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Old 13th Feb 2019, 07:16
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But not nearly as spectacular as a B767/238-338 on full charge out of the same place, at the usual light weights, only going to the "big island".
A little thread drift here, but any lightly loaded twin doing a max rated TO is going to be spectacular. I did a bunch of engine change certification flight tests on the 767. Usually really light and always a max rated TO (part of the cert condition was max rated TO). As a DER/AR observer, I wanted to be in the flight deck as soon as practical after TO so I could 'observe' (EICAS was my friend ). Getting to the flight deck was like climbing a mountain .
The one flight I'll always remember - 767-200, CF6-80C2B6 (60k) rating, a little over 100 ton TOW. We were on condition, 35k/Mach 0.82 10 minutes after brake release
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