I remember sitting on the tailgate of a pickup truck or the trunk of some friends car many times from the east/west frontage road on the north side of runways 36L and 36R at McCoy AFB (now MCO, Orlando International) watching the B-52s taking off and landing for their flights to and from Vietnam. Occasionally we'd catch the U-2's coming back from their southern flights....since my Dad was a U-2 crew chief I always had a heads up on when I *may* catch them landing or taking off.
Some years later after the Air Force was long gone we watched many a commercial flight from the same location and even a few years later I never will forget the first time I ever flew in there from the pilot's seat thinking about how many times I've been on that road *down there* wondering how it must look from 'up there'.
Neat video clips guys, I've seen the short-field 747 takeoff before but never the maneuvering 747 ... thanks for sharing!
