Brussels Airport: van 21 mio vluchten per jaar naar 13 mio en nu terug stijgend naar 17 mio: fotoshop shot van 24 vliegtuigen die 'tegelijk' vertrekken
Sky Stef's Waether and Aviation Pages 04/2011
Brussels Airport is slowly recovering after the collapse of several home carriers like CityBird, Soberlair and mainly Sabena around the Millennium. At its height in 2000, the main airport of Belgium received more than 21 million pax, the years after it dropped by 7 million, but since 2005 a slow growth is taking place with last year 17 million pax.
Just like the road traffic, two flight peaks occur: between 0700-0900 local time many landings, couple of hours afterwards taking-off again and repeated between 1630-2000 local time.
What would it give when a cam with a fixed view captures the outbound flights during a couple of hours? An example is shown in this image taken on a random (but cloud free) day in March which is composition (superposition) of 24 planes taking off (some were omitted due to overlapping). No surprise wide bodies have the longest take-off run with the cargo Boeing 747 of Saudia being the heaviest.