737 Jumpseat Takeoff & St. Elmo’s Fire !!!

What a rare sight of these static discharges.. simply stunning! Taking off from Geneva, too early in the morning. After many of you commented, the airspeed was not 142kts. It was somewhere far over 200. ATHR was only armed, so the 142 in the MCP is irrelevant. The pilots just did not set it higher until they activated autoflight. “St. Elmo’s fire (also St. Elmo’s light) is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a coronal discharge from a sharp or pointed object in a strong electric fi