By: GKirk - 29th August 2006 at 21:21
FWIW, A 757-200 is much more powerful than an A321 😉
Think I read somewhere that an empty 757-200 can climb at 8,000ft per minute
By: flybar - 29th August 2006 at 21:16
Carefull – could get about six threads out of that!!
By: David2386 - 29th August 2006 at 12:32
What colour were the seats? Were they comfortable? What seat did you sit in, were the windows clean, what was the cloud cover like in TFS? OO what flaps were used for take off, what route did the plane take?
By: LBARULES - 29th August 2006 at 12:24
Hopefuly my aircraft will have a full power take off today. From what i remember 6 years ago the Air 2000 A321 had a fairly decent take off.
That is REALLY fascinating.
By: PMN - 29th August 2006 at 11:03
Tommy, any chance you could start giving your threads proper titles please.
Dream on. 😀
Paul
By: David2386 - 29th August 2006 at 10:18
FYI I have flown RB211 757s with engines rated at 41500 lbs thrust.
Whoooaaarrrrrrr, down boy! I’d love a trip in an empty 757/767 just to see the VSI go off the scale. A friend flies GE powered 767s and says positioning flights are the most fun you can have with your clothes on, lucky ******.
By: tommyinyork - 29th August 2006 at 09:30
Hopefuly my aircraft will have a full power take off today. From what i remember 6 years ago the Air 2000 A321 had a fairly decent take off.
By: wysiwyg - 29th August 2006 at 09:22
All companies I have flown for have had a maintenance policy that each aircraft must have performed at least 1 full power take off per month. Usually the engineers don’t have to remind us to do it as we chose to do it whenever there are thunderstorms, etc around.
FYI I have flown RB211 757s with engines rated at 41500 lbs thrust.
Tommy, any chance you could start giving your threads proper titles please.
By: Deano - 28th August 2006 at 21:18
Very subjective question, where do you get them from? the RB211 powered 757 is a very over powered aircraft, and from Manchester you should almost certainly perform a derated take off, so no not max thrust
By: gary o - 28th August 2006 at 20:59
It all depends on the power to weight ratio of each aircraft,the A321’s max weight is around 83 tons & is powered by engines around the 30,000 pound of thrust mark,so that’s about 1383 pounds of thrust per ton.The 757’s max weight is 113.395 tons & has two 37,000 pound engines.So the 757 has 1540 pounds of thrust per ton,so in theory the 757 should be a bit quicker down the runway.(Figures from commercial aircaft & airliners).
By: A330-300 - 28th August 2006 at 20:39
757 has more power I’d say.
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