Thanks Kev. The A380 and the 747 are both incredible planes but the 747 has that something extra that's really hard to define. That was a fantastic video.
Hi Kev, Hello Michelle, I have three 1:200 scale models of the 747 (Lufthansa retro logo, LH 50th anniversary and Boing blue logo), but my top model (747-800) is a 1:100 with a wingspan of 27 inches. The queen of the skies is also a lady. My first flight with an aeroplane was an LH flight from Frankfurt to Johannesburg with a 747 (afterwards I took a DC3 to Gabarone(:)). Have a nice evening - joe.👍🤝👌✈@@AirportAction
@@AirportAction … no dident have a clue it was at the airport until i seen your you tube video of the take off…. My view is when the aircraft take off north and land from the northend of the runway
@@AirportAction I spotted while getting ready to walk the Lufthansa 747-8 flying over me from Frankfurt to Newark Airport. Also a Lufthansa A340 flew over me as well, from Munich to Newark Airport. I simply love a four engine jet liner!
Nice to catch the National B747-400F Queen of the Skies at Birmingham. I never seen one before. Thanks so much for that Kev buddy for sharing. Those are magnificent planes as always. Hopefully we will see you again soon.
And not only empty, we use reduced power sertings when empty as well. You have to see her take off when maintenance calls for a max power takeoff and we have no freight on-board. She just jumps off the ground. I love flying the Queen!
Birmingham does get a 747 every now and again Julie , this being the second one to arrive within a few weeks , but they do not come regularly sadly. @@julieann3290 👍
@@judyzapolski1345 what a party pooper, most of us find Techknowledgy enchanting, thrilling, I adore travel so exciting due to knee surgery May & Dental implants I can’t travel-YET U stay at home with slippers & Ovaltine 😂🤣🌈✈️🛩️🛫it’s saying “ helllo Geekys?!”
Beautiful filming of a lovely aeroplane on a good looking day , typical , I arrived back to a cool cloudy Sydney last night , Sod’s Law I guess 😆. Thanks Kev .
Thank you this wnderful video and nice camera work. What a magnificent plane, with those amazing engines, i enjoyed viewing this over in Oz Thursday am 👍 Au
What a big happy Queen! Prolly just happy to still be flying, even if it's just cargo. Feel a little wrong looking at her backside during line up, but love watching her fly away! Side note: pretty sure BHX's runway was built the wrong way- always with the heavy crosswind. If it went left/ right they could shorten it by, like half!
I’m proud to say I helped build Boeing 747 for hundreds and also help build the last of the 200 and 300 model anyway yeah they were a beautiful airplane without a doubt I think the people that did the engineering and stuff like that back when they built that airplane originally I think they were better what they are today I mean from the approval from the board 18 months later it was rolling out the assembly line can’t do that today
I’ve said this on a lot of fb groups, why get so excited about seeing A380s over and over again, they’re not sleek beautifully designed aircraft, these are what big jets are all about, you can’t replace a Queen of the Skies with a poor substitute and call it King of the Skies? 🤷♂️✈️📷
You have an A380 as your profile photo though? 😂 I'm just joking with you 😂 ❤ but I do however have to agree to disagree, the A380 is a stunning piece of machinery in its own right. 747s are becoming vintage and rare and show us how it's done, but they are old and expensive to run, whereas a380s are showcasing the way in which technology has come on leaps and bounds and shows us that air travel can still be a sustainable way to travel. They're both beautiful in their own ways and that's why they're called what they are by aviation enthusiasts 😊 (sorry if that made no sense 😂)
@@sarahpurpleface thx for your opinion Sarah, I see your point about about its current status in the world of aviation but for me as a photographer it’s not aesthetically pleasing in comparison to most aircraft, especially not the 747? and your right I do have the Singapore A380 as my profile photo, it’s about the livery more than anything else, at the time, before COVID, it passed over mine every morning so I took a lot of photos, I do have a 747 in that livery but it doesn’t fit the space so well lol! 👍📸✈️
@@Terrytheartist There is definitely something about it when it banks and you see it in its full glory like the National did today ❤️ I agree about the Singapore livery, I think it looks great on the A350 too ✈️
@@sarahpurpleface yeh the Singapore A350 is one of the lookers out there! my favourite is Philippine Airlines A350 and you can’t rule out Virgin Airlines as well 👍✈️📸
![National Airlines Boeing 747 at VLC [4K]](/img/n.gif)
That lifted into the air the quickest I've seen. Wow.
It's a stunning livery.
Definitely agree with you , the livery is perfect for the Queen.
I just love to see these girls go up. It is like a nostalgic moment that you feel is running out.
