A Mighty Snowy Day...

[ReverseThrust]

'Twas a cold, snowy day in Denver, but the schedule must go on!

This day was the first of several days of snows, and the airport eventually closed, but not before the mighty 777 could go!

Pushback...

Beginning to taxi...

Passing the Tower and about to turn and line up

[center]All lined up on 17R.

[ReverseThrust]

Rotate!

Up we go, out of this blizzard!

Above the clouds and away to warmth!

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Denver is my home airport and we do close sometimes in the winter.

[Threadkiller]

lovely pix!! really liked them

btw, i was just thinking... wouldnt it be nice to have actual accumulation when it snows on the sim?

[Daz]

yeah and the aicraft leave treads in the snow where it has taxi through it.

[SaVas]

Nice pics! I prefer the smaller Boeing craft myself, however I like anything that has snow in the picture

[tvale80]

great pics

[Cherokee_6]

Nice....Very Nice....

[ATI_7500]

must have been fu***** cold there.

nice pics 'tho.

[GeForce]

Lovely pics - I do like the 777.

[Craig.]

tis my favorate of all the 777's. however are you sure about that 85,000lbs of thrust? from what i have heard all of uniteds 777's have over 100,000lbs each.
very nice pics also

[RIC_BARKER]

tis my favorate of all the 777's. however are you sure about that 85,000lbs of thrust? from what i have heard all of uniteds 777's have over 100,000lbs each.
very nice pics also

Yeah, I think he meant 85,000lbs of thrust per engine

[Craig.]

so did i
the highest rated thrust is over 120,000lbs per engine. i cant remember who makes that one,  might be General Electric.

[ReverseThrust]

Thanks for the replies and comments guys!

About the 85,000 lbs of thrust, I guesstimated.  
This I know, though:
GE is the maker of the world's most powerful jet engine, the GE-90-115B.  http://www.geae.com/ It puts our 115,300 lbs of thrust per engine at sea level.  WOW!  It is the engine on the 777-300ER.  

United's 777s have Pratt & Whitneys on them, that I know for sure.  

I just did some reaserch for this reply and found out this:
-The PW 4070/4080 series is an option for 777 engines (RR, PW, and GE all make 777 powerplants)
-The PW 4080 can put out up to 86,760 lbs of thrust per engine.    I was close!  

That's all from here:
http://www.pratt-whitney.com/prod_comm_pw4000_112.asp

Glad you liked by wintery post!

[Polynomial]

very nice!

[Mike Thurman]

Lovely picture. I always loved a snow day!