Those Hercs. used to roll and roll. I also seem to recall that the RB211s were a very tight fit..
To correct the thread drift, and by contrast, an Aer Turas CL44 out of Castle Donington, with a lone racehorse on board, rotated way before the first intersection on 28 (as it was then).
Amazing. Wind straight down the runway, but not too strong. It almost like watching a very large motor glider, with about the same nose level. What a graceful aeroplane!
Why do politics and commercial shenanigans kill off the best machines?
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