source unknown wrote: Here's a wonderful video of an IL-76 freighter, apparently very fully loaded, taking off from a small airport in Australia, probably on a hot day earlier this year (one source says Feb, another says Jan). That's a difficult combination for any plane, anywhere, and see just how much of the runway the plane takes before it gets airborne.

I think I enjoy the commentary of the videographer and his mates in the Control Tower as much as I do the video itself. And, with that thought in mind, it is well worth watching all the way to the end. There's something very refreshing about the cheery total lack of political correctness among these air traffic controllers."