This is a movie that was taken of Kevin Mackenzie departing in his P337 from Goldendale, WA in 2002. The camera is right next to the runway, so the shot is fairly dramatic.

This was a HUGE file, 148MB, but thanks to Don Hickman it has been compressed into a 23MB mpeg, or a 7MB mpeg (smaller frame). It is not streaming video, you must download it first, then play it.

This file is being offered as an experiment. If you have similar files that you would like to have on the site, please send them to us on a CD to Kevin Mackenzie, 39860 SW Snowcrest Dr., Cornelius, OR 97113.

Here are a few stills from the movie. The links to download it are below.

(Original photography by Carlo Tiana)

IMPORTANT: Because this movie is so large, the larger file is named "takeoff.bin" and the smaller file is named "takeoffsmall.bin". To view either, you will need to change the name to "takeoff.mpeg" or "takeoffsmall.mpeg" after you download it. Why are we doing it this way? If you click on a .mpeg file, it tries to immediately download it to your temp directory and play it with Windows media player. These files are too big for that sort of treatment.

ALSO IMPORTANT: For reasons that elude me (as many things do), some users report that these files are detected by their video players, and downloaded to temporary files and then played, even with the .bin name. If it does this for you, and you wish to save the file for repeated viewing, search your temporary files for the file, and move it to whereever you want to save it. As always, should you or any of your IMF force be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions. Good luck Jim! Psssssttt....

Videos may not be available, we hope temporarily. If you cannot access the video, please check back next week (2/24/04).

Click here to download the 23MB movie

Click here to download the 7MB version

Thanks again to Bob Cook for the bandwidth and Don Hickman for doing the compression work.