Reported tail strike ex BNE
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Yes mate - I paraphrased it - but I was seriously cracking up at the time. Top post - Tailwinds.
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I don't respond well to 'Sweetie" or Shirley OK. This is a very PC age, as you know, there are rules and everything now. Cheers Jack - Mark Twain had his moments too. 
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The tail clearance on rotation when everything is going well is only a couple of feet. If the rotation is a bit quick, or a bit too soon, it messes up the design geometry and erodes the tail clearance pretty quickly.
I have a vague recollection that you get a short stick-shaker in the B763 if the tail touches as well as a message.
Boeing has quite a good tail-strike prevention video for the B757. As an aside, there is also a good video for continuing the takeoff with a flight-deck window coming open during takeoff. I still have them on my PC.
I have a vague recollection that you get a short stick-shaker in the B763 if the tail touches as well as a message.
Boeing has quite a good tail-strike prevention video for the B757. As an aside, there is also a good video for continuing the takeoff with a flight-deck window coming open during takeoff. I still have them on my PC.
The tail clearance on rotation when everything is going well is only a couple of feet. If the rotation is a bit quick, or a bit too soon, it messes up the design geometry and erodes the tail clearance pretty quickly.
Reducing the ATM derate by 3 degrees makes a RR rotation feel a lot more like a GE. So I'm told.
