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Old 16th Sep 2012, 13:33
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Idle Thrust
 
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My mob was very slow to buy the B-727 so for a number of years we flew the DC-9-32 on legs much longer than it was really designed for. In order to get the required fuel and payload into the sky we bought zero flap T/O data from Douglas and used it quite often on certain segments. Slats were of course extended.

This used to produce some interesting R/T at U.S. airports:
"Uh, Air Canada, this is XXX behind you - you know that you have no flap out?"
"Affirmative"
"Y'all going flying that way?"
"Affirmative"
"Ummmm...."

On a hot summer day those little nosewheels sounded awfully close to their critical speed underneath the floor!
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