Worlds longest warbird take off EVER

Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:05 am

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 and they have been replaced by Ilusyin IL-76 Candid

Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:04 am

was close want it

Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:59 pm

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

Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:47 pm

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....

Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:25 pm

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

Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:51 pm

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.

Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:54 pm

SKYBOLT

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

Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:01 pm

HGUCSU wrote: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.

Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:01 pm

HGUCSU wrote: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.