Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
If we rotate and the airplane doesn't come off the ground, do we keep pulling back, now?
Doesn't matter if a lower Vr was calculated; we still don't exceed the rotation attitude, and if we don't exceed that, there's no tail strike.
Well if you rotate to max allowed pitch and nothing happens, you have to try *something* different, right?
Choices...
1) Hold max pitch that's safe for the skid plate and go off the end at takeoff thrust.
2) Reject above V1 and well after Vr, and go off the end with brakes and reverse applied.
3) Try more pitch, possibly endangering the tail skid. Pitch always = AoA on the runway, and AoA => lift.
In the case of the AS planes, they would have flown eventually at normal pitch once the speed increased but of course the pilots didn't know that at the time.