Ever See a 777-200 Land in 7500'?

It's always impressive to see C-17s do their short takeoff and landing demos, not sure exact numbers but I think they do it in half that distance and are similar in size.

 

7500' is not a big deal for that plane. They land in Maui all the time. All depends on the weight? Boston's Logan rnwy 27 is only 7000 ft and we land jumbos there all the time.The brakes are amazing on jumbo jets. Assuming braking action is good, it is not a issue.
As far as him getting out of there? Not an issue!

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1/4 the distance when they are light. It was designed to carry an M1 tank and land on a 3000' unimproved strip. Impressive performance with blown flaps. 2700' landing distance when at max landing weight!

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Reminds me of watching Lew Wallick, Chief of Boeing Flight Test demonstrating the 727 in 1964 at Renton Airport. He had it down and stopped in 2500 feet from the blast fence at the south end of the field. We thought that it was going to drop out of the sky on its approach. It sort of did. 80 % thrust , 100 % dirty, and three clicks of nose up and a lot of skill.
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In the demo days of F-111s, the GD test pilots would wear suits and ties to demonstrate the aircraft had a capsule and fire and wind blast were not problems. At that time we had auxiliary flaps fitted (decommissioned quickly) that could only be used at 16 degrees of wingsweep. Basic airspeed was 116 kcas plus fuel weight (130 kcas later). For short field landing demonstrations, they would land with the anti-skid brakes already fully depressed and come to a full stop in less than 1500'. Big brakes, big tires, excellent high-lift/high drag devices, and low approach speed allowed such short landings. Any headwind helped, too.

Never tried it myself. Would have worked, but they would have hung you if anything went wrong. The Tornado has thrust reversers. Never got to try that either.

Taz
Terry Phillips