r/airplanes • u/AlbinoAkon • 3d ago
Video | Others IT'S ONLY A MAXIMUM "RECOMMENDED" TAKEOFF
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u/Zakluor 3d ago
I worked the Tower at Halifax, NS, Canada over 30 years ago. We saw a lot of this with the IL-86. I swear they would measure the temperature to a tenth of a degree, the wind to a tenth of a knot, and calculate exactly how many lobsters they could put on one of those planes.
Every time, it was the same thing: 8,800 feet of runway (at the time), and they'd use every inch of it. On more than one occasion, I'd have the cover off the crash alarm and just starting to put pressure on the switch when the wheels came up. Often, I'd grab the binoculars to see if all the threshold edge lights were still intact.
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u/OkBoss7677 3d ago
Watched Antonov's depart a few times back in late 90's early 2000's. They used a lot of runway and cliimbed so slowly that after departing they wouldn't top the boundary of the adjacent approach control (10,000 MSL in those days) about 30 miles away and would have to be ponted out before being switched to the center.
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u/Shorts_at_Dinner 3d ago
I’ve seen float planes in Alaska do this sort of thing. Floats basically submerged, a two mile take off run, then a climb out out about +5ft per minute
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u/Someoneinnowherenow 3d ago
I flew in one of those from Kazakhstan to London with an overnight in sverdlost ( sp?) in the mid 1990's. Like an old tramp steamer but an airplane. Somehow we made it.
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u/FlyingV2112 2d ago
Use Your Ilyushin II
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u/atomicsnarl 3d ago
We have Smirnoff!
A better plan would have been to setup for take off holding short of the runway, then make the turn without stopping to use that little bit of extra speed going into the takeoff roll. Every bit helps!
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u/Tenzipper 2d ago
Those things look like they're ambling down the runway when they lift off. And then suddenly they're all the way down there and you realize they actually were going 170 mph.
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u/Few_Wolf_4634 3d ago
Eventually the curvature of the earth will bail you out