Watch 5 Hours of Airplane Takeoffs in 30 Seconds

The more interesting video was the crosswind landing one at the bottom of the page. Really incredible!

Microsoft Research had a neat system that could automatically create these sort of time-compressed videos without overlapping interesting areas. The suggested use case was reviewing surveillance videos. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the demo they had.

The rudder deflection on the cross-wind one is the most interesting. The landings is just a lot of ILS approaches so not much variance, although you can see the auto-pilot compensation on the LHR approaches, which is kind of cool.<p>Cross wind landings are fun once you get used to looking at the runway from the side window and getting tossed around in a Cessna like a kite.

That photo is a photoshop; some planes wouldn't be able to take off at those angles.

Awesome video. The little plane slowly following the mass of huge, fast planes makes me giggle.

just read it in the news some minutes ago: <a href="http://avherald.com/h?article=459fa8f6" rel="nofollow">http://avherald.com/h?article=459fa8f6</a>