We have Smirn Off!

Alan Kingwell has sent in this clip of a fully loaded Russian IL-76 cargo plane taking off in Australia. The payload is 1million pounds. This really raises the pucker factor . . . Listen to the "controllers" in the tower who are Australian: Ya gotta love it. "The Vodka Burner" as the Aussies call it, literally uses every inch of runway . . . Watch the video clip (shot from the control tower on the airfield) and hear the controllers conversation - they are incredulous . . . that it makes it . . . . See the clip (29.6.09)