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Wow amazing video thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching 👍
Kev thanks for this clip of the 747 great shots of a timeless plane truly the Queen of the Skies
You are very welcome Keith , thank you for the support also 👍
I would watch this video all day. Thanks, Kev. That aircraft is truly the Queen of the skies. ❤
Thank you lascellescrew , a real Queen of the skies 👍✈️
the 747 will always be remembered as the Queen of the Sky. Such a beautiful aircraft. Great video quality too.
Couldn't agree more , it will be a sad day when the last 747 goes to scrap 👍
What a fantastic take off
Awesome! Those are magnificent airplanes!!
Thanks Kev. The A380 and the 747 are both incredible planes but the 747 has that something extra that's really hard to define. That was a fantastic video.
Agree with you there Fred , and as we used to say here in England " Long live the queen" of the skies 👍
I went long Haul to South Africa 14/15 hours
Appreciate the camera work. He followed it till it landed at the next airport, and taxied.😀🎉
🤣🤣 ....Thank you shreeveda 👍
Greetings from Orlando, Florida U.S. 🇺🇲
Awesome to see NATIONAL AIR CARGO in the UK! Their headquarters is here in Orlando near the airport.
Hi Tony , this stunning Queen fits the NATIONAL livery so well , a first ever visit to BHX as well 👍
Beautiful colour scheme too!
6:27 🤩
Beautiful capturing of the Queen ❤
Thank you PLANEMANIA747 👍
wow! What a magnificeint first for BHX. Even you were left speechless. Listen to it's engines.
Thanks Kev , it was a breathtaking morning for BHX , and thank you as always for the support 👍
She got up real quick.... A beauty 😍
The Queen was empty , up like a rocket Darren 👍
Absolutely Gorgeous Airplane!!
Definitely agree with you Daryl 👍
The most beautyful plane! ❤
Evening everyone I hope your all well, and enjoying your day, evening Kevin & Michelle
Hi Bernadette , we hope you are enjoying the drier weather 👍
Great video excellent footage of a rare beast
Thank you Alex , glad you enjoyed this clip taken from our recent livestream 👍
No tippy toes 🤣😂✈️🤸🏿♀️💃💃🌈🛩️
🤣 Not this time Sue 🤣👍
Looks to have a smile on it's face, still the best aircraft for me , brill video
Thank you @leswall3061 👍
elegant and impressive, simply beautiful - lady of the skies - joe. -
Took the words right out of my mouth Joe 👍
Hi Kev, Hello Michelle, I have three 1:200 scale models of the 747 (Lufthansa retro logo, LH 50th anniversary and Boing blue logo), but my top model (747-800) is a 1:100 with a wingspan of 27 inches. The queen of the skies is also a lady. My first flight with an aeroplane was an LH flight from Frankfurt to Johannesburg with a 747 (afterwards I took a DC3 to Gabarone(:)). Have a nice evening - joe.👍🤝👌✈@@AirportAction
In my life I have met two ladies, a 747 and Queen Mum. That was certainly more than I could have expected.
Live more or less on the flight path of bham airport…..not seen a 747 take off since ward air used to fly in back in the 80s…nice to see them again 👌🏻
Thanks for watching Lee , did you manage to see it from your house as well ? 👍
@@AirportAction … no dident have a clue it was at the airport until i seen your you tube video of the take off…. My view is when the aircraft take off north and land from the northend of the runway
Thanks for the video. A beautiful sight.
Glad you liked this clip Phil 👍
Wow, beautiful.
Nice 747-200
Epic catch! Really cool to see that big rudder movement!
Thank you Landingslowly 👍
What an incredible capture! The 747F used half of the runway for takeoff!
Thank you so much Kev!
It does look like the 747F is smiling!
Thank you Frederick , an empty Queen gets up early 👍
It sure does , the happy Queen Of The Skies 👍
@@AirportAction I spotted while getting ready to walk the Lufthansa 747-8 flying over me from Frankfurt to Newark Airport. Also a Lufthansa A340 flew over me as well, from Munich to Newark Airport. I simply love a four engine jet liner!
Nice to catch the National B747-400F Queen of the Skies at Birmingham. I never seen one before. Thanks so much for that Kev buddy for sharing. Those are magnificent planes as always. Hopefully we will see you again soon.
Glad you enjoyed it Somil , it was a stunning sight to see. Hope to be live again today buddy👍
@@AirportAction Yes will do Kev buddy and thank you so much for that, see you soon. 👍😎
the boeing 747 is the greatest aircraft ever built and the airline industrie will regret ending it as a front line aircraft long live the queen😊
Hi James , although production has now come to an end , we should still be seeing a few of these beauties flying for many more years to come 👍
Fantastic catch, thanks Kevin 👍👍👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it Robert 👍
Need to bring back the 747, iconic
What a beauty!
