"The elevation of that airport is 1286 ft with 4051 ft of runway available but California has had some pretty hot weather over the last week."
What!
4051' long at 1300' elevation?
In that case I don't think this prang had anything to do with "high and hot".
I would not think twice about taking the V35B out of there at MTOW on the hottest of days.
I wonder it he did an intersection departure and the aeroplane was not going as fast as it looked in the video when it lifted off. Would also be interesting to know how it was loaded.
It is possible to overload an A36 out the back of the envelope - as a woman demonstrated at YBAF many years ago. Failed to stay airborne after departing off the 4800' main runway - ended up in a creek off the western end.
Dr 