Curious incident :)

Pete

Paul Tomblin posted:

quote

Since when does smoke come off the tires of a plane starting its
takeoff roll? I can't think of any way that could happen.

unquote

My post was only to show that it could and did happen based on my
experience.

Big John
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:53:41 -0800, "Peter Duniho"
wrote:

"Big John" wrote in message
.. .
The F-101B had enough engine power that if you held the brakes and ran
up and plugged the burners in it rotated the tires on the rim(s) and
blew them.You could see smoke as they skidded down the R/W.

Hardly relevant to the question of what happens at the *very start* of a
takeoff roll of a transport category airplane. Even in the case of the much
higher power-to-weight ratio of the F-101B (or other fighters, for that
matter), the smoke doesn't occur immediately upon power-up.

Pete

"Big John" wrote in message
...
Paul Tomblin posted:

Since when does smoke come off the tires of a plane starting its
takeoff roll? I can't think of any way that could happen.

My post was only to show that it could and did happen based on my
experience.

I appreciate your input. Still, the key phrase in Paul's post is "starting
its takeoff roll". Even in your example, there's no suggestion that the
smoke occurs at the START of the takeoff roll, as described by the person
who started this thread.

Pete

Ramapriya wrote:
What began as a question to ascertain the frequency of aircraft landing
from above another has turned (due to my poor verbiage, possibly) to
how smoke emerged from the 747's wheels on takeoff

Is it common to see planes commencing their takeoff roll before a
just-landed aircraft has fully turned off into the exit? That clearly
happened in the incident I wrote about too...

We don't care about the landing sequence or why two aircrafts had
posession of the runway Raj. We want to know why the tires smoked.
:^)

We don't care about the landing sequence or why two aircrafts had
posession of the runway Raj. We want to know why the tires smoked.

Because smoking is addictive, and the tires were watching too many
cigarette commercials. Big tobacco should pay the user fees.

Jose
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