Lockheed Electra - takeoff from runway

This 15-second movie clip shows the National Science Foundation Lockheed Electra rotate, lift off, and stow its landing gear on takeoff.

On March 24, 1998, an L-188 Electra aircraft owned by the National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia and operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, flew near Boulder with an Airborne Coherent LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) for Advanced In-flight Measurement. This aircraft was on its first flight to test its ability to detect previously invisible forms of clear air turbulence.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• lockheed
• electra
• takeoff
• lidar

[RichieEaglefreak]

that plane has a d**k

[yaknbo]

this isn't a lockheed electra

[JBofBrisbane]

@madisonelectronic - sorted decades ago. Hence the L-188A designation.

[JBofBrisbane]

@PistolPete2 - Actually, the Orion has a shorter fuselage, a taller fin (I think), a different shaped nose radome and an extra glass panel in the middle of the windscreen compared to the Electra.

[madisonelectronic]

Whirl mode. AMF.

[Proplinerman]

I flew on a KLM Electra from Milan to Amsterdam in June 1968. I was 10 at the time and remember it quite well. A very impressive aircraft. I've seen a lot more of them over the years, but never got another flight in one.

[peteacher52]

When Auckland International Airport was at Whenuapai, we would go out to see friends off to Sydney in an Electra, for a journey that would take over four hours. The big Allison turboprops with square-cut propellers made a unique sound; and the kerosene odour of the exhausts; sights and sounds from childhood never to be forgotten.

[SFConifer]

There goes a Lockheed!

[WC3POchannel10A]

@stebo222 This may have been footage from the '90s when I was working at NASA Dryden. We had a program flying that aircraft out of the airport you seen in Broomfield, Colorado for environmental research jointly with NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research there in Boulder.

[oinb]

they used to fly Sao Paulo-Rio de Janeiro

awesome