Qatar Amiri Boeing 747-8 BBJ Takeoff at Fort Lauderdale | A7-HBJ | Plane Spotting

After resting for over a month in FLL. The largest Business Jet in the world left on a repositioning flight to Puerto Rico to pick up the Royal Family.
The trip that I had to take to FLL was a very last minute decision so it is ridiculous to me how the timing worked out just enough to catch this heavy. I was lucky to see her before on home soil in The Bahamas a few years ago. Unfortunately she came and left at night so Ive only seen her "sleeping".
I try not to plane spot in isolation so I added a few more movements moments from that morning as well. I felt like my timing worked out for a lot of things that morning. Another example seeing a fire drill in action.
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Camera: Sony RX10M3 (No tripod , only Hand held, Post-Stabilized)
External Mic: Comica CVM VM10II
Airport: Ft. Lauderdale Hollywood Intl Airport, Florida, USA
ICAO: KFLL
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Planespotting
Compilation
Nassau Spotters
Al Mirqab
0:16 KFLL Plane Spotting at RWY10L
6:30 BCAD Boeing 727 Fire Drill
6:57 RWY10R for view of the 747
7:32 Moved to the Hibiscus Garage for the 747 Takeoff
#Boeing7478BBJ

[@Dweller415]

747-8 might just be the most elegant bird in the sky.

[@philipeugenio2233]

Agree. The wings.

[@hit9inthehead]

By far, the most gorgeous 747 I've ever seen. Wow.

[@tomtalker2000]

What a GORGEOUS 747-8 business jet. Can you say "flying mansion" folks.

[@Make-Asylums-Great-Again]

Flying mansion, I said it I said it!

[@ChrisZoomER]

You read my mind and stole what I was going to comment.

[@f.r.vanderhaven1793]

The ultimate BBJ in the Boeing line up.

[@mbjxperience]

That 727 at 6:36 stole my heart!!!! Absolutely fantastic profile of the Amiri B748. Totally enjoyed the entire video.

[@elsahelgason6609]

Thank you so much for all of your helps that I do really thanks and appreciate ❤❤

[@HELSINKIspotting]

Nice 👌 We are expecting him today in Helsinki

[@lesparker7949]

Let’s never say goodbye to the beautiful and mighty king of the skies. The Boeing 747 is the most beautiful aircraft ever built!

[@tmac2312]

No it’s the A380

[@touchofgrey5372]

@@tmac2312 Yuck!

[@tmac2312]

How dare you say that

[@touchofgrey5372]

@@tmac2312 Yuck!

[@tmac2312]

Ok just shut up A380 hater nobody likes A380 haters!!

[@robertlennon9531]

What a beautiful jet, hat's off to Boeing

[@bonjoursaigon]

Beautiful queen of the sky! It never ever can be replaced.

[@joe-vl3nd]

Great plane i worked on them for many years Atlas son air 747 400 Happy days

[@dhanrajmohan701]

Public comments. Nice 👍 amazing thanks for sharing your wonderful video with us.stay safe

[@beneluxairplanes]

the 747 is my favorite plane ! this is the best looking 747 i ever seen ! great video

[@cameronmd80]

Thanks a lot!

[@videoluvr2]

The B 747 is such a beautiful craft. I had hoped to one day be able fly aboard this bird!

[@stefantreff4706]

ONLY TO LET YOU KNOW THIS IS A CONVERTED 747-8 With 89 Passengers and 18 crew or so.Inside its a lot of gold.

[@MarkBrandonAviation]

This video is excellent! Very lucky to have seen that 747 depart

[@JaviChannelTV]

Awesome video, I saw this takeoff in person and what a beauty she was! Super quiet on the climb-out too, gotta love those new GE engines!

[@penelopelgoss2520]

Yes, I was amazed by how quiet and clean the engines are. I've seen so many 747 land an take off at LAX. When the A-380 came in the crowds were soooo excited. What a wonderful welcome we all gave her to come to Los Angeles! Unfortunately, her life and been put into seeming permanent hold. I don't know if these aircraft will recover from the Pandemic. With the new Boeing aircraft, the A-380s may be at their life's end. You probably know the last was delivered a few days or so ago after leaving Jean-Luc Lagardere plant, a purpose-built Airbus facility at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in southern France on March 17, 2021.

