'Water Wagon' Takeoff :P

[XxRazgrizxX]

Uncompressed

C&C Welcome

[Club508]

Nice Shot!

Is that smoke supposed to be there? :-?

[CHUCK79]

Cool shot Razgriz8-) 8-)

@Club508........this aircraft first flew in the late 50s, the engines weren't as efficient as today's jet engines are

[Jayhawk Jake]

Cool shot Razgriz8-) 8-)

@Club508........this aircraft first flew in the late 50s, the engines weren't as efficient as today's jet engines are

You are sort of there...aircraft back then needed an extra boost on takeoff to get their highest payloads in the air so they injected water into the engine...makes a lot of black smoke and is generally bad for the environment, so it was outlawed.

[XxRazgrizxX]

Is that smoke supposed to be there? :-?

As chuck and Jake said, back in the 50s the technology wasn't as good, and one thing that used to be was with the older jet engines, water was injected straight into the engine to cool the engine (hence the nickname 'water

[garryrussell]

Take offs were very smokey even when  Water Methanol wasn't used.

[pfevrier]

Beautiful!

[Club508]

Wow, even back then we were being horrible to the enviornment.

[todayshorse]

excellent! Didnt they say that the only thing that gets the 707 into the air is the curvature of the earth?

[yancovitch]

[XxRazgrizxX]

Yup 

[Club508]

I'm not so sure, becuase with enough thrust, even pigs can fly!