On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Doug Franklin <jehosep...@mindspring.com> wrote: > On 2010-02-07 16:59, mike wilson wrote: > >> I've had a pilot (Aeroflot....) start his takeoff accelleration during >> the turn onto the runway. Until you've felt the tyres of an airliner >> scrubbing sideways, you haven't lived. > > I had a Delta pilot do that years ago, leaving Ft. Lauderdale. The air was > thin because it was high summer, and the plane was loaded to the gills. We > didn't move after we got to 3rd in line. The pilot counted down as the > other planes left. Then told us we were next. About fifteen seconds later > he comes on the intercom to say "Yeeeeeeee! Haaaaa!" and slammed the > throttles to (through?) the firewall. We made the 180* turn from the > taxiway to the runway at what felt like 40 knots, and we still needed every > flappin' inch of runway available. It was the most fun I've ever had on a > takeoff. :-) > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) >
There's nothing quite like taking off from a 3000 foot strip on a hot mid-afternoon in high summer at 6000 feet ASL in an aircraft significantly larger than the one you crashed in on takeoff from the same small strip 3 hours before due to running out of runway. Luckily for me, the small aircraft was a Piper Apache (chronically underpowered) and the large a DHC-5 Buffalo (which has extreme STOL performance) -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
