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G.R. Patterson III wrote:
The aircraft will accelerate most rapidly by keeping the wings nearly level and
keeping the nose or tail wheel off the ground, however, the plane will still
accelerate if the nose is held higher.

There are some jets that will rotate into a high drag configuration and
never gain enough speed to fly. I remember reading about an accident where
an inexperienced pilot (maybe a new owner of ex-Soviet equipment?) ran off
the end of the runway like that.

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Ben Jackson

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