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And not only empty, we use reduced power sertings when empty as well. You have to see her take off when maintenance calls for a max power takeoff and we have no freight on-board. She just jumps off the ground. I love flying the Queen!
Thank you for sharing that info Caribbeanaviator 👍
That’s amazing! What an aircraft that is 👍
Stunning👍
Stunning, so glad you were there to catch it!
Thank you Sarah , and for joining us today 👍
@@AirportAction did you manage to work out why the stream was glitching? Apparently some other streamers were having a similar issue
That is awesome love the 747
Thank you Julie , a truly mesmerising aircraft with a stunning livery that fits the Queen so well 👍
@@AirportActionyour welcome is that unusual to see the 747 in Birmingham
Birmingham does get a 747 every now and again Julie , this being the second one to arrive within a few weeks , but they do not come regularly sadly. @@julieann3290 👍
@@AirportActionI would love to see one come in
Wait what?? Queen at BHX!! Amazing video, and I just noticed how the symbols on all the engines are different, unlike most other planes!
Thank you planesarecool , this plane is one of the coolest out there 👍
Quite the waste of time. What is so noteworthy of a plane taking off? Or did I miss something?🤔🤷♀️
@@judyzapolski1345 The 747 very rarely comes to Birmingham
@@judyzapolski1345 what a party pooper, most of us find Techknowledgy enchanting, thrilling, I adore travel so exciting due to knee surgery May & Dental implants I can’t travel-YET U stay at home with slippers & Ovaltine 😂🤣🌈✈️🛩️🛫it’s saying “ helllo Geekys?!”
happy new year 2024 welcome to indonesia bandara halim perdana kusuma
Great stream very clear keep up the hard work👍
Thank you 👍
Beautiful filming of a lovely aeroplane on a good looking day , typical , I arrived back to a cool cloudy Sydney last night , Sod’s Law I guess 😆. Thanks Kev .
Thank you David , great to hear you got back to Sydney ok . We really appreciate your support 👍
@@AirportAction . Thanks Kev . Got back safe and sound and on time . Emirates was excellent but still very tiring . See you next times .
I can imagine David , some journey from England to Sydney , take care @@davidcartwright5591 👍
Superb climb out! 👍🏻
Thanks Kev. Gorgeous.
You are very welcome Janet , thank you for the support 👍
Nice video of the national 747 it looked like a short take off as it didn't seem to use much runway to get a street climb!
A Very smart short take off well done .
Thanks Dave 👍
Sad I missed it live happy and a big thanks for posting video Airport Action
Hi volnation , don't be sad at least it's on TH-cam forever for everyone to enjoy 👍
I love the Boeing 747 and I am happy you made my day
Thank you , i am so pleased you enjoyed the footage 👍
Breathtaking
You took the word out of my mouth there Jill 👍
what a beautiful sight ❤
Breathtaking Garfield 👍
Now THAT is is airport action !
Thank you mate 👍
Came in from Hong Kong via Oman
20 seconds from stand still and the big flying giant was airborne 🥰
Incredible 👍
Impressive… Most impressive
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Wondeful ❤
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Thank you this wnderful video and nice camera work. What a magnificent plane, with those amazing engines, i enjoyed viewing this over in Oz Thursday am 👍 Au
Glad you enjoyed it Rob , watching this aircraft glide around the airport before finally taking off was mesmerising 👍
@@AirportAction Yes very nice Thanks 👍
This is the animal
" The Queen " 👍
Oh and btw Kev the light played into your hands there, one of the best bits of footage of a Queen I’ve seen in along time! well done 👍📷✈️
Glad you enjoyed it Terry , and thank you for the kind words 👍
Beautiful ❤close ups, nice capture, one of the best I have ever seen thank you Kevin 😊
Thank you so much Sue 👍
Terrific video, lovely to see the Queen again only this time in 4K. Is that runway really like a switchback or just an optical illusion??.
Thank you Ian , the runway is almost flat , but the dips are magnified due to camera compression 👍
What a big happy Queen! Prolly just happy to still be flying, even if it's just cargo. Feel a little wrong looking at her backside during line up, but love watching her fly away!
Side note: pretty sure BHX's runway was built the wrong way- always with the heavy crosswind. If it went left/ right they could shorten it by, like half!
Funnily enough BHX original runway was left to right ( now used as taxiway from Cargo across towards the fire station ) 👍
Beautifully captured and commented. Big plane on a little flight to Fairford, 24 minutes and didn't go much higher than 8000ft.
