My comment:
It's like reading something from Surreal Land.
was pertaining to the link above (in post 113). Not to the thread in general.
I know it's an aside, but having come from an era of 8 seconds to 80% thrust, I'm left with imagining a Hanna Barbera manipulation of gravity to allow the aircraft to sit at 10degrees nose up, waiting for clean wings and enough power to go around.
"Accept a second bounce." Okay, if it bounced in the first instance, then I guess it's
likely to have significant airspeed. But that won't always be the case.