Rotation and Liftoff!

(Thursday, Oct.1, 200 feet above Heathrow). About 15 minutes behind schedule a BMI jet passed behind us and the Heathrow ground controller with a Scottish accent ok'd a "long push" back from our "stand" (gate)
so we could make room for another "Company" (United Airlines) plane which had just landed to take our place.
At 11:23 am the Captain turned our Boeing 777 onto runway 27 Left and pushed the throttles on the plane's big twin engines fully forward. A minute later the jet's nose rotated skyward, the rubber no longer met the road, and UAL flight 955 was on its way up to cruising altitude and 10 hours plus of flying time to San Francisco.

(Sent from my (Sent from my iPhone after landing at SFO).