Thank you Paulastin 👍
WOW
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Dev'essere stato vuoto perché a preso subito il volo,comunque bellissimo.
i often see the king of the skys a380 fly over streetly but never see the 747.
Maybe one day fishypie , that's 2 747's at BHX within a month , so plenty of time 👍
I’m proud to say I helped build Boeing 747 for hundreds and also help build the last of the 200 and 300 model anyway yeah they were a beautiful airplane without a doubt I think the people that did the engineering and stuff like that back when they built that airplane originally I think they were better what they are today I mean from the approval from the board 18 months later it was rolling out the assembly line can’t do that today
Wow you have a real connection with the 747 family then Jimmungai 👍 Some great memories as well i bet 👍
Awesome footage, was this today!
Thank you Kingfisher , yes it was today . We have the full livestream on the channel from today as well 👍
Hi all
Hi Tracey 👋
Superb as usual Kev. Sorry the stream had to be cut short. Hope you have managed to sort the issue out.
Thank you Christopher , the issue appears to have been TH-cam itself 👍
Is it crosswind takeoff? I noticed left spoilers and ailerons are slightly up and right ailerons are down at rolling. ✈ (Love from JAPAN🥰)
There was a slight crosswind for the take off 👍
How long to reach cruising altitude please?
..... hope that the tire overuse due to those abrupt turns are being taken into account to calculate the safe tire life.
Hi
your videos are amazing sir may i know which camera and model you are using?
17 seconds ground roll, 3.960ft ground run.
WOW , that is phenomenal Andy 👍
The runway doesn’t look flat
Runways don't have to be flat. In fact most aren't flat.
Think she went on to raf fairford
Yes then over to America 👍
I have to say, the 74 without the stretched upper deck looks a bit passei. Imo.
must have been light as that was a short take off...
Yes DB-sh4gh , it was empty , up and away on a short hop to Fairford 👍
This aircraft landed at RAF Fairford to transport cargo from the B1 Bomber deployment back to the states
Thank you Marley , she certainly gets around 👍
Are there no windows
It's a Cargo aircraft , so no windows needed 👍
@@AirportAction I wasn't 100% sure.thank you.
@@doreen9595 You are welcome Doreen 👍
how can a massive plane get up so fast,
Astonishing fishypie , an empty Queen is stunning to watch take off 👍
If you look closely at 8:28 the crew inadvertently put the gear lever down.
I can’t fly a 747 ✈️ 9:19 opinionated, judgmental🛩️
Off to Fairford
Short flight , then i believe off to America 👍
completely empty??
Hi Brett , yes the National was off to Fairford to pickup cargo to take to the USA 👍
Appears that they cannot build a level runway?
Wow, if I ever fly in one of those I hope I get a window seat. Only six on the damn thing 😂
This is a joke before you all start lynching me
🤣🤣Can i take another window seat with you Richie 👍
@@AirportAction 100% 😂
I’ve said this on a lot of fb groups, why get so excited about seeing A380s over and over again, they’re not sleek beautifully designed aircraft, these are what big jets are all about, you can’t replace a Queen of the Skies with a poor substitute and call it King of the Skies? 🤷♂️✈️📷
You have an A380 as your profile photo though? 😂 I'm just joking with you 😂 ❤ but I do however have to agree to disagree, the A380 is a stunning piece of machinery in its own right. 747s are becoming vintage and rare and show us how it's done, but they are old and expensive to run, whereas a380s are showcasing the way in which technology has come on leaps and bounds and shows us that air travel can still be a sustainable way to travel. They're both beautiful in their own ways and that's why they're called what they are by aviation enthusiasts 😊 (sorry if that made no sense 😂)
@@sarahpurpleface thx for your opinion Sarah, I see your point about about its current status in the world of aviation but for me as a photographer it’s not aesthetically pleasing in comparison to most aircraft, especially not the 747? and your right I do have the Singapore A380 as my profile photo, it’s about the livery more than anything else, at the time, before COVID, it passed over mine every morning so I took a lot of photos, I do have a 747 in that livery but it doesn’t fit the space so well lol! 👍📸✈️
@@Terrytheartist There is definitely something about it when it banks and you see it in its full glory like the National did today ❤️ I agree about the Singapore livery, I think it looks great on the A350 too ✈️
@@sarahpurpleface yeh the Singapore A350 is one of the lookers out there! my favourite is Philippine Airlines A350 and you can’t rule out Virgin Airlines as well 👍✈️📸
@@Terrytheartist agreed! I used to like the old American Airlines livery when it was silver, so retro!
S 900 bummm jesss