Taking-off from ViennaAfter enduring a 4 hour delay in Vienna due to a snow storm, we finally boarded our Fokker-70 plane for Hannover, Germany.
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This is the view from the plane. Notice the ice particles on the window.
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Taxing to the runway it was snow, snow, snow everywhere
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As there was a delay in take off due to one of the runways being closed we had to endure a 20 minute de-icing procedure.
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The de-icing machine sprays some kind of liquid onto the wings to ensure proper and uniform de-icing.
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Another shot of the de-icing spray.
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Shot of ice melting after the de-icing shower spray. Notice in the background a 737 being de-iced
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Perfect clear blue sky after take off...but it was still bloody damn cold in the plane, more about the cold and Cebit Hannover later. I am still groggy from the jetlag.
2 comments:
Hi from Tokyo!
Last day out on the road.
Anyway, did you notice a strange smell? I had to endure the same process once and it smelled nasty! The captain of the plane actually made an announcement saying that the strange smell is the from the de-icing fluid and nothing to be alarmed.
But it sure was stinky!
Yup!! I noticed it, kampung people like me thought it was probably due to my body odour as I had not had a shower for more than 14 hours. My co-worker thought he stepped on something!
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