Originally posted by: marvdmartian
Originally posted by: her209
Wow... who knew they could be so agile?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDz6sEdrcfM
Pretty sure that jet is empty of passengers and cargo/baggage. Full jumbos won't perform like that, they tend to wallow through the air.
Did have a neighbor, back around a dozen years ago, that flew for Continental Micronesia, out of Guam. He had to come back to the States for ~4.5 months, so he could get type rated for the 757's, in Houston. When he came back to Guam, he told me those things were so amazing, that if a fully loaded 757 (full of passengers, baggage/cargo & fuel) were taking off, and lost one engine, they could firewall the other engine, and have enough power to continue the take off, circle around to dump fuel, and safely land.
And people wonder why I prefer Boeing/MD to Airbus! :roll: