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Old 28th June 2009 | 15:59
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Doors to Automatic
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I was fortunate enough to experience a jump seat ride in a 757 out of Aberdeen many years ago.

On the taxy out the captain told me that we would be going ful power - it was a breathtaking take-off. We were in the air after a ground run of less than 600m (less than 1/3 of ABZ's short runway!) and then climbed up at 6000ft per minute.

We got up to FL410 for the short flight to Heathrow!

It is an amazing piece of kit.
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