HansMast.com » chiang_mai http://hansmast.com Pictures of the world, religious commentary, political thoughts, technology Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:20:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Hi-def Video: A380 Lands in Chiang Mai http://hansmast.com/2007/09/hi-def-video-a380-lands-in-chiang-mai/ http://hansmast.com/2007/09/hi-def-video-a380-lands-in-chiang-mai/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:24:15 +0000 Hans Mast http://hansmast.com/?p=583 We were privileged (mainly due to Thai Airways’ order for a couple of A380s) to be recipients of a visit by the new Airbus A380, the world’s largest airliner. It landed at Chiang Mai airport in part to demonstrate that the A380 can land at secondary airports without difficulty.

We went out to a footbridge over Hang Dong road near the airport to watch it land. We waited in the hot sun for a long time while the schedule kept getting pushed back. The A380 had scraped its wing on a hangar door in Bangkok and finally they simply removed the vertical winglet on the wings.

Without further ado, here’s the hi-def video (taken with my Canon TX-1) of the plane landing:

2:44
Hi-def: MPEG-2, 1280×720, 376 MB
Hi-def: WMV, 1280×720, 9.5 Mbps, 153 MB
Hi-def: WMV, 1280×720, 3.6 Mbps, 58 MB (While I’m sure a videophile could, I can’t tell the quality difference between these first three)
Lo-Def: MPEG-4, 320×240, 1 Mbps, 22 MB (not recommended)
YouTube

Play the WMV files in something other than Windows Media Player. For some reason WMP squishes it down to 4:3 instead of properly displaying it at 16:9. (I recommend Media Player Classic.)

Here are some pics that my good friend Darren took with his Canon 10D:

Airbus A380 approaching Chiang Mai International Airport
Airbus A380 approaching Chiang Mai International Airport

Airbus A380 landing at Chiang Mai International Airport
Airbus A380 landing at Chiang Mai International Airport

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The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky displays what his hands have made.
Psalms 19:1 (GW)











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Chiang Mai Sunset from the IGO roof


Chiang Mai Sunset a few minutes later

Different qualities (First sunset):
Medium resolution, high quality (3000×573, 398 KB)
High resolution, low quality (11,534×2204, 895 KB)
High resolution, high quality (11,534×2204, 14.4 MB)

Different qualities (Later sunset):
Medium resolution, high quality (3000×614, 421 KB)
High resolution, low quality (11,028×2256, 917 KB)
High resolution, high quality (11,028×2256, 5.69 MB)

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