Originally Posted by
Flightrider
That said, and for the sake of balance, some of the British Island Airways One-Eleven 500 departures weren't an awful lot better back in those days.
I remember driving past the end of runway 25 at Newcastle one Saturday night, probably in the 90's, when a Sabre 727 made an extremely low pass over the road. I didn't see it rotate but it looked like it must have been very very late getting up.