[@yankeeswin4266]

A321neo is one of my favorites

[@petervharris]

Sorry 787,380,350 - but that 747-8 BBJ is a jet with class. What a shame it is no longer available for us peasants to fly in. And a much more sophisticated paint job than what I have seen The Donald chose for the PotUS jet.

[@karlosantiago5902]

she is so beutiful!

[@DOMINICAAVIATION]

What a beauty! Incredible capture!

[@marksmith4582]

Wow Cameron! First..welcome back to the Sunshine State! Even though I am from the midwestern State of Iowa, my Maternal Grandparents lived up the coast in Daytona Beach for over 41 years. I have many fond memories of visiting Florida and Daytona Beach as well as Disneyland when I was a teenager. You caught a beautiful sight with that 747BBJ! Come back for a visit anytime you are able to! Always with full respect for you and your channel Cameron! Mark in Iowa USA.

[@cameronmd80]

Thank you do much for the kind words and support man! 👍

[@mpoyart]

Where is this airport?The Paradise for the planespotters.

[@AMStationEngineer]

The communications array on that 74/8 is as "full boat" as they get!! Great video, BTW!

[@carljhonson4088]

excellent video I always find the takeoff or landing of an aircraft spectacular, especially the Boeing B747's

[@yoyovlogs7755]

The Queen of the Skies in her much Grand avatar.

[@aimpointcx4444]

10R with the ski ramp is my go to spot usually.

[@paulalegriab]

El 747-8 es espectacular!!! La reina de los cielos.

[@ricardosam8050]

Awesome never knew 747 queen of sky com3 to FLL wow she always a queen loving the colors

[@transitfan954]

Not the first time, the heavy metal rock group Iron Maiden flew a 744 into FLL a few years ago when they were playing at the BB&T Center in Sunrise. Lead singer Bruce Dickinson is also a pilot, he was actually the Captain on that flight. I didn't get to see it land or take off, but I did get a pic of it sitting midfield. This may have been the first 747-8 to visit FLL however.

[@theonly2576]

3:58 the front door on SW 737 is not closed normally the lock should be horizontally flush with the fuselage. Could any 737 experts explain that?

[@NicaHarlistamotovlogs]

The door is just like the 757 , you pull and turn so technically is closed .

[@matthewwindisch9449]

I noticed that as well.. Isn’t closed correctly, kinda scary...

[@fukawininetynine5999]

The aft left door looks normal. Hmmmmm.

[@flyerbob124]

I agree. The door maybe closed and damn sure won’t open when the plane is pressurized but that handle is not stowed properly.

[@tajcastaneda95]

Definitely not stowed properly

[@lifewithkel7009]

Yay ft lauderdale spotting is back 🥳👍😁

[@saint1242]

Yo. That southwest 737's door wasn't closed properly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@robertstamers5099]

The door was closed and locked. It’s just the outside handle that was not properly restowed. It happens when the door is closed in a hurry from the outside. In that position, the handle isn’t actually attached to the door mechanism.

[@vishalalrangersammy8005]

Nice capture and compilation Cameron!

[@Rajahdhani]

At 3:43 we see a WN 737 taxing (N496WN) and then taking off. As it taxies past the spotter (and exposes the external of what looks like L1), we see that the door is not locked/lock out of position. I wonder what happened.

[@Southwest_923WR]

Head cabinet attendant was not on his/her game! They sit in jump seat at L-1, so this was realy unacceptable! I can only assume it was locked prior to pressurization altitude, otherwise, it would have been national news!

[@christianperez8037]

sick dude, can’t wait to meet up with ya on your next visit to miami. 💯👊🔥

[@karlossargeant3872]

FLL Planspotting looks good in this Video I hope too do that the next time I visit.

[@rajbahadurverma6762]

Very good Video

[@steffia9669]

747 Respekt 👍💪

[@jaylaannrose2303]

That's one sleek bird❣

[@anthonyglee1710]

Beauty! That forward door on the Southwest 737 seems uncranked? I’ve never seen that on a moving 737.

