Originally Posted by 727C47
Flying the 7 twice7,at weights under 150K,on cold winter nights, it is a total blast to see the IVSI maxed out at 6000fpm. The flip side of the coin is a runway limited ,max weight take-off out of Vegas in high summer, when she sags upwards more than climbs out,and you use a good 12,000 feet of a 14,000+ foot runway generating enough lift to rotate.
I thought that also until ,i`m sitting in a LR60 about to T/O off of 4R Nice France going northbound 2 Geneva, the sid is a sweeping right turn over the med then north over the French/Swiss alps, i kid u not by the time the right turn was complete and we are back over the field we are outa 14,000
THAT is a rocketship.