takeoff
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Watch A MiG-29 Take Off And Immediately Shoot Up Vertically Into The Sky
Wow, this is so cool. Here’s a MiG-29 fighter jet taking off from a runway and then immediately launching vertically into the sky. The takeoff looks completely normal and innocuous until the jet is a few feet off the ground and then it just zips up like it’s riding the world’s fastest invisible elevator.
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Watch This Boeing Dreamliner’s Stunning Vertical Take-Off Stunt
We have featured plenty of extreme airliner landings and insane manoeuvres, but not a lot of crazy take-offs. Some Redditor made a GIF from a video of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in almost-vertical-take-off, originally filmed at the 2014 Farnborough International Airshow. There’s plenty more angles: