Airmale From Botswana, joined Sep 2004, 368 posts, RR: 2 Posted (10 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 874 times:
Last evening I saw a PIA 742 doing a high speed climb en route to Jeddah, its a daily service and I have seen it uncountable times in many of which the climb has been so slow and loud, like the aircraft is straining to stay airborne, rather scary. So why was this plane going really fast?
Mr.BA From Singapore, joined Sep 2000, 3423 posts, RR: 23 Reply 3, posted (10 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 842 times:
I can't think of any significant difference in speed JUST after take-off. A heavier B747 will climb faster in terms of speed and at a lower rate of climb than a lighter B747.
Leezyjet From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 4041 posts, RR: 55 Reply 4, posted (10 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 786 times:
Take off/climb speeds vary on all a/c for a number of reasons such as :-
take off weight of the aircraft, temperature, pressure, altitude of airport above sea level, weather, runway contamination, obstacles such as mountains/cranes etc, any restrictions on the a/c due to tech problems...the list goes on.
"She Rolls, 45 knots, 90, 135, nose comes up to 20 degrees, she's airborne - She flies, Concorde Flies"
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