Originally posted by wysiwyg
The amazing thing about 757 performance is that the steep climb outs that everybody gawps at are most often conducted with only 75% of the available take off thrust! This means that there is still another 10 tonnes of thrust available! When we reposition the aircraft from one base to another empty we never use full take off power as the aircraft becomes almost uncontrollable (and I’m not joking).

WOW, I knew the 757 takes off with the least ammount of thrust than most airliners, but I didn’t know it was that much!

Tis them RR’s 😉 can’t beat em.