Warbird Information Exchange

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If-Puo94pWk

Republic F-105 has finally been removed from the renown title of planes which take forever to rotate off a runway... and they have been replaced by Ilusyin IL-76 Candid

was close want it

"You're gonna have to go faster 'n that cap'n!"

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I've seen a fully loaded RAAF Mirage 111 use more runway than that out of Darwin in the '70's when I was an air traffic controller there. Darwin runway is longer than Canberra. So I I wouldn't make the claim for the Il-76....

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One of the longest take-offs I ever witnessed was a Pan Am 707-321 on a flight from Seattle to London non-stop in the early 1960's. I thought it was never going to lift off. It never did actually rotate, but just gently rose up almost at the end of the runway and climbed slowly out. Luckily the clear zone at SeaTac was pretty long at that time.

Heavily loaded B-52's also eat up the runway, as I saw a number of them just get off from McCoy AFB in Orlando, with its 12,000 ft runways.

Walt

Well, aside from the fact that it was posted on every website about 3 weeks ago - and it isn't a warbird . . .
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=19861
Thanks for posting, You're the greatest. I nominate you for MVP in perpetuity.

SKYBOLT

you have no idea do you about warbirds.. go read up and then come back

thank you for proving my point, time-waster, err, saberdriver.

thank you for proving my point, time-waster, err, saberdriver.