747 Landing at Heathrow

The video'747 landing' shows a Malaysian Airlines (I think so!) Jumbo jet landing on the North runway of the London Heathrow, UK. The video was taken with a PSP and Go!Cam at 30 fs.
If you watch this with Windows Media Player with Play Speed Settings activated, you can advance frame by frame. Each frame is 1/30 s apart....
If you look how many frames the plane takes to cross a fixed object, say a lamp post, and if you know the lenght of a Jumbo (70.7 m for a 747-400, http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/stats.main?id=100) you can figure out its landing speed.

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Education

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• Plane
• 747
• Physics
• Landing Speed
• Windows Media Player