The Ambassador mentioned in #23 in 1949 took off in front of the crowd,using but a fraction of Farnborough's long runway. WAT limits may not have made things difficult.
Blackbushe was near and available. It was used on the days for Guests,(like my employer ) rather than get in the way of the SBAC show. IIRC, after landing the Ambassador did a short single engine reverse taxy.
Little performance information other than " The Limitations" would be made available to me as a F/O or as a Captain until 1962 when the airline which I joined had bought a Photocopier before their first aircraft !
Last edited by Linktrained; 27th Mar 2017 at 00:06.