F-86:
A lot of those early-generation jet fighters were ground loving hogs on the runway. An old AF F-86 pilot, who had been based in Florida, once told me that on a hot day, he regarded an 8,000' runway as marginal. But those guys were taking off with an airplane that had guns, ammunition and drop tanks.
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"ground loving hogs "
Just ask Farrell's...;-(
Yep, here in Sacramento in '72 a Canadian ex-military Sabre's pilot held too much pitch on takeoff and ran off the runway into an ice cream shop killing 22 and injuring 28, many of them children. Of course you could ask why an ice cream shop was just beyond a busy runway. The F-84 was even more of a ground loving sled on takeoff.
Holding too much pitch on the takeoff roll is the sign of a prop pilot. Might gt away with that on a straight-wing jet like an A-10 or a Citation, dunno.
@Tod Germanica,
The late Jeff Ethel, he of many airplane POV videos, reported in his P-47 shoot that one needed to tightly manage the over-the-fence speed in the Jug, as it would easily land long. He related one wag's thought, "if you could build a runway around the world, Republic could build an airplane that used all of it."
LRod
ZJX, ORD, ZAU retired
LRod- Oscar Brand records the Republic F-84 is a "ground loving whore", so I guess Republic had more than one.
3383, an insult to whores. They are all pretty good at getting things up.
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