Originally Posted by
GeeRam
Maybe only one reheat engaged when hitting the burners (not uncommon) and someone thought that meant that only one engine was running.........??
Thus cancelling out the hypothetical “50ft and supersonic” ... ??? Those last 2 parameters (certainly the second) seem incredible. The latter would have caused so much damage that a CM would have been inevitable. The former? Well, it was different in those days, but even so!