Castle Don. had both. Music!
A "Guardsvan" doing a full power ground run on the compass base for four hours could, however, get a little "wearing".
Thread drift. Sorry. Maybe time for a Merchantment/Vanguard thread.
So, I'm surmising that on a "power to weight" basis, the early generation of transcontinental aircraft were no worse than the first generation of widebodies when departing "well heavy". I picked up suggestions that they were worse.
I did hear from somewhere that some Pan Am 747s had problems making the SIDs.
(Hah! And after all this, a "Nigel" told me that early 340s could cause embarrassment)
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