Originally Posted by
CPRich
... We spooled up and traveled about 100 feet once, then slowed and got back in line.
Originally Posted by
DocP
Two aborted takeoffs just short of V1 - same plane, same day. ... Pilot ... announced "something bad indicated"... Second attempted takeoff aborted with same problem ...
had exactly the same thing happen 2x, maybe 10 min apart: departing ORD on UA's first 777, about a week after it entered service in June 1995 ... after the second one we went back to the gate; maintenance came out to the jet and reset a fault indicator on a box in the avionics bay, and we proceeded on to DEN
the most memorable go-around was an Allegheny Convair 580 at ITH in Mar 1974: the tower wasn't staffed on Sun morning, so ELM Approach (about 30 miles away) cleared us for a visual approach ... as we rolled out of a descending right turn onto final, the captain pushed the throttles forward, raised the nose and flaps, and basically completed a 360-degree turn at pattern altitude ... as we came back around I saw a Cessna 150 turning from the runway onto a taxiway; turned out the pilot was one of my ROTC classmates
I can't count (more accurately, can't begin to recall) how many RTO and go-around test conditions I experienced as either an analysis engineer or Test Director during my three years at Boeing Flight Test; again, though, there's one GA that stands out in my mind, from a 767-200 certification test flight at Moses Lake WA (MWH) in Jul 1982 -- the test condition starts at an altitude of 50 feet with throttle push, followed by a simulated engine failure at full power, which of course induces a not-insignificant roll; as TD, I was in the first observer's seat directly behind the pilot, and for a brief instant my view out the 3L window was almost entirely of the ground