Airplane Porn

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 01/07/2020 at 17:18 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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Like the title says, airplanes landing and taking off from LAX. But in glorious slow motion and 8k UHD .

I think this guy has a thing for Boeing, though. Not many Airbuses represented here.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 17:26

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I’m going to have to check this out on the 4K setup I’ve got going right now. I spent 6.5 years on the ramp at LAX, yet I still enjoy seeing these kinds of videos, especially knowing that it’s someone else slaving away servicing these beasts . But of all aircraft, does the lede image really need to be of the Big Ugly?

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/07/2020 at 17:44

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It is big, and it is ugly, but it’s impressive as hell when you see it up close.

I took this last summer at the In-N-Out. I usually shoot with a telephoto, but this was slo close you could almost touch it and I shot it with my 17-50. Another thing about the 380 is that wing. It’s a damned work of art, the only graceful part of an otherwise ungainly beast.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/07/2020 at 17:55

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I spent 6.5 years on the ramp at LAX

Sounds like a prison sentence. Nobody would let you in?

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 18:01

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I would agree that the wing is amazing, but just too damn big. I can remember the escorts and specific routes we had to use moving those beasts around. It would have been better off with folding wingtips like the 777X. I did get to tour  the prototype on the ramp at LAX during a ‘round-the-world tour before it went in to service, and I will admit it was a pretty impressive sight. But then again, I’ve worked around C-17s and C5s, so the size didn’t overwhelm me.

One of the things that disappoints me about this aircraft is the lost opportunities for something new. Can you imagine what it would have been like to have the cockpit on one level and then a forward passenger view on another? That would have been epic, like those train carriages with the elevated observation deck.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 01/07/2020 at 18:04

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If you knew my old boss, you’d understand that most of us would rather have been in prison than dealing with that assmunch. The horror stories I could tell...

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/07/2020 at 18:05

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I would like to see airlines add a forward camera view to the infotainment screens. Not the cockpit (ALPA would never allow that), just a view out the front.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 18:14

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I think some airlines have provided views from a camera on the vertical stabilizer. And some loooong aircraft, like the 773, have cameras on the belly for maneuvering on the ramp, and those would probably provide a nice view whilst in flight.

It won’t be long before cabin windows are replaced with cameras and LCDs to give an outside view. A blended-wing body airliner could have multiple cabins, separated with walls and fake windows using this setup. Cruise lines are already doing this, giving the cheaper inboard cabins a virtual view to the outside with cameras and big screens made to look like windows.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/07/2020 at 18:30

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T he best rampie stories I’ve heard always involve the honey wagon.

Thomas Donohue > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 18:46

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I like the last look the copilot gives him.....not sure if he was in an approved spotter location or not. 

ttyymmnn > Thomas Donohue 01/07/2020 at 18:59

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He credits the LA Tourism Board, the Airport, AA, and others, so I’m sure he had special clearance to be on the field. Photography is like real estate: location, location, location. And he had some fantastic locations.

Only Vespas... > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/07/2020 at 19:02

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Back in the DC-10 days, 70's/80's AA used a video camera over the shoulders of the Pilot and Co P ilot and showed it on a screen on the passenger cabin bulkhead. It was only partially effective...video in the 70's was pretty bad add to the exposure difference from inside a cockpit to daylight outside. It was mostly black with two windshield shaped images of  the runway at take off or landing.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 01/07/2020 at 19:10

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When I started I was afraid that, as the new guy, I was going to have to do the lavs. I quickly found out, however, that that job paid a premium and was in high demand  and only the most senior people got to do that task, and they usually stayed on it for years at a time. One guy, a perv we called ‘Shaggy’ was our daytime guy and he was hilarious. In all the years I was there we never really had any incidents, to the best of my knowledge.

Only Vespas... > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 19:19

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Nice. 8k. For Any K  some of the stuff looked a little blown out. [Continental 747 on the taxiway] Video hates too much light... The magic hour/night stuff was the best to me. So that music... A little over the top? Why don’t you write something that is a little less heavy than the birth of the solar system soundtracks we all hear when they compile shots of modern planes. It also bugs me that one cannot hear the soundscape of the airport . That’s the real music.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 19:29

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I just sat back and watched it in glorious 4K and it was beautiful . It kind of made me wish I sprung for a 65" set instead of 49". The music was quite pleasant and fitting for the project.

I think the reason you saw so many Boeings is because it was mostly widebodies, and Boeing dominates that market. The CZ 388 and LH 748 footage was stunning. I was surprised to see VS flying a 789 into LAX, and I’ll have to see if they added a third flight. In my day they operated a couple of 346s daily, with a 744 replacing one of those during the summer season.

I never realized how large that football stadium over at the old Hollywood Park site is going to be until I saw this footage, although some of that could be a compression effect from the telephoto lens. I did look at a few pages related to the closing of LAX and saw some pictures of my ex in one of the articles. As much time as she spent over there, usually with her dad, I was somewhat surprised that she and I never went there together. In fact, in the 20+ years I lived right there I never once visited the track.

The baggage tug footage was probably not shown in slow motion - those things, especially when pulling a few heavy containers, are not that fast.

Thomas Donohue > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 19:34

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Yeah, the way the pilot looks at him just makes me think he was somewhere that you wouldn’t normally see a person (other then airport personnel).

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/07/2020 at 20:08

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There are a few different cameras tail, nose, and bomber view. i think also left/right

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 20:17

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I’ve had friends in Airport Operations and would go on various ridealongs, getting to see many parts of the airport invisible to most. Thanks to those trips I got a lot of great shots to redo the pictures on the wall in our office. If you have a legitimate need for filming, you can get to some great spots when working directly with ops.

Just Jeepin' > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 20:40

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Saw this game today at Half Price, figured you’d be interested.

ttyymmnn > Just Jeepin' 01/07/2020 at 20:58

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That is definitely relevant to my interests. Thanks!