Remarks: Rotating on RWY22R after some heavy rainfall and hail!! There's a first time for everything, and this was my first time getting hail for an airplane...
Remarks: Face to face with an MD-11. The captain checking the runway out before lining-up on RWY22R for departure. Note the alignement of engines no1 & no3, both pointing ever-so-slightly towards a point in front of the nose, instead of the normally thought of parallel lines withfuselage...