about level with the Concorde hangar and shot off in a very steep climbout.
Checking on the usual places, the usual VS to Orlando, according to them went at the normal 1025 departure time, and no other Virgin flights are listed for that day - so my question is this - I doubt that a 747, even with not many passengers, bags etc. could get airborne in such a short distance fuelled for a transatlantic flight so would this have been a positioning flight, say a ferry down to Heathrow or Gatwick.
My question is this, I saw something quite amazing yesterday whilst with my family at the viewing park over at Manchester
We got there about 11:30 and within the first half hour a Virgin 747 taxied past us on it's way out to 05L - waited a few minutes for an inbound then lined up and commenced the take off roll... perfectly normal until it suddenly rotated about level with the Concorde hangar and shot off in a very steep climbout.
Checking on the usual places, the usual VS to Orlando, according to them went at the normal 1025 departure time, and no other Virgin flights are listed for that day - so my question is this - I doubt that a 747, even with not many passengers, bags etc. could get airborne in such a short distance fuelled for a transatlantic flight so would this have been a positioning flight, say a ferry down to Heathrow or Gatwick.