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Old 27th November 2009 | 14:55
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wobble2plank
 
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I wonder what the engine wear would be after just starting up the engines and immediately applying take off thrust! I would wager that putting full thrust on a cold engine would cause more wear cost than that of burning a ton or two of fuel!

You would need at least 5 minutes 'warm up', also most of the start up snags would then be 'discovered' just prior to take off whilst blocking the line up taxi way!

Quite a difficult task to get the engineers all the way out there.

Great idea, a few hurdles to overcome yet though.
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