AirTran Airways Departure @ Los Angeles (LAX) Airport

Early morning departure of AirTran Airways flight 048 with service to Atlanta, Georgia. Sorry for the quality of the clip, I didn't realize I wasn't shooting the wing most of the time, getting up that early sucks! Also, note how long the plane accellerates down the runway, the captain wanted to get quite a bit of speed clearly before he rotated!

Note: Apparently, this video has already been ripped to an outside site. Please note, I have added a secret watermark throughout the video, one which I have identified in other videos. Please, do not rip this video without the consent of the videographer.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• AirTran Airways
• Departure
• LAX
• ATL
• Arrival
• Flight 48
• Taxi
• Take-off
• Wing
• Engine
• Accellerating
• V1
• V2
• Rotate

[worldtravellerplus]

Interesting observation. Though the in my opinion, the quicker you get upto speed, the quicker you are in the air, which in turn means there are less chances for error.

[Jmendez222]

Now see if there happens to be an error on the departure path down the runway they can notice it quickly and still be on the ground to handle it and stop the plane, but see if they were already in the air.... it might see me to be too late... so they have reason for the things they do.

[otterman11]

Nice video. I read somewhere that FL does a reduced thrust take off from LAX (maybe other cities too). So that long takeoff roll is common for FL at LAX. I used to live less than 1mi from LAX a few years back and I would see the FL 737 in the morning (your flight) use as much runway as the KLM 744 leaving for AMS that evening. Every day I'd drive to and from work and see those planes leave.