As a mere aside...
I did 3 years at Cottesmore on TTTE where we flew exclusively clean aircraft (not even pylons) and despite having only the 101 engines fitted which had less reheat thrust but the same dry power (I think ???) I always wondered whether we could take-off in dry power and if anyone had ever worked out the figures. It certainly felt like you could.
I do understand the banter about weedy thrust, but I did once have a genuine 590kts in dry power at low level out of a GR1, and that wasn't at the end of a dive or anything, just low level RTB from Donna Nook and forgot I'd left them at Max Dry.
