Overpowered aircraft

[SkyWestCRJPilot]

CRJ-700. Repositioning flight with 6000 pounds fuel. On takeoff, accidently select APR thrust on both engines.

HOLD ON!!!

I had a repo flight in the CRJ-700 too and it was quite a kick. We didn't go into APR thrust but on the roll it pushed us back in our seats. Pretty cool for a CRJ. I'd have to say the SR-71 is best. Put those engines on a CRJ and then you'd have a pretty nice airplane.

 

[Dangerkitty]

Fokker 100s used to have the 2nd highest thrust to weight ratio after the 757. Not sure now with a lot of newer Airbuses (new A330 and A340s) and Boeings (767-400, 777) out though.

Wrong. Jumpseating on the F-100 flightdeck more times than I care to remember I can state first hand that the F-100 has no where near the 2nd highest thrust to weight ratio.

Where do people come up with this stuff? The MD-80 blows the doors off the F-100 and that isn't saying very much.

Best Thrust to Weight Ratio Aircraft. Lear 60. Hands down.

 

[Snakum]

Cessna 120, no electrics, O235 ...


Bergenhiemer

 

[Metro752]

According to the specs on Boeing's website, the 717 beats out the 757 on thrust to weight ratio.

It's an MD95!

 

[cands]

Best Thrust to Weight Ratio Aircraft. Lear 60. Hands down.

lear 23, 24 +6000ft/min on t/o

 

[Dangerkitty]

lear 23, 24 +6000ft/min on t/o

The Lear 60 has a total of 9,200 lbs of thrust.
The max takeoff weight is 23,500 lbs.

I dont know how the Lear 23 and 24 compares but I am sure it is pretty close.

FWIW, we get 6000 ft per min on t/o all the time. The best I have ever seen is 15,000 ft per min on a cold night when we were light.

 

[ISaidRightTurns]

Where go the G5s fit in this? All I know is that I have seen them doing 2500 ft/min thru FL400 outta SAV with a flight plan to the west coast.

 

[Sgt. Hartman]

Note to 9GClub: There ain't no such thing as an over powered aircraft.

'Sled

Sure there is...anything with enough ba!!s to have an afterburner!

 

[9GClub]

How would you know how many G's you were pulling, if any, at the time? Do you have a big watch?

You betcha I do. Don't you? Mine's bigger than yours.

2 G's in a B752 is the same as 2 G's in a C150, and having executed more than a few steep turns (here we go again) in the latter, I am edumacatedly inferentially deductibly deducing that the linear acceleration value did not in fact reach 2.0.
I would say that I'm fallible and thus possibly incorrect, but what self-respecting pilot says that?

Anybody else wanna contest (or validate) the 1+ G thing? Any 757 drivers with big watches maybe?

 

[Wang Chung]

The Lear 60 has a total of 9,200 lbs of thrust.

I dont know how the Lear 23 and 24 compares but I am sure it is pretty close.

The noise-to-thrust ratio of the 20-series lears is much greater than that of the 60 (the Harley-Davidson factor, if you will).

 

[chriskcmo]

The old Convair 880's and 990's were rockets from what I've heard from old airline pilots. Handled like sports cars too

 

[NuGuy]

Hiya all,

Half full DC-9-10. It will max out the autopilot...

What a ride...no school like the old school...

Nu

 

[VNugget]

Any RC plane.

 

[FearlessFreep]

All these stories of "overpowered aircraft" with fantastic climb rates with low takeoff weights is nice, but what I would like to know is which Commercial Airliner has the highest thrust to weight ratio at MGTOW (Structural).

On a side note, the 74 Classic (GE powered) when light is pretty impressive. When you consider how much of a useful load range you have you might get an understanding how much excess thrust that is at light weights. When light at a max pitch angle of 17.5 degrees it will accelerate straight through normal departure profiles. That's with max reduced thrust for takeoff; I could not even venture a guess of what it would be like at max rated thrust!

 

[Flyeys]

CRJ-700. Repositioning flight with 6000 pounds fuel. On takeoff, accidently select APR thrust on both engines.

HOLD ON!!!

Accidently....Right.....

 

[DrewBlows]

FRJ
12,100#T/ 34524#W (heavy a/c gross, if memory serves me)=.35 ratio

Not to shabby, but throw on a straight, high aspect ratio wing and hold on.

I once saw 780 feet to FL310 (ceiling) in 17 minutes in a nearly full airplane flying the standard profile. I miss that airplane.

 

[Afterprop]

Imho

On a side note, the 74 Classic (GE powered) when light is pretty impressive.

I prefer the Pratt & Whitneys Qs. . . specifically, the JT9D-7Q And the lighter, the better. Can you say "Git up n go!"

Once upon a time, I was in Lear 35 that did 300 feet to FL 410 in around 11 minutes . . . cannot remember our takeoff weight, but a hop and skip we were airborne.

'Props

 

[FlyFlyFly]

What about those DC-8s with the big fans that UPS operates?

Anyone got the numbers on those?

 

[DAL737FO]

I know it's not a commercial airliner but the GIISP with a max take off weight of 62,000#s and 22,800#s thrust. Not to mention it will blow out all the windows within about six blocks with those low bypass RR's.

 

[gnx99]

The Lancair Propjet/Sentry will do 7,000 fpm "solo".

750 hp, 2200 lbs empty.

Not exactly in the airliner/corporate jet category, but it's still pretty sweet.