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Stunning video of 747 with camera on nose landing gear

By John Dodge | March 6, 2010, 10:11 AM PST

Here’s a little weekend treat for you - a stunning video of a Boeing 747 flying from Johannesburg to Maputo in Mozambique with a Contour HD Helmet Cam affixed to the nose landing gear. The camera records seven minutes and 31 seconds of Flight JNB MPM’s takeoff and landing. A little techno music is thrown into the video for good measure.

Flighblogger speculates the video was shot within the past three weeks because a new Air France A380 that just started flying the Johannesburg route in February can been seen in the background as the 747 taxis for takeoff. Turn up your speakers and enjoy.

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RE: Stunning video of 747 with camera on nose landing gear

Heck of a waste of jet fuel taking a 7 minute flight. 3 of which minutes were spent taxiing the runway. What a pollution causing thing. Anyone who flies like this should be ashamed of the massive damage you do to the planet.

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RE: Stunning video of 747 with camera on nose landing gear

Would have been much more interesting if the camera had been
facing forward.

I don't care for the music either. I would have preferred the real
sounds of flight.

Posted by msuper69

8th Mar 2010

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RE: Stunning video of 747 with camera on nose landing gear

This is cool.. (for those that don't like the music, mute it). It
makes me think of a Forbes/Fortune article I read a few months ago
(don't remember which or even what it was called) about how cheap and
ubiquitous digital cameras/camcorders are going to be, and how quality.
That the chips and even the lens's are going to drop drastically in
price (for example, they can use water to focus now), and how they're
going to be everywhere. An example I remember it giving was relating
to park-tronic for cars... that now they use sensors but the price of
the cameras are coming so low that it will actually be more lucrative
to use cameras and have software figure out what its viewing than the
radar. Just that these things were going to be everywhere recording
everything ... including flight gear of 747's or nose cones? why? why
not?

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8th Mar 2010

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RE: Stunning video of 747 with camera on nose landing gear

Very boring: time lapse (journeys sped up) is an overused medium
and needs something radically new to make it interesting. This
was not it. The taxiing for take off was far too long. No views over
the landscape of the flight itself. The music was atrocious. And
since when was jet flight, promoted solely as entertainment,
smart for the planet?

Posted by pjher

9th Mar 2010

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RE: Stunning video of 747 with camera on nose landing gear

I enjoyed but would have preferred real sounds of the plane. Camera
facing forward would have been boring, IMO...you would not have seen
the plane...especially dramatic when the plane banks...

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9th Mar 2010

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14th Mar 2010

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