Boeing 747-47UF/SCD - Atlas Air | Aviation Photo #1019441

Anonymous

17 years ago

Excellent vortexs

Anonymous

17 years ago

Wow, look at those vortices.

Anonymous

17 years ago

I really loved the smoke and how you can see it turn as the plane displaces the airflow. Amazing picture!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Great shot capturing the motion within the photograph

Anonymous

17 years ago

Nice close-up shot. It really shows the difference in height between the tail section and the nose. Guess they really used their landing fee on this one.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Oh my...
that's crazy

Anonymous

17 years ago

What a great photo !

Anonymous

17 years ago

Wow, now that's what I call a smokey toucdown!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Simply an amazing shot!!!

Anonymous

17 years ago

I like how the tyre smoke looks like wake vortex. An amazing picture, I love such hard landings!

Anonymous

17 years ago

The most beautiful landing photo i have ever seen ... amazing ;-)))))

Anonymous

17 years ago

It looks like a space shuttle that lands, because of the circles of the smoke when it touches down!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Runway check needed by airport ops maybe after such a heavy landing and a couple of new radials

Anonymous

17 years ago

Did the captain say "Sorry for the vortex?"
GREAT SHOT!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Fantastic shot!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Biggest landing vortex i´ve ever seen after a hard landing. Maybe ATC said WOW after touchdown. T.B.

Anonymous

17 years ago

I'm not doing good landing these days. I didnt know that you get this kind smoke after a hard landing! so from now on, I will do my best to make it as smooth as possible.

Anonymous

17 years ago

BRILLIANT SHOT!!!!
Ladies and Gentlemen if you care to look out the window you will see we have swirling vortex just outside!!!!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Very nice pic but could improve the landing.

Anonymous

17 years ago

WOW,

Anonymous

17 years ago

What a picture, WOWWWWWWWWW.
But sometimes I wonder how the pressure of the flaps. Just look at it, it's almost touch the ground.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Nice shot Seth. No runway inspection required unless aircraft damaged or missing rubber when inspected by engineers on the bay.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Wonderful , wake turbulence votices

Anonymous

17 years ago

This is call the wake turbulence! I loving it.

Anonymous

17 years ago

I have already seen this event thousand times, but this one is one of the most impression photos that I have seen before. I had posted this photo to my desk wallpaper.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Must have been a messy approach, with a marginal touchdown, but with a tough airplane, you can hardly hurt it too bad.
Great picture.

Anonymous

17 years ago

I can smell the rubber from here hehe...great picture indeed!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Good stuff!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Awesome steam kickup!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Amazing

Anonymous

17 years ago

This photo shows not only motion of the aircraft, but its size and power to generate massive wake turbulence. It encorporates everything that we love about heavies.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Looks like they landed on a geyser or something hehe ! Very nice picture :-)

Anonymous

17 years ago

A fantastic rear shot. The landing may have been hard, but consider the fact that the Boeing 747 is a very forgiving aircraft. No matter what, she looks gorgeous from any angle. All the more reason that Boeing makes the best.

S Meiyappan
Ft Worth Tx

Anonymous

17 years ago

It's all in the timing & staying focused when the situation presents itself. A little rough on the aircraft I would imagine!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Great angle, all together a great shot, I like it!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Awesome

Anonymous

17 years ago

At least the Captain didn't have passengers and flight attendents to apologise to! Absolutely stunning shot, and right at the top of my 'wish I'd taken that' list.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Awesome shot! great to see the wake turbulence and such an impressive A/C

Anonymous

17 years ago

No apologies mate, thanks for that landing...

Anonymous

17 years ago

Great shot! right time to see the effect while lending

Anonymous

17 years ago

Execptional

Anonymous

17 years ago

Awesome! Fantasic clarity. I can almost feel the wake turbulence form that giant. Nicely done.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Great photo awesome landing I want to be a pilot my self and i want to fly a 744 but nice photo great timing

Anonymous

17 years ago

Cool "swirl" effect.

YEG

Anonymous

17 years ago

Superb shot! Exactly the right timing.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Incrinable !!! spectacular!!!

Anonymous

17 years ago

What a great picture of wake turbulence. Very nice!!

Anonymous

17 years ago

I think this landing is magisterial.where was the fotographer.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Cool Pic!

Anonymous

17 years ago

This is a nice picture

Anonymous

17 years ago

Wicked cool!!! Wake vortices materializing out of tire smoke -- I can hear and SMELL that touchdown from here!!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Very very good

Anonymous

17 years ago

Got to love shots of vortices. Kinda looks like the captain was on the brakes at touchdown or its peeling out and doing a wheelie.

Anonymous

17 years ago

First of all, a brilliant shot. To capture the second of touch down is a great thing.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Great shot, Seth, congrats! It's neat when you can see a detailed manifestation of the aerodynamic forces acting on these massive aircraft, with the opposite direction of rotation of the horizontal stabiliser vortices clearly visible.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Great Photo capture, glad it wasn't one of my landings!

Anonymous

17 years ago

That´s a great shot, because ist shows the power and weight of a 747 in just another way.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Ok dude. Last chance.More 100 hours of simmulator.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Was I on that flight? Nice shot!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Fantastic Very good work.

Anonymous

17 years ago

Its beautiful i think that the atc should have congratulated the captain instead for giving them such a stunning display of raw power

Anonymous

17 years ago

Great Shoot, Beautiful vortex

Anonymous

17 years ago

Amazing Clarity...Great Job.!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Gosh huge power is in game!

Anonymous

17 years ago

I dont think the pilot should have apologised because those planes are not easy to put down. great shot though

Anonymous

17 years ago

Great time and beautiful pic!

Anonymous

17 years ago

Wow. These kind of pictures really show off the huge size of this beast! :)

Anonymous

17 years ago

Fantastic shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Anonymous

17 years ago

Thought it was a fab picture jst because u can see the lil tornados still appearing in the smoke perfect shot

Anonymous

16 years ago

Its good cos u can see spray bein flicked up

Anonymous

16 years ago

That's the right place to be, nice job

Anonymous

16 years ago

I believe you have to be very lucky to be in a possition, where it is possible to get a shot like this, it is first time I see one like this, great

Anonymous

16 years ago

Cool photo! I love the smoke or dust effect

Anonymous

16 years ago

That has to be the most beautiful puff of smoke ever produced by a jet!

Anonymous

16 years ago

This photo is perfect. Angle, lighting and the affect of those powerful engines makes this a five star shot. Well Done indeed! I love the 747, and they are really big girls, I am gobsmacked at how some captains put them down so safely,they are magnificent machines! Really a perfect photo, and thanks to the captain for such a perfect affect!

Anonymous

16 years ago

This is a really hard landing! Gorgeous shot!

Anonymous

15 years ago

Excellent

Anonymous

15 years ago

Nice, love the rubber touching down and having a puff like that

Anonymous

15 years ago

Hahahaha, a plane fart.

Anonymous

15 years ago

Wow the elevators are creating wing tip vortices

Anonymous

15 years ago

What a great shot - An excellent view of the vortices can be seen in the smoke!

Anonymous

14 years ago

The great thing about being a cargo pilot and making this hard of a landing is that packages don't complain.

Anonymous

14 years ago

Good thing cargo neither pukes nor complains ;)

Anonymous

14 years ago

Tell one of the ATC staff to come and land one of these heavies and he'll know; no need to apologise. Marvellous photo with the air brakes and the flaps and the smoke....great shot Seth, keep it going.

nagi from Pakistan

Anonymous

13 years ago

Awesome display of turbulence!

Anonymous

13 years ago

WHAMMO! Great photo...love the intense detail and the ATC dialog was priceless

Anonymous

13 years ago

This is what i call a heavy bird. 5st for detail

Anonymous

13 years ago

Featured in AERO magazine's January 2007 issue as one of the top photo's of 2006 (despite the shot being taken in 2005). The (German) caption read: "Eine ausgesprochene rustikale Landung", haha... And I first thought it meant peaceful... :O
Btw The captain was like: 'Sorry for the rubber on the tarmac', or 'sorry for the gorgeous sight i gave you?' Clearly it should have been a mix at worst.

Anonymous

13 years ago

Bet you that the passengers were a bit shaken up after that landing!

Anonymous

13 years ago

It's a cargo

Anonymous

13 years ago

I hope they checked out the landing gear - and probably needed tires!

Anonymous

12 years ago

Transporting lead by air? poor tires.. very good shot!

Anonymous

12 years ago

Catergory: Abstract Art & Artist: Atlas Air B744. Bravo!

Anonymous

11 years ago

Awesome!!! Can actually see the ground effect as the smoke pattern!! :)

Anonymous

11 years ago

LUV ATLAS

Anonymous

11 years ago

Epic wake turbulance!!!

Anonymous

11 years ago

Great shot

Anonymous

11 years ago

To the visitor from Australia referring to the vortices off the tail. Those swirls are a result of the airflow off the inboard edge of the flaps. Vortices only form at edges when the upper and lower airflows mix, they don't form below the horizontal stabs. Wake turbulence is strongest and most dangerous when following departing aircraft. Anyway it's a great shot for sure!

Anonymous

10 years ago

This is a 5 star photo, not just for the smoke and drama - but for how well this unusual angle captures how "fat" this plane really is.

Anonymous

9 years ago

Great angle

Tucker1

Wisconsin, USA

5 years ago

No reason he needed to apologize. They pay for landing rights. Not a big deal for the runway anyway.

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