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Old 21st Jul 2007, 00:40
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Old Smokey
 
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I suspect that the reference is to Vmu - Minimum Unstick speed. Done as part of normal certification flight testing to ascertain the minimum speed at which the aircraft can be forced to 'break ground'. It's a part of the [rocess of deriving Vr.

Some pretty impressive testing videos from Boeing's flight tests if you can get them, the aircraft with a lump of wood attached to the rear under-fuselage for the inevitable (deliberate?) tail strike, the wood being in abundant supply from the forest just across the road from Boeing.

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