[@Southwest_923WR]

Seeing as this video is so old, it just came to my feed, but you are absolutely correct! I work for SW, and THAT immediately caught my eye! Considering it didn't cause a major incident, I assume the cabin attendant sitting in jump seat at L-1 HAD to see it in time! I was wondering if I was only one saw that! That is something you NEVER want to see on ANY airline interviewing the active runway for takeoff! Not cool at all!

[@vandaalexandredasilvadelim7817]

Parabéns pelo seu vídeo ✈✈

[@FLLAviation]

Damn she pulled up just in time to avoid the latest obstacle FLL has thrown at us. Amazing video! (slightly disappointed there was no oof tho)

[@cameronmd80]

There was one but I didn't notice it while editing (Southwest's Door) so I guess that's on OOF for me too.

[@jhonhplanespotter..6824]

Super vídeo thanks for sharing Mate 🤜 Qatar 🙂

[@cameronmd80]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Looking very nice.

[@LMays-cu2hp]

I love the 757s so much!!!

[@LMays-cu2hp]

That 77-800 looks so so good taking off....

[@BlueRockerPR]

Looks like y'all got lucky that the crew requested 10L 😂 Great video, as always!

[@cameronmd80]

The other spotters who were up there that day heard 10R on their radios and started panicking and scrambling to their cars. But even in the back of my mind, I expected them to ask for 10L. That's too much metal for 10R even if they were empty. 😁

[@transitfan954]

@@cameronmd80 Most of the time, the heavies use 10L. Like the Emirates and British Airways 772s when they flew to FLL, also the Norwegian 787 Dreamliners (I think the latter could use 10R if necessary) And "Ed Force One", the Iron Maiden 744 that I mentioned in another post, definitely used 10L. Also, there was a charter for the Buffalo Bills awhile back, a Delta 747-451 that used 28R (the other end of 10L, as FLL was in westerly flow that day)

[@RuiPlaneSpotter]

Fantastic video!

[@cameronmd80]

Glad you liked it!

[@paulmoreno6279]

Nice! Greetings from Palm Beach

[@ricksanchez9232]

Magnificent airplane!!!

[@KushalDave]

Nice catch

[@sunknight3828]

Nice spotting I might come there this weekend you should make a discord server too

[@chaspfrank]

747 off the ground in 6,000 feet. Not bad!

[@garyhuntsr71698]

What a privilege... truly marvelous!

[@skbenergy]

epic catch !!!!

[@Gr3harrier]

Great video 👌🏿

[@RUT1111]

See 4.00min blue southwest 737 front left psg door handle not in proper position/unsafe..?😳

[@klars3207]

John Kerry needs one of these.

[@kennyA33]

Wow...Great catch!

[@po1202]

This is a teaser should of been longer but overall it's a beautiful piece of spotting

[@touchofgrey5372]

Magnificent!

[@francisflood8921]

It looks like that Southwest 737 has a front door unlatched. Is this so? (3.55)

[@josephallen9610]

Southwest’s door at 3:50 wasn’t latched 😅

[@josephallen9610]

And took off....

[@teddytheyorkielowellpenner777]

Nice spotting dude great eye for detail

[@josephallen9610]

@@teddytheyorkielowellpenner777 thanks! Thought something looked a little off.

[@tim3less._tae486]

Im pretty sure this plane also visited nassau?

[@FOBob-sr1fd]

Front hatch of SW N496WN was not properly secured.

[@chromebomb]

saw one at LAX last week

[@stefantreff4706]

IT IS STILL THERE AS OF TODAY.A7-HBJ.FORMER QUATAR-AMIRI PLANE,747-8.

[@mobileflightchannel7639]

Wish they would come here

[@echmiles1306]

sad i went spotting a day after she depatured, i went for Blue print w JTP, if only i got to see that beauty at FLL!

[@cameronmd80]

Sounds like really bad timing because I think she came back to FLL 2 days later.

[@madeiraaviacaocomercial]

Nice video!

[@slappymcgillicuddy7532]

can only imagine what those ramp fees were!

[@stefantreff4706]

IT IS PARKED HERE AT LAX AND THAT IS NOT CHEAP FOR A GIANT 747-8.

[@stefantreff4706]

IF THIS PLANE IS A7-HBJ then i can tell you it is parked at LAX now for a while.It is a converted private 747-8 and there is a lot of secrecy surrounding this jet.The sister plane was gifted to the Turkish President.It could be worth 800 Million Dollar or so consider the amount of gold used in the interior.Who knows more about this 747-8 and what is doing here in Los Angeles where it takes up a lot of room.

[@Super_Natural_Power]

7:15 Here comes the entry of Queen of sky !!

[@sartajhanspal5604]

7:57 That's a beautiful shot! How is it recorded so smoothly?

[@cameronmd80]

Stable body position. Stand in a way that you anticipate where the pan will end up. Do a lot of post editing stabilization.

[@penelopelgoss2520]

@@cameronmd80 Thank you!!! You did a fantastic job in your stance and photo/video processing.

[@cameronmd80]

@@penelopelgoss2520 Very Much Appreciated

[@karlossargeant3872]

This Flight Simulation Video will be Interesting too watch for sure.

[@viperq]

That is one way to wash a jet. 6:40!

[@jjsaviationexperience7749]

I’m thinking I will be correct because the planes were taking off and coming in at runway 10L at Ft Lauderdale Airport

[@DavidMorales-cb4pe]

That's my air port :-) 5 min away

[@SouthwestAirlines335]

I’m guessing that BCAD 727 on the ramp was an ex FedEx 727?

[@cameronmd80]

Was this sarcasm?

[@joeycarr1398]

When it took off from SJU it turned NW like flying to USA. I thought it was going to keep on going East towards Europe. There's a vid in YT which caught the ldg. & TO.

[@stefantreff4706]

AS OF TODAY IT IS PARKED ON THE EL-SEGUNDO SIDE OF LAX AND I AM SURPRISED HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN ALREADY THERE BECAUSE IT IS MASSIVE AND TAKES A LOT OF ROOM.

[@delten-eleven1910]

@9:50 Like a an overgrown emerging from the tiny tikes play pin.

[@jouniairplanevideos]

Awesome

[@HH-mw4sq]

Holy carp!!! It isn't latched properly. You can compare it with the rear door. Good thing the airflow will keep it closed. Now you know why those doors open in a forward direction.

[@maddoxnantz3293]

Grate vid😀

[@maddoxnantz3293]

thanks

[@bigfish7493]

Se laKay mwen wi

[@airlinerthaisky5824]

5:18 is the ATR-72 or DHC-8?

[@cameronmd80]

Did you watch the video?🙃

[@sunknight3828]

My home airport is fll

[@owenmissick4169]

3:55 of southwest door handle isn’t properly secured

[@flyerboy-bb7qv]

I was thinking the same thing

[@uofmiamifan]

Saw that too.

[@cameronmd80]

OOF

[@WhosColin]

I'm here for the comments to make sure I saw that right too.

[@billrobertson4892]

@@WhosColin The exterior door handle on Boeing narrow bodies is separate from the interior handle and has to be pulled out to a distance to operate. In the video the handle has not been turned to locate it in the door cut-out but that will not affect the interior handle or the security of the door (which has warning lights)

[@hotenhitonokoe2848]

interesting

[@teacher555555]

at the time of this video you could say the 747 is the biggest business jet in the world but i am betting someone from the middle east either has or has ordered an A380 to be built as business or private.

[@stefantreff4706]

THERE IS ONE PRIVATE A380 BUT THIS CONVERTED 747-8 IS AT LEAST NO.2 IN PRICE,IT MIGHT BE NO.1.INSIDE THERE IS A LOT OF GOLD.RIGHT NOW SOMEONE FILTHY RICH IS PARKING HIS TOY HERE AT LAX.I JUST SAW IT TODAY,IT IS THERE FOR A WHILE.

[@teacher555555]

@@stefantreff4706 the more money you have the fewer brains you have.

[@mikewatt8706]

The A 380 is the ugly sister of the 747

[@bendover9411]

That 747 is a sexy beast💕 All we needed was an L-1011