Originally Posted by
lomapaseo
Don't they do test flights with an engine out on takeoff?
I'm not rightly sure they start the takeoff roll with an engine shutdown in a Boeing.
Hank Beaird did demo this questionable maneuver in 1964 with a fed onboard however. It was in N801L, the first of two Learjet prototypes. Unfortunately, they had left the spoilers up after the previous landing and balled the plane up in a field off the end of the runway at ICT. Hank and the fed were unhurt but Lear had to exhibit the second prototype at the upcoming Reading, PA airshow without a